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Powerful earthquake in Indonesia. / October 26, 2010 /

October 25, 2010 in Indonesia, a series of powerful earthquakes with magnitudes 7.7 / 6.1 / 6.2 to the southwest of the island of Sumatra. The earthquake was felt in the cities of Padang (capital of province of West Sumatra), Bengkulu, and even in Singapore. Reported the deaths of more than 100 people and over 500 are missing in the tsunami (wave height was more than 3 m).

Less than two weeks ago, the Indonesian media, referring to studies conducted by the Academy of Sciences of the country, reported that at any point on the western coast of Sumatra may occur earthquake of magnitude 8.9 on the Richter scale.

In addition, on Monday morning, the Centre of Volcanology and reduce geological risks in Indonesia has announced a fourth, the highest degree of readiness for eruption of the volcano Merapi in Central Java Province — one of the most densely populated areas on the planet.

Occurred on Oct. 25, 2010 a series of powerful earthquakes in Sumatra was one of the expected Russian experts. Previous powerful earthquake in Sumatra occurred on 9 May 2010 (see post on the site from 05/13/2010). Geophysical characteristic signs and indicators of cloud and repeated at this time.

In developing the forecast, we used data gravity, protons, georotatsionnyh, telluric measurements, as well as cloud seismotectonic indicators identified by satellite imagery of cloud cover. Synchronous anomalies in all classes of signs were detected on October 12-13 (Annex 1) and October 23-24 (Annex 2). In addition, in early October, there were a series of powerful geomagnetic disturbances, which were calculated from the magnetic meridian longitude at the equator of 102/-78 108/-72 to the probable dates of earthquakes in the range of 19.10 — 1.11 (Annex 3). Cloud seismotectonic indicators were found over Indonesia 13, 23 and 25 October.

It should be noted that a similar outlook on Sumatra gave an Indian researcher R. Shanmugasundaram on its website.
Remains alarming situation in Europe, particularly in central Italy. Recall our prediction, including in Italy is valid until November 5.

Annex 1 (pdf, 661,2 kb)

Annex 2 (pdf, 547,8 kb)

Annex 3 (pdf, 615,5 kb)

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