Wednesday, January 05, 2005

US blamed for tsunamis - Give me a Break!!

US blamed for tsunamis and they wonder why we shake our heads and mutter "nutters"? These sick individuals need serious counseling or a quick way off the planet... whatever is the most expedient. My vote goes to the latter option...
Maybe they should read up about what the topography around Diego Garcia is, another group of islands also came of lightly compared to other places was the Maldives due to the same reason, by the way the Maldives are on average only 1 metre above sealevel whereas Diego is up to 15 metres... Also what must be borne in mind is that contrary to the general perception the waves from the Tsunami were not concentric in nature at all but more like two crecents diagonal to the epicentre, as shown on modeling on the web. This is due to the fact that the area of slippage of the earth's crust was estimated to be 1000 kilometres long. These crecents had their main force focused if you will on Sumatra to the east and Siri Lanka to the west, places like Madagascar were only affected by a slightly abnormal tide pattern...
Some links:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/io.html

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