March 28 Quake & Tsunami

[David]

The USGS reports there was a tsunami from the mammoth quake three days ago. (In the hours after the quake when no onsite reports indicated tsunami occurrence, a lot of scientists thought that was extremely unusual for a subduction zone quake M8.5 or higher NOT to have generated one -- a quake that size of that type will almost certainly generate one.)

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2005/usweax/

If poor Sumatra gets hit by any more tsunamis any time soon, it's going to become the Lost Country of Atlantis.