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Major Earthquake in Indian Ocean - Update: 6.4 Quake in Japan Too

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Honorary Yooper8/10/2009 2:25:32 pm PDT

re: #217 eschew_obfuscation

A question for Hoops or other geologists around…

Would it be possible to have a major sea-floor displacement without an attendant shock wave registering with detectors?

Not really. It takes a lot of force to have a major sea floor displacement. Any such displacement would show up on a seismograph as a large earthquake easily.