30 September 2009
Posted by Dan Satterfield
Sumatra was hit by a magnitude 7.7 quake at 10:18 GMT this Wednesday morning. This quake was on a different fault zone and was likely not related to yesterday’s quake in Samoa.
Here is a seismogram from Washington State in the USA. The seismograph picked up the quake from half a world away.
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.
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I live in Malaysia and even here the quake is felt. Wow.