Indonesian quake strike-slip type - tsunami unlikely

Extract fromlohud.comnews ontheIndonesianearthquake.


Roger Musson, seismologist during the British geological consult who has studied Sumatra's fault lines, says the temblor was the strike-slip quake, not the thrust quake. In the strike slip quake, the earth moves horizontally rsther than than vertically and doesn't displace large volumes of water.


"When we primary saw this was an 8.7 nearby Sumatra, we was fearing the worst," he said, observant the single of the primary reported magnitudes for the quake. "But as soon as we detected what type of trembler it was, afterwards we felt the lot better."
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