by twister12 » Sat May 06, 2006 4:03 pm
<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>So Twister, do you think that's why there was a quake and Tsunami warning last week?<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br><br>Well, probably not, for some basic reasons.<br><br>First of all, after some basic research, the dead dolphins started washing up around April 27/28.<br><br>The Tonga quake was May 3rd:<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Aftershocks rock South Pacific near Tonga; no tsunami warning issued <br>15:48:30 EDT May 4, 2006 <br>NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga (AP) - A series of aftershocks measuring up to magnitude 6.0 rocked the South Pacific island country of Tonga into Friday morning, a day after an even more powerful quake triggered a tsunami warning. <br><br>A tsunami warning was not issued Friday, and there was no sign of damage from the aftershocks. <br><br>The U.S. Geological Survey said at least six aftershocks occurred near Tonga, while others were recorded near Fiji and Vanuatu. The strongest aftershock occurred at 12:25 a.m. local time at a depth of almost 38 kilometres. <br><br>It was located 135 kilometres east-northeast of Nuku'alofa and 2,100 kilometres northeast of Auckland, New Zealand. <br><br>On Thursday, a magnitude-7.9 quake struck about 150 kilometres south of Neiafu, Tonga, and 2,150 kilometres north-northeast of Auckland, New Zealand. A tsunami warning was issued for as far away as Fiji and New Zealand, but it was lifted within two hours after ocean buoys recorded a tsunami of less than 60 centimetres.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br><br>Secondly, as is obvious by the previous news article clipping, Tonga in the South Pacific is nowhere near the island of Zanzibar, just off Tanzania, on the eastern coast of Africa.<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/africa/embassy_bombing/images/kenya_tanzania_map.gif" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.worldswitch.com/Countries/Tonga/images/TongaM.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>However, I also did some research into finding more confirmation of what I saw, and I have firmed my belief that it was reported on CNN (on April 28 and 29). The transcript from the 28th interestingly detail the moderately clueless anchor at least asking about the sonar possibility but the so-called expert discounted it. (Which is why the image on the screen and what the 'expert' said struck me in a cognitively dissonant way). Their web report on the 29th, however, contradicted their on-air reporting and ran a headline asking if the Navy's sonar did it.<br><br>But alas, even though quite a few CNN video reports are posted online, the dolphin reports are not among them.<br><br>I also tried searching the AP and Reuters photo archives available online. Most news articles on this ran an AP photo, so they had someone there. Reuters had a stringer there as well. I found just a little over a dozen photos, but none of them were closeups in such a manner as to show what I saw (most were 'perspective' shots).<br><br>Oh, and the total number of dolphins washed ashore was 600-800.<br><br>Interestingly, tissue samples of the dolphins were sent to Sweden for analysis. Specifically, internal organ and ear samples. So, we may see some news on this.<br><br>Hope that helps.<br><br><br> <br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=twister12@rigorousintuition>twister12</A> at: 5/6/06 2:08 pm<br></i>