The item which I have pasted below is interesting and gives a whole new
angle to the earthquake!
shree venkatram


Earthquake: Coincidence or a Corporate Oil Tragedy?
December 28, 2004
By: Andrew Limburg
Independent Media TV
http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=10211&fcategory_desc=Envi
ronment

Now I don't claim to be an expert on seismic activity, but there has
been a series of events which led up to the 9.0 earthquake of the
coast of Indonesia which can not be ignored. This all could be an
enormous coincidence, but one must look at the information and choose
for themselves whether there is anything to it.
On November 28th, one month ago, Reuters reported that during a 3 day
span 169 whales and dolphins beached themselves in Tasmania, an island
of the southern coast of mainland Australia and in New Zealand. The
cause for these beachings is not known, but Bob Brown, a senator in
the Australian parliament, said "sound bombing" or seismic tests of
ocean floors to test for oil and gas had been carried out near the
sites of the Tasmanian beachings recently.

According to Jim Cummings of the Acoustic Ecology Institute, Seismic
surveys utilizing airguns have been taking place in mineral-rich areas
of the world's oceans since 1968. Among the areas that have
experienced the most intense survey activity are the North Sea, the
Beaufort Sea (off Alaska's North Slope), and the Gulf of Mexico; areas
around Australia and South America are also current hot-spots of
activity.

The impulses created by the release of air from arrays of up to 24
airguns create low frequency sound waves powerful enough to penetrate
up to 40km below the seafloor. The "source level" of these sound waves
is generally over 200dB (and often 230dB or more), roughly comparable
to a sound of at least 140-170dB in air.

According to the Australian Conservation Foundation, these 200dB -
230dB shots from the airguns are fired every 10 seconds or so, from 10
meters below the surface, 24 hours a day, for 2 week periods of time,
weather permitting.

These types of tests are known to affect whales and dolphins, whose
acute hearing and use of sonar is very sensitive.

On December 24th there was a magnitude 8.1 earthquake more than 500
miles southeast of Tasmania near New Zealand, with a subsequent
aftershock 6.1 a little later in the morning that same day.

On December 26th, the magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck at the
intersection of the Australian tectonic plate and the Indian tectonic
plate. This is the devastating tsunami tragedy that we have all heard
about in the Indian Ocean. The death toll of this horrific event has
reached 120,000 souls and continues to rise.

On December 27th, 20 whales beached themselves 110 miles west of
Hobart on the southern island state of Tasmania.

What is interesting about this is that the same place where the whale
beachings have been taking place over the last 30 days is the same
general area where the 8.1 Australian earthquake took place, and this
is the same area where they are doing these seismic tests. Then 2 days
after the Australian tectonic plate shifted, the 9.0 earthquake shook
the coast of Indonesia.

A great deal of interest and seismic testing has been taking place in
this area, as the government of Australia has given great tax breaks
to encourage the oil exploration.

Two Geologists that I spoke to felt that it was highly unlikely that
these seismic tests would have had enough energy to induce the
Australian quake. On the other hand there is strong evidence that
suggests that oil exploration activities have induced earthquakes in
the past.

Again, I don't claim to be an expert. I'm writing this story to bring
attention to some interesting facts, so that those who are experts can
investigate this fully.

We will be following up on this story as more information is gathered.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ramesh Kumar Sahani" <rameshrksahani@...>
To: <andamanicobar@...>
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: [andamanicobar] Half of total population of Car
Nicobarmissing:Ragupathy



Dear Sanjib
Thanks for the latest update. But , I feel some correction of the village
name is required for" Kamoto" , it may Kakana/ Kimmus/ Kinmai (Small
Lapathy)for Car Nicobar or Kamorta Island.
The mentioned villege by you as below:
These villages were Big Lapate, Small Lapate, Tamalu,
Parga, Malacca, Mus and "Kamoto.















On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 Sanjib Kumar Roy wrote :
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>hey
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>i am sanjib and a journalist working for india tv, UNI and Down to
>Earth from Andaman.... here i am sending a fresh report on andaman
>filed by ..... ankur one of my employees of UNI from Port Blair....
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>this mail is just for information and update.......
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>Half of total population of Car Nicobar missing: Ragupathy
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>Port Blair, Dec 29 ; Union Minister of State for Home S Regupathy
>today said at least half of the total population of Car Nicobar
>island was missing.
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>''Seven coastal villages in Car Nicobar were completely washed
>away,'' Mr Regupathy said here.
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>Mr Regupathy was speaking to newspersons after visiting Car Nicobar
>and other worst-effected islands in the Little Andaman areas,
>including Teresa, Chowria and Kachhal. Over 3,000 are feared to have
>been killed by quake and subsequent tsunami waves on Sunday. He was
>accompanied by Lt Governor of the Island Prof Ram Kapse.
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>About 1,500 to 2,000 people were believed to have been living on
>those villages. These villages were Big Lapate, Small Lapate, Tamalu,
>Parga, Malacca, Mus and Kamoto.
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>''We have also seen that one island have been divided into two
>somehere in Little Nicobar,'' he said.
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>All out efforts were going on jointly by the Army, Navy, Air Force
>along with civil administration in all the worst affected areas, Mr
>Regupathy said.
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>He said massive dislocation of infrastructural facilities and
>destruction of jetties in most of the islands had made it a harculian
>task for the administration.
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>Asked about the continued confusion about the exact figures of the
>dead, missing and the injured, the Union minister said, ''Though
>there were only confirmed official deaths of 309 people, including
>two senior government officials, we are still in dark about 5,000 odd
>people, who were still missing even after three days of the tsuanmi
>fury. But we are hopeful that many of them would soon be traced and
>accounted for.'' He, however, refused to make any comment about the
>death figure of 3,000 and about 6,000-8,000 of missing persons given
>by the Army and the state police administration and agreed that such
>confusions do happen in a natural disaster of this magnitude.
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>Asked whether any international aid was being sought to overcome the
>crisis, the Lt Governor said, ''We may need it after 15 days or after
>three weeks to intensify the relief operations.'' Presently, the
>contributions coming from different state governments were adequate
>and enough to tide over the crisis, Prof Kapse said.
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>''We are getting enough supply of packed food and water for supplying
>to the people in the affected areas,'' he said.
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>In many places these supplies were being reached by means of air
>dropping.
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>However, despite our all out efforts we are still yet to reach in
>some of the remote islands, he said.
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Ramesh Sahani
Asstt.Anthropologist(Physical)
Anthropological Survey of India
NERC Mawlaei, Madanrting Shillong
Ph:091 364 537285,86


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