Earthquake at Rodrigues Island
Breaking News: There has been an earthquake at around 08:25 today at Rodrigues Island which is just a few km away from Mauritius. The earthquake lasted for about 1 minute and there is no report of any casualties or damage for now.
Mauritius Meteorological station has just confirmed this earthquake of magnitude 5.3 (with a whole one hour of lateness as usual!). The earthquake occurred at about 146 km to the East South East of Rodrigues Island and 740 km East of Mauritius.
Update: Minor additional quakes are reported for 09:00 – The Mauritius Meteorological Station has not yet confirmed this one. The earthquake was at about 10 km deep.
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Edited by Kurt Avish on Dec 02, 2009 | 862 views
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Earthquake at Rodrigues Island – Island Crisis (blog) http://bit.ly/5aQ5nb
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IC Post: Earthquake at Rodrigues Island http://www.islandcrisis.net/2009/12/earthquake-rodrigues-island/
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RT @kurtavish: IC Post: Earthquake at Rodrigues Island http://www.islandcrisis.net/2009/12/earthquake-rodrigues-island/
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Rodrigues Earthquake updated: http://bit.ly/8pARaG – Earthquake noticed mostly at Port Mathurin buildings.
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I heard this on the radio this morning.
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Those who want immediate information about earthquakes in or around Mauritius should know that there is NO agency responsible for this. The responsibility should lie with a Geological Body.
However as soon the info came on the seismometer of the Met Service(MMS) , there need to be a computation and verification of all parameters.
After this within only 15 minutes the authorities who need to be informed were informed.
The MMS has the duty to warn of possible tsunamis. No warning can be given before an earthquake at least not in Mauritius.
So let there be no more palabres on this.
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Kurt Avish Reply:
December 2nd, 2009 at 4:15 PM
Thank you for the precision! However no one mentioned about “predicting” an earthquake. The amateurism (as always of the Mauritius Meteorological Station) was the lateness with which the public was informed of this event. The earthquake occurred at precisely 08:20:37 – Mauritian learned about it at around 09:05 via Radio Plus after someone from Rodrigues called the Radio to inform about the quake felt in a building at Port Mathurin.
In response to your comment saying:
“”Those who want immediate information about earthquakes in or around Mauritius should know that there is NO agency responsible for this.”"
This is surprising to see this type of argument from you! We know the authorities like to consider the Mauritian population as being scientific fools, but this is no more the case. The USGS updated its website about the Rodrigues Earthquake within less than 10 minutes after it happened. The Google Index Time of its update about this Earthquake proves it to being around 08:40. Maybe you should have said that the Mauritius Meteorological Station is not able to inform its population at the right time and it was only after the news reached the Radio that someone from your department told Mauritius more about it.
And let me remind you that such an Earthquake at this specific distance and depth, if was a 7.0 mag, then we would have been sending rescue teams to Rodrigues by now. I understand that it is difficult to actually predict earthquake locations, however maybe the Mauritius Meteorological Station would be more respected if it would at least inform people at the right time and not with a whole one hour of lateness.
By the way, the thing you called “palabres”, we the web citizen call it comments.
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Sanjiv_Art Reply:
December 2nd, 2009 at 11:27 PM
@Kurt Avish,
The Mauritius Meteo is responsible for PREDICTING the weather, not earthquakes ( Who does, anyway?). It is only because, I guess, the government has not deemed it useful or significant that we do not have a geological survey dept and thus the responsibility has been
Also, if you feel that the mauritus meteo is a bunch of amateur, you better visit them (or any other weather bureau, for that matter), spend some time with them before you brand them as such. Forecasting the weather is not like storytelling a known event.
For your info, weather forecasting is now a global endeavour and forecasters do work in a big team to try to understand the weather. Information is gathered all around the world by both manned and automatic stations and analysed or fed into supercomputers, which is not available to every country in the world. There is no such thing as a 100% forecast and always, otherwise it is not called forecasting.
No hard feelings meant.
Rgds
Sanjiv
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its the second earthquake felt during this year think we should be more careful now
.-= Gaia´s last blog ..World Aids Day =-.
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@Gaia, even if we should be more careful, nothing can be done…nobody except God can stop earthquakes or tsunamis
.-= ASL´s last blog ..Petroleum Prices (December 2009) =-.
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Kristobal Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 4:54 AM
@ASL,
I don’t think ‘god’ can stop earthquakes or tsunamis.He would have done it for the boxing day tsunami.
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