University of Ulster predicted earthquake (Science not Sollog)
Science predicted the earthquake, not Sollog, he just reads the BBC.
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Wednesday, 16 March, 2005
build-up of stress on faults in Sumatra following the Indonesian earthquake is likely to trigger another large quake and perhaps a tsunami.
That is the claim made in Nature by a team from the University of Ulster, UK.
The slip that caused last year’s devastating quake placed increased stress on the Sumatran fault and on the adjacent undersea Sunda Trench.
A new rupture could trigger a magnitude 7-7.5 quake on land and a magnitude 8-8.5 quake beneath the sea, they say.
John McCloskey, University of Ulster
The 2004 earthquake occurred when the deep, flat Indian plate slipped under the Burma plate. Major earthquakes tend to cluster in these subduction zones where two or more plates of the Earth’s crust grind and overlap.
When a quake takes place, the displacement causes the surrounding crust to become distorted. This places stress on other fault lines and structures in the area. Researchers from the University of Ulster at Coleraine used information about displacement following December’s magnitude 9.0 quake to calculate the stresses it placed on the surrounding region.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4354217.stm