In Reply to: 1/810000th as strong as the big one posted by cliff on Tuesday, 1. March 2005 at 23:22 Bali Time:
Hi Cliff,
there was a calculated correction of the quake in front of Aceh from 9.0 to 9.3 on the richter scale, it was the second strongest quake since beginning of registration, only off the shore of Chile there was a sea-quake with 9.5 on the richter scale once.
British scientists have presented a 3D-computer model from the ground of the sea last week, based on the registerd data from the 26th Dec, they showed the movement of the ground, 3000 meter high mountains and 3000 meter deep valleys were the result of the incident - ingredible !
The energy of quake was equal to 1 mio nuclear bombs.
The scientists stated also, a quake stronger than 9.5 would be impossible due the geological structure of our earth.
regards
Thorsten