On Dec 29, 2004, at 7:39 AM, David Marjanovic wrote:
The 9.0-magnitude quake struck 6 miles beneath the ocean
I thought it was 8.9 (isn't 9.0 about, like, half again as strong as 8.9?), and I thought it was 25 km = 15.6 miles beneath the surface?
The quake shoved the entire island of Sumatra about 100 feet to the southwest.
Incredible indeed. But it's the expected direction. Subduction in one huge jump...
I wonder when we'll hear anything about Australia or Madagascar, let alone the Nicobar and Andaman islands? And is the Malacca Strait shallow enough to have stopped the wave before Singapore -- which is sort of at the end of the funnel?
Oh, uh... dinosaurs. Dinosaurs! I agree that *Dilong* is the most "important" discovery of the year. *Rugops* does deserve some mention for being Africa's first named abelisaur, but that's it.