Newsstand - Indonesia Tsunami Area Hit with 8.2 Quake

CBS Radio just reported that a magnitude 8.2 quake hit the same area of Indonesia that the 9.0 quake in December generated the devastating tsunami.

All the news sites are still loading their pages, so no links yet.

Update: the epicenter was 260 miles offshore from Banda Ashar (sic), Indonesia.

Sounds like another tsunami may have hit Phuket too... my phone's ringing off the hook from friends up in the mountains. sounds like everyone's ok.

Good thing it's midnight here. No one at the beach.

I hope the people in Indonesia fared ok... how terrible : - (

Any more info CNN is clueless here as far as on the ground reporting goes. Was there an actually Tsunami wave?

It's been felt all over the region, people even running out of Hotels and high rises in Singapore and KL.

All the news on my TV is in Thai... and calls outbound are misconnecting or going to voicemail.

Still trying to find out what I can... will add relevant info when I have some.

Yeah I am getting local Thai tv via wwitv.com of course I don't read or speak Thai :(. Still not seeing any devastation from the earthquake itself, and not seeing anything from the other TV stations in the region. The person from the Pacific Tsnumai Warning Center said a wave is likely to move to the south from this one, those on the Northern Coast of Australia may want to be alert, then again he was just speculating. :confused:

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=4UUONV2ZQMAEYCRBAEZSF EY?type=topNews&storyID=8014383

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A massive 8.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Sumatra Monday close to where a quake triggered a tsunami that left nearly 300,000 people dead or missing across Asia, residents and officials said.

I heard a report on the radio that the intensity may have been 8.5 on the Richter scale :eek: ....don't know if that's true or not.

I also heard that the government of Sri Lanka has warned about
"an impending disaster." Do they actually know whether or not
a tsunami is heading their way?

I heard a report on the radio that the intensity may have been 8.5 on the Richter scale :eek: ....don't know if that's true or not.

I also heard that the government of Sri Lanka has warned about
"an impending disaster." Do they actually know whether or not
a tsunami is heading their way?
Keep in mind that an 8.5 is nowhere near a 9.3 it's 20-30X less powerful. I doubt Sri Lanka has any hard evidence that a Tsnumai is heading there way, they didn't in December, I doubt they had the oppurtunity to install a warning system since theb.

TV feeds look pretty dry in Phuket. Beach and Bangla road almost deserted. Traffic jams and people waiting on the neighbouring hills. Still no calls outbound to friends.

2am here... I'm sure more info to come, but that's it for me at the moment.

Live feeds from the water look calm as ever.

It's now been upgraded once again, to 8.7.

Yes, I realize that an 8.2 event doesn't have the energy
of the 9.3 on December 26th, but it still has the capability,
or the possibility, of generating tsunamis. I guess we
will have to see what happens in the coming hours.

I lived in California for quite a few years, and an 8 point
anything in a populated area would be a calamity.

Aside from magnitude a quake needs to be fairly shallow in order to generate a tsunami of any force. In addition the direction of the movement needs to have a significant up/down component. This one was only 30km deep and was on a near vertical fault (nearly the same movement and depth as the 12/26 quake) so one would expect a tsunami, but as of yet none has been reported.

Most of coastal Thailand, KL, Singapore, etc would have been shielded by Sumatra had a wave actually formed.