Eastern Indonesian Earthquake

mzkhadir

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Headline: Magnitude 7.7 quake rocks eastern Indonesia, U.S. Geological Survey says

From yahoo news:
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A magnitude-7.7 undersea earthquake rocked eastern Indonesia early Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There was no danger of a tsunami.

The earthquake occurred about 120 miles south of Moluccas, the USGS said. It occurred at a depth of 212 miles.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said no destructive tsunami threat existed.

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Reggae4k

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Originally posted by: Beau
depth of 212 miles!! hahahahahahaha Someone is smoking crack, Deepest point is 36,200 ft or 7 miles ;)

earthquakes can develop much deeper than just the crust of the earth's surface, genius...
 

purbeast0

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Originally posted by: Reggae4k
Originally posted by: Beau
depth of 212 miles!! hahahahahahaha Someone is smoking crack, Deepest point is 36,200 ft or 7 miles ;)

earthquakes can develop much deeper than just the crust of the earth's surface, genius...

bahaha you beat me to it ...

pwned.
 

Drakkon

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Originally posted by: Beau
depth of 212 miles!! hahahahahahaha Someone is smoking crack, Deepest point is 36,200 ft or 7 miles ;)

lol EARTHquakes dont occure in water :confused:
 

FoBoT

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Originally posted by: Beau
depth of 212 miles!! hahahahahahaha Someone is smoking crack, Deepest point is 36,200 ft or 7 miles ;)

the earthquake occurs in the earth's crust, not in the ocean

the earth is ~8000 miles diameter? or something like that? the quake happened 212 miles down into the crust, the water doesn't count, unless it was a waterquake, but it says earthquake
 

Reggae4k

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Originally posted by: Nithin
Originally posted by: Beau
depth of 212 miles!! hahahahahahaha Someone is smoking crack, Deepest point is 36,200 ft or 7 miles ;)

what deepest point? when you hit the bottom of the sea? hypocenter can refer to a point inside the earth. so yes, it could be 212 miles. at least thats how i understood it. i'm not an expert. :p

http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=hypocentral&gwp=16


well at least we know that it is he that is smoking crack... and not the scientists.
 

Baked

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Originally posted by: Beau
depth of 212 miles!! hahahahahahaha Someone is smoking crack, Deepest point is 36,200 ft or 7 miles ;)

It occurred under the surface of the sea floor, not in the water like your crack smoking head imagined. The earth has a diameter of 7,926 miles, 212 miles is barely under the crust.
 

Beau

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Hey, it just said an under sea earthquake, not a sub sea surface. :p Yes, I know earthquakes are under ground, but they should've probably phrased it differently so the geologically impaired like me understand better. I r smart, ok! ;)
 

ElFenix

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Originally posted by: purbeast0
Originally posted by: Reggae4k
Originally posted by: Beau
depth of 212 miles!! hahahahahahaha Someone is smoking crack, Deepest point is 36,200 ft or 7 miles ;)

earthquakes can develop much deeper than just the crust of the earth's surface, genius...

bahaha you beat me to it ...

pwned.

do all of you have graphics turned off or do you simply not see that ;) at the end of the post?
 

Beau

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Originally posted by: ElFenix
Originally posted by: purbeast0
Originally posted by: Reggae4k
Originally posted by: Beau
depth of 212 miles!! hahahahahahaha Someone is smoking crack, Deepest point is 36,200 ft or 7 miles ;)

earthquakes can develop much deeper than just the crust of the earth's surface, genius...

bahaha you beat me to it ...

pwned.

do all of you have graphics turned off or do you simply not see that ;) at the end of the post?

Nono.. .I'm truely a dumbass. It's ok.