Java had a 3 meter (9 ft) Tsunami! Why they hell isn't it on the news?

[originalpckelly]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2006_Java_earthquake

I only knew about it by going to fucking Wikipedia!

[stop the bleeding]

1. try DU's LBN

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2394585

was posted sometime this morning about 5 hrs ago - via CNN

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. you could have found out by visiting LBN

:hi:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2394585

[Xenotime]

3. has anyone died?...and...

how sad is it that you can get more news from the Wikipedia than you do the Right wing news

[benburch]

4. Look here...

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

[CottonBear]

5. CNN Headline News reported it early this morning. n/t

[gristy]

6. The NY Times has it

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Indonesia-Earthquake.html

[Warpy]

7. I tuned in this morning to get the local weather

and heard a bit about it on NBC.

Maybe Pox isn't the proper station to watch if you want to learn anything that's really going on in the world?

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[malaise]

8. It's on BBC

over 30 dead so far and several hotels destroyed on the Java coast.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5186844.stm
add link

[LostinVA]

9. It's all over the US media

[soothsayer]

10. Bad seismic window July 10-17 due to perigee and the recent

full moon. Jim Berkland (very accurate earthquake predictor) called for a 7+ during this time, and nailed it (unfortunately).

[benburch]

12. Interesting.

What is his accuracy percentage, do you know?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

16. No better than randomly selecting dates and magnitudes. n/t

[benburch]

17. Thanks!

I wondered about that.

[soothsayer]

18. He claims an 80% accuracy rate, actually.

And he does post his predictions well ahead of time.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

21. He claims a lot of things...

...that he has never been able to publish in a peer reviewed journal due to the fact that he is not predicting earthquakes.

[stop the bleeding]

14. this is interesting - is there a link to a site

for this information?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

15. The above is nonsense.

Berkland is a loon. He's geology's version of an astrologer.

[soothsayer]

19. Oh, blah, once science slowwwwly comes around to understand

why he's right, I'm sure you'll apologize (not)

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

20. Science has attempted to understand "why" he is "right."

And has determined:

1) His method makes no geophysical sense.

2) He is not, in actuality, predicting earthquakes at all.

[JCMach1]

11. just heard 47 dead so far

:(

[seemslikeadream]

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