Possible Indonesian Earthquake |
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Written by spacetravel.org
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Thursday, 09 June 2005 20:38 |
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John McCloskey and his colleagues at the University of Ulster in Coleraine, UK, believe a massive earthquake will hit the Indonesian islands south of Sumatra. After the tsunami-causing earthquake on December 26, 2004, McCloskey and his team correctly predicted that a second earthquake would hit Sumatra. This second quake, with a magnitude of 8.7, occurred on March 29, 2005. The team is now predicting a third earthquake based on calculations which show large increases in stress in the fault running underneath the Mentawai islands, south of Sumatra. The last time this fault ruptured, in 1833, it caused a large tsunami, as well as a major earthquake.
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