Another Earthquake(8.2) and possible Tsunami in Indonesia

[BlueCrush]

There is a report of a 8.2 earthquake/aftershock off the coast of Sumatra. It is 11:30 at night there, most people are sleeping and another Tsunami may be headed their way. Authorities are trying to get warnings out but is is difficult due to the destruction of the last Tsunami. Hopefully there will not be one. There has been too much destruction and loss of live in that region of the world.

[bud_one]

That sucks big time....

[Stang2Vibe]

I was glad to see that no tsunami was created by this. However, it was still sad to see that thousands of people were killed from the effects of the earthquake itself.I saw on the news that North America has a faultline off its' coast in the Pacific that is very similar to the one in Indonesia that has been causing all this destruction lately. Our faultline runs from northern CA all the way up to Canada and threatens our west coast. They said that we have a few buoys in the ocean that are packed with equipment to monitor for a North American tsunami, but they recently found that 2 of them were inoperative. They're in the process of replacing them and want to add more of them. The news report brought up a good point that I was wondering about. They asked the scientists at the observatory that monitors this stuff how much of an advanced warning people would have if these buoys detected a tsunami headed our way. They said that people in the coastal areas would only have about 15 minutes warning, and most people who would be affected by the massive wave who live beyond the coast would have about 30 minutes warning. That kinda makes me wonder about how useful this actually is. It's certainly better than nothing, though.