Tsunami the next big wave:the grandaddy of them allWritten by Roseanne van Langenberg
TSUNAMI<IMG height=12 src="/the2.jpg" alt="repparttar "> next big wave:<IMG height=12 src="/the2.jpg" alt="repparttar 110077"> Grandaddy of them all TSUNAMI next big wave: Grandaddy of them allCopyright 2005 Marketing Defined. All Rights Reserved. A few days ago on Melbourne's 60 Minutes, renowned scientist Dr Kerry Sieh predicted that an earthquake and ensuing next big wave or giant Tsunami will definitely happen, and it will be Grandaddy of them all Indonesia gets full force this time around ... When?... whether it be in a few months, or in a decade is what he cannot accurately predict at this present moment. Dr Sieh, a Geology professor at California Institute of Technology, knows Indonesia's earthquake zone like back of his hand ... ..and he did in fact predict first earthquake that hit parts of Indonesia on Boxing Day. Now he predicts another Tsunami will hit, and this will be grandaddy of them all! From Melbourne MSN Channel 9's Sixty Minutes Richard Carleton explains why earthquakes and ensuing Tsunami's occur: RICHARD CARLETON: Dr Sieh's focus is on faultline, 5000km long, where moving plates of earth's crust grind against each other. The plate under Indian Ocean slides beneath Indonesia, much like disappearing stairs on an escalator. But some sections get stuck and then later snap upwards, releasing gargantuan force. DR KERRY SIEH: The plates get hung up and they can't slip past each other, so upper plate gets dragged down as this plate sinks and with it, islands get dragged down, slowly but surely, and when earthquake happens, they pop back up and out. RICHARD CARLETON: And that's what happened last Boxing Day. The quake jolted mainland so violently that people were thrown to ground. What a pointless waste of life! ... Dr Sieh warned governments concerned ahead of time .. he personally went down and alerted inhabitants of affected villages in Indonesia to protect themselves against Tsunami he just knew would happen ... but nobody paid any attention to him ... now when he walks into these same villages, he is welcomed and treated as a hero ! From his 14 satellite research station, high in mountain tops of humid Indonesian jungle, Dr Sieh now predicts next Tsunami will hit:
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