Tsunami warning

Post by **tuktukmike** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 2:34 pm

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakin ... d=20002519

Urgent: Disaster centre issue warning of possible tsunami by undersea volcano

The National Disaster Warning Centre issued an urgent warning asking the people to monitor announcements from the centre constantly following 31 earthquakes under the Andaman Sea off Ranong's coast.

The centre issued an announcement on TV saying 31 earthquakes measured at 4.0 to 5.3 on Richter scale happened on the seedbed about 400 to 600 kilometres west of Ranong's coast.

It said the number of the quakes was irregular and the epicenter was at the fault which was undersea mountains and had lave seeping out.

The centre said the quakes could lead to a formation of a new undersea volcano, which could cause tsunamis if the volcano exploded.

Read this link.

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/zoom/events ... &lat=11.93

Mike.

Post by **Mart** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 9:56 pm

I did my visa trip to Ranong this morning, I thought we had a bad trip (buses not turning up - when one did we had to stand up for 2 hours, immigration packed etc). Good job I didn't know about the earthquakes too. I'm drinking too much as it is.

Mart

Post by **Jaime** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 10:06 pm

Just in case any Hua-Hinners are wondering what the seismic activity on the Gulf of Thailand side of the peninsula is like, then check this out:

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