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Wow Wordwind, I just read link #1 and now I know more about the tsunami than 99.999% of the people who live on Earth. I am glad that I couldn't pull up link #2, because then I wouldn't have anyone to talk to. Thanks for the link. 
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Thank you, WW, for posting these. Holy cow:
A fundamental tenet of plate tectonics theory is that the Earth's surface is divided into rigid plates that move together and apart like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Scientists have long recognized 12 major plates. Now there are 13. ...
There are 12 plates in the world and earthquakes occur when these collide. A 13th plate was created by the breakup of the Indo-Australian plate was documented in 1995. ...
Scientists have known that for some 50 million years, the Indian subcontinent has been pushing northward into Eurasia, forcefully raising the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayan Mountains. The new research suggests that starting about 8 million years ago, the accumulated mass became so great that the Indo-Australian Plate buckled and broke under the stress. ...
"In the Central Indian Ocean, Nature is conducting a large-scale laboratory experiment for us, showing us what happens to the oceanic lithosphere (Earth's outer layer) when force is applied," Dr. Weissel said in an interview. Essentially pushed into an immovable object, "it can buckle like a piece of tin," he said.
These quotes are from the first link. I was amazed when I saw the maps of the plate boundaries: no wonder New Zealand has so many earthquakes--they're right on top of one of the boundaries. [shiver] Oh, and it gave yet another def. of tsunami: The word "Tsunami" is Japanese for "Harbour Wave". They are often wrongly called "Tidal Waves" and have nothing to do with tides.
The second link opened okay for me, though the images were a bit slow to come up. Ack: until last night, I hadn't seen any pictures that gave me, a person unfamiliar with any of the areas that were hit, sufficient perspective of the size of the wave(s). But one of the news channels showed a video of an incoming one, and only when the camera zoomed in on what I had thought was a small piece of...something, maybe a child's shirt or a hamburger wrapper--did I realize I was seeing a man.
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rigid plates that move together and apart like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.
And what kind of acid is *your jigsaw puzzle on?
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that might have worked okay as a metaphor with the simple addition of the word "bad" ahead of jigsaw puzzle.
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>Oh, and it gave yet another def. of tsunami: The word "Tsunami" is Japanese for "Harbour Wave" Sounds familiar: http://tinyurl.com/44w27
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Christiansburg is about 120 miles NE of where I live, on I-81 in the mountains of SW Virginia. I've been through it many a time while jaunting to DC and back. It's near Radford, where there's a university, and I'd guess that fact has some tie-in to the monitoring of the well.
Almost as interesting as the fluctuations caused by the quake are the daily fluctuations which seem to me to be related to tides. But C'burg is 350 plus miles from the coast and a lot higher in altitude.
I've written to one of the contacts on that press release to ask him for an explanation for the daily fluctuations.
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Great TEd, please post his answer here if you will. A local effect from a such a long way off is unnerving. 
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No matter, in today's world of pretend, these photos will serve quite nicely, thank you. ___________________________________________________ These photographs are yet another examples of any images depicting large waves being grabbed and passed around as "real photographs" of the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. These pictures were purportedly taken in Thailand in December 2004, but they actually date from 2002 and depict not a tsunami, but a tidal bore (unusually high tides resulting in waters flowing upstream at high speeds) on the Qian Tang Jiang River, in Hangzhou, China. Tidal bores occur at predictable times, and watching these events is a four-day-long government-sponsored tourist festival in China, hence there were plenty of people and photographers on hand to observe the one captured in the pictures above. Several news outlets in a variety of countries have been taken in by these photos and have run them as genuine pictures of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. http://www.snopes.com/photos/tsunami/tsunami1.asp!!!!!!Edit: I see where this snopes listing was posted on another tsunami topic. Sorry for the duplicate. Now my only problem is whether or not to tell my children at school that the pictures that I showed them of the tsunami were false.
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