Happy to be alive !!

continuing from where I left yesterday.

Am alive therefore I write.
Headed straight to the beach and found it deserted.
Found true love.
A couple was busy romancing,ignoring all tsunami warnings.
May be that is why they say,
"Ignorance is bliss"
With in minutes a convoy of policemen drove everyone away from beach.
Went to my place to learn that the tsunami-warning had been with-drawn.

Why wasn't there a Tsunami?
* Though the quake occurred close to the epicenter of the 2004 quake,
it occurred @ a depth of 30 km under ocean floor,
way deeper than the 2004 quake,which occurred @ a depth of 10 km.
As a rule,deep quakes dont trigger tsunami but shallow quakes do.
When a quake occurs deep under ocean-floor the fracture does not travel
all the way to ocean-floor. So,no crack appear on ocean floor and no water
is displaced. When no water is displaced,there will be no tsunami.
* The fault-line length of yesterday's quake was 200 - 250 Km.
The 2004 quake's fault-line measured 1200 Km.
Shorter the fault-line,lesser the water that is displaced.
Hence lesser the probability of Tsunami.
* Waves always travel in a direction perpendicular to the direction of the
quake fault-line. The fault-line of yesterday's quake was oriented in
north-west and south-east direction. Even if waves were triggered,those
would have traveled towards pacific ocean and not towards the continents.

Now,I know why there wasn't Tsunami.
Now,I know why I'm alive.
Or do I really know why?

Armageddon !!

Armageddon !

Is this it?
There was a massive quake of magnitude 7.9 two hours back.
The epicenter of the quake is @ 4.517, 101.382.
In other words,exactly the place where devastating quake of 2004 occured.
The quake by itself was not devastating but the tsunami that followed was.
Am @ Chennai located along eastern coast of India.
It isn't sure whether there would be a tsunami this time.
Aint running away yet.
This may be that last few moments.

Our office is located with in one Kilometer from sea.
Most have left(ran) from office.
Few are still busy.
Is this what they want to do in the last few minutes of their life?
What do I do in the last few minutes of my life?
Don't know for sure.
But am just writing.
The security is driving me out of office.

Will continue if there is tomorrow(for me).