New tremor rocks Indian islands
Monday, December 27, 2004 Posted: 10:17 AM EST (1517 GMT)
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CUDDALORE, India (AP) -- A fresh tremor hit Indian islands far off the country's eastern coast Monday, a day after massive waves triggered by an undersea quake in Indonesia killed nearly 3,000 people in India.
In addition, Sunday's quake may have claimed about 3,000 lives on remote Car Nicobar island in the Bay of Bengal, the region's police chief S.B. Deol said in an interview with New Delhi Television network.
He said all the villages and the road along Car Nicobar's coast were washed away. The island is one of the more than 500 Andaman and Nicobar Islands, about 1,500 kilometers (915 miles) east of India's mainland.
"We have reports that maybe 3,000 people are dead and a large number are missing and are feared to be dead" in Car Nicobar, Deol said.
If the deaths are confirmed, it would dramatically raise India's death toll. The Home Ministry's official death tally totaled 2,958, with the waves killing 2,375 people in Tamil Nadu state alone.
Meanwhile, a fresh quake Monday in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands had a magnitude of 6.0, said Jaya Chandran of the Indian Meteorology Department. Details of casualties and damage from that quake were not immediately known, Chandran said.
India was trying to recover Monday from massive waves unleashed the previous day by the 9.0-magnitude quake in Indonesia -- the world's biggest in 40 years.
The air force and coast guard used planes, helicopters and ships to deliver food and generators to ruined coastal areas, and to search for survivors.
Tamil Nadu was India's worst-hit state, with waves sweeping away boats, homes and vehicles, said the state's top elected official, Chief Minister Jayaram Jayalalithaa.
"It's an extraordinary calamity of such colossal proportions that the damage has been unprecedented," she said in a statement.
"It all seems to have happened in the space of 20 minutes," she said. "A massive tidal wave of extreme ferocity ... smashed everything in sight to smithereens."
Tamil Nadu's beaches resembled open-air mortuaries as fishermen's bodies washed ashore, and retreating waters left behind others killed inland.
Sea water flooded the streets of Cuddalore town, flipping over dozens of cars and leaving some vehicles perched atop road dividers or floating in the roads like boats.
"My heart goes out in sympathy to all those families who have lost their dear ones due to this tragedy," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in a televised statement.
Residents of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh state spoke of four-meter (12-foot) walls of water slamming into the shore.
"I was shocked to see innumerable fishing boats flying on the shoulder of the waves, going back and forth into the sea, as if made of paper," said P. Ramanamurthy, 40, who lives in Andhra Pradesh's Kakinada town.
New Quake where the 9.0 quake hit..
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wthrmilagro wrote:Stephanie wrote:There's still thousands missing. It's going to get much worse I'm afraid.
A 6.0 magnitude is one heck of an after-shock!
Steph, it is not an aftershock, this one is brand new...
What's the difference between an after shock and an earthquake after a major earthquake? Weren't they both in the same area?
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yoda wrote:It is an aftershock. Stephanie is correct.
No it is not an aftershock. Totally Different location.
map 2.8 2004/12/27 18:06:08 52.882 -166.519 10.0 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
map 2.6 2004/12/27 16:48:51 36.471 -121.041 1.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
map 3.2 2004/12/27 15:05:05 38.325 -115.134 0.0 NEVADA
MAP 5.8 2004/12/27 14:46:45 12.356 92.502 10.0 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
MAP 5.1 2004/12/27 11:57:53 8.068 92.285 10.0 NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
MAP 5.4 2004/12/27 10:46:46 13.585 93.074 10.0 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
MAP 5.2 2004/12/27 10:46:36 13.632 93.102 10.0 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
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yoda wrote:wthrmilagro wrote:yoda wrote:It is an aftershock. Stephanie is correct.
No it is not an aftershock. Totally Different location.
Ok then... where was the location? It has been proven that aftershocks can go on for days after the actual earthquake.... but perhaps I am wrong.
I lived in California for over 25 years, until I moved recently. Aftershocks normally occur around the epicenter or relatively close by. USGS classifies this as a new quake.
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Meanwhile, a fresh quake Monday in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands had a magnitude of 6.0, said Jaya Chandran of the Indian Meteorology Department. Details of casualties and damage from that quake were not immediately known, Chandran said.
Okay, it does state in the article that it's considered a "fresh" quake.
My original statement a$$umed (
) that it was related to the original one and therefore an aftershock. Thanks for the explanations guys! However, it's too coincidental for it to be relatively close to the original area that they aren't all somehow related, IMHO. At any rate, this is so tragic! 
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wthrmilagro wrote:yoda wrote:wthrmilagro wrote:yoda wrote:It is an aftershock. Stephanie is correct.
No it is not an aftershock. Totally Different location.
Ok then... where was the location? It has been proven that aftershocks can go on for days after the actual earthquake.... but perhaps I am wrong.
I lived in California for over 25 years, until I moved recently. Aftershocks normally occur around the epicenter or relatively close by. USGS classifies this as a new quake.
If the USGS says it's not an aftershock, then it's not.
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