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...seismologists, the quake was a strong indication that the Sumatran fault has entered an intensely unstable period. On March 17, little more than a week before the earthquake struck, Professor John McCloskey of the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland published a paper in the scientific weekly Nature, arguing that the Dec. 26 quake had not relieved the stress on the tectonic plates in the area. In fact, McCloskey's team of seismologists found, the pressure had shifted farther south along the fault lines. The paper concluded that the chance of another major earthquake in the area, perhaps one capable...
...Nias, which sits near a fault line, no early-warning system is likely to be fast enough. Last week, 30-year-old construction consultant Yason Waru and his cousin Darni were sifting through the pile of rubble that was once their house. Built just a year ago, it was reduced to a 3-m-high heap of bricks, zinc roofing and chunks of cement in less than five minutes. "When the quake hit we had no time to save anything but ourselves," says Waru. Certainly, they received no earthquake warning from local officials. Because the reality is, it's still...
...where the India Plate, the Australia Plate, the Sunda Plate and the Burma Micro-Plate collide and dive beneath one another. Earthquakes tend to occur in clusters in subduction zones, and McCloskey says his initial findings indicate that the latest quake has accentuated the stress along the Sunda Trench fault for another 300 km south. The result is like the steady growth of a crack in a car windshield. "We don't know if this means another quake is imminent," says McCloskey. "But the stresses are still very much alive in the area...
...last earthquakes to occur near the newly stressed area south of last week's temblor were in 1797 and 1833?meaning quakes could be primed to occur again soon. There's no way to tell when an earthquake will strike?scientists can measure the stress on a fault, but they don't know how much force it can bear. Still, two massive quakes in quick succession are a reminder of how little the earth under and around Sumatra can be trusted...