Saturday, January 01, 2005

Did a big rock fall from the sky?

As more scientific information begins to become
available relating to the events surrounding the
9.0 earthquake off of the Northern Coast of
Sumatra on December 26th, it is being reported
that the depth was 10km. More importantly
perhaps are the growing signs surrounding this
event that rather than being caused by internal
earth dynamics, as is being widely reported, it
was instead caused by an extraterrestrial event,
a meteorite strike into the ocean having come
from the Southern Hemispheric skies.

Not likely. Take a look at the seismic history of
the area.

Now, examine this map.

It should be fairly easy to spot a crater from the
air in what appears to be shallow water, assuming
the quake was properly located. (Yellow star)
The water could be quite murky so it might be a
good idea to wait a while.

I have little doubt that meteorites have hit the
ocean somewhere in the past, causing huge tsunamis
much larger than the one in Sumatra. Velikovsky
made a good case for that even tho I disagree with
a close pass by Venus as the cause.

Big rocks traveling at high speeds thrown into ponds
make big waves.

It ain't rock science.

All us kids know that.

I'd say tectonic plate theory is still safe,
no matter what the dude above says.