India Issues a Tsunami Alert.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

Tsunami warning sends thousands fleeing Indian coastline

9 minutes ago South Asia - AFP
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1535&ncid=731&e=2&u=/afp/20041230/wl_sthasia_afp/quakeasiaindiawarn



NAGAPATTINAM, India (AFP) - A government warning that high waves could strike again sent thousands fleeing in panic from the coastline of southern India, correspondents reported.


"The waves are coming," people yelled as they fled on foot, buses and any mode of transport they could find.

[Bouncy Ball]

1. Oh geez

no way!!! AGAIN????? What is going on???? I don't watch TV news so maybe I am not as up on this as others are. I only read some sources on LBN and others.....are there still earthquakes?

[antigone382]

2. Probably aftershocks, or warnings of aftershocks

Aftershocks are expected in an Earthquake, espy one this big. In this case, aftershocks will probably cause more tidal waves.

[antigone382]

3. Another link to an AP story

(snip)
India Warns Residents of Fresh Tsunamis

NAGAPPATTINAM, India (AP) -- Authorities in southern India warned residents in coastal areas to evacuate Thursday, saying there could be fresh tsunamis.

"We have issued an alert. There could be a wave attack in the next one hour," said Veera Shanmuga Mani, the top administrator in Nagappattinam, a coastal town in southern Tamil Nadu state where most of the deaths from the weekend tsunamis occurred.

It was unclear what sparked the warning, but two aftershocks hit islands off of India's eastern coast Thursday morning, the Indian Meteorological Department said earlier.

A moderate earthquake, measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale, struck the Greater Nicobar island at 02:43 a.m. Two hours later, another earthquake of the same intensity hit the Little Nicobar island.

(more)

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/INDIA_TSUNAMI_WARNING?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

[Miami Liberal]

4. Atleast they're being cautious this time

They could've warned the people in Thailand but didn't.

[BeTheChange]

5. Is there anyone besides me watching the quakes?

What do you think about the 5.6 in the mid atlantic? Its been quiet over there for awhile.

I know alot of the things on this list are aftershocks but it is amazing how you can watch them move up and down the plates if you track the coordinates. Half the ring of fire has woken up.

http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/redpuma/redpuma_ami_list.html

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

Some earthquake general history and data:
http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/neis/eqlists/eqstats.html

[BeTheChange]

6. 68 shocks, aftershocks.. whatnot

and other burps all over the world today.