ASIA TSUNAMI EVENT DEPTH ONLY 2.5 MI (METEOR IMPACT?) *PIC*

by Geneticus, Thursday, December 30, 2004, 03:11

The image at the bottom of the page is a deep ocean bouy that gives an early warning of tsunami threat. Accordind to the Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART) organization, these bouys are mounted to the sea floor. This fact becomes an important piece of the puzzle as we procede through an exercise in simple logic and mathmatics to determine the ocean depth at the point of the tsunami as compared to the depth of the EQ event. I find it interesting to notice how the exact depth of the ocean at the event site has been left out of every news report.

(http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/Dart/dart.shtml)

According to the latest reports from Bloomberg.com, the depth of the earthquake is reported to have been 10 kilometers, which is 6.21 miles.

(http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000100&sid=axRkxzJXr4Q0&refer=germany)

According to Sify News, a new early warning system will be deployed in the area of the Indian ocean to detect tsunami threats. If the system is anything like the existing systems, it will also be mounted to the ocean floor. Sify News states the new system will be deployed at a depth of "6 kilometers under the Indan Ocean." That is an ocean depth of 3.73 miles. So we know the ocean water accounts for the first 60% of the event depth as reported.

(http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13639252)

Crunch the numbers and you come up with an EQ event depth of only 2.5 miles beneath the ocean floor! Only 2.5 miles...this makes me very curious indeed as to the true nature of this gargantuan earth movement.

Compare the event depth of this EQ-tsunami event to some other tsunami-generating EQ events...

Unimak, Alaska - 4/1/1946: depth 25km / 15.53 miles
Kamchatka, Russia - 11/4/1952: depth 30km / 18.64 miles
Chile - 5/22/1960: depth 33km / 20.51 miles
Prince William Sound, Alaska - 3/27/1964: depth 23km / 14.29 miles
Peru - 10/17/1966: depth 60km / 37.28 miles
Mexico - 9/19/1985: depth 17km / 10.56 miles
Vanimo, New Guinea - 7/17/1999: depth 32km / 19.88 miles
Kocaeli, Turkey - 8/17/1999: depth 17km / 10.56 miles
Vanuatu, SW Pacific - 11/26/1999: depth 33km / 20.51 miles
Honshu, Japan - 9/5/2004: depth 14km / 8.7 miles

(http://www.drgeorgepc.com/index.html)

In fact, this most recent event is the least shallow EQ-tsunami event that I have found, so far.

A scientist can shift a decimal here, push a digit there, and I am confident the depth can be fudged down a few miles. All calculations have a margin of error. In my opinion, the chances are not remote that this event actually occured directly on or very near the ocean floor. This is where the logic ends and supposition begins...but I'd say there is a possibility that a meteor or comet impact event caused this EQ and tidal wave based on the the fact that it was relatively near to the ocean floor. The reason for fudging the numbers would be to avoid widespread panic about any remaining and pending impact events on the horizon, as well as surpressing the curiosity of the general public in regards to threats to Earth from approaching space objects.