7.7 Earthquake in Sumatra,Indonesia

[cycloneye]

Oh boy,those big ones keep occuring around the world.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... 10utc5.php

Tsunami watch in effect.

http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/?region=3& ... .06.222245

Magnitude 7.8
Date-Time Tuesday, April 06, 2010 at 22:15:02 UTC
Wednesday, April 07, 2010 at 05:15:02 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 2.236°N, 97.046°E
Depth 46 km (28.6 miles)
Region NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
Distances 205 km (125 miles) WNW of Sibolga, Sumatra, Indonesia
230 km (145 miles) SW of Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia
525 km (325 miles) W of KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia
1425 km (880 miles) NW of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 7.4 km (4.6 miles); depth +/- 11.6 km (7.2 miles)
Parameters NST= 58, Nph= 63, Dmin=330.6 km, Rmss=0.81 sec, Gp= 58°,
M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=6

[WeatherLovingDoc]

This earthquake occurred deeper in the earth than the tragic Boxing Day 2004 event. So sorry for the Sumatrans, they must be terribly frightened.

I must admit, I'm wondering a bit about all these earth wide quakes too. So many, and quite a few so seismically large.

[Cyclenall]

Funny enough, I was just looking at the wiki article on the Baja earthquake less than two days ago and then at the bottom where the 2010 earthquakes are listed in the earthquake template box, there was 7.8 (now 7.7??) listed for Sumatra. By now we should be ahead of schedule I would think with this many occurring (quite strong ones) so close together. This is like the 2nd strongest of 2010 thus far.

[cycloneye]

Downgraded to 7.7.

Magnitude 7.7
Date-Time Tuesday, April 06, 2010 at 22:15:02 UTC
Wednesday, April 07, 2010 at 05:15:02 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 2.360°N, 97.132°E
Depth 31 km (19.3 miles) set by location program
Region NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
Distances 200 km (125 miles) WNW of Sibolga, Sumatra, Indonesia
215 km (135 miles) SW of Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia
515 km (320 miles) W of KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia
1425 km (880 miles) NW of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 4.8 km (3.0 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters NST=240, Nph=240, Dmin=317.9 km, Rmss=1.08 sec, Gp= 29°,
M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=7

[HURAKAN]

This part of the world gets no relief. Poor people.

[Gustywind]

it's simply amazing once again this especially this year, A-W-E-S-O-M-E
Something interresting to note:
This feature came during the anniversary of another huge earthquake 6.3 who has occured in Italy there's one year ago, day to day, what a symbolic!