Scientists warning of earthquake disasters to come - From: The
Daily Telegraph - September 27, 2012 MASSIVE earthquakes will
strike for centuries to come as a new boundary in the Earth's
crust is created between Australia and India, scientists have
predicted after separate studies of an enormous quake earlier
this year. One of the studies has also revealed the initial 8.7
magnitude convulsion, which struck off the coast of the
Indonesian island of Sumatra on April 11, may be the most
powerful of its type ever recorded and that scientists "have
never seen an earthquake like it". A second study has discovered
the quake was so strong it had a global impact - triggering
unprecedented numbers of major "remote earthquakes", which are
upheavals more than 1500km from the originating epicentre.
Scientists believe the earthquake means a new plate boundary may
be forming in the earth's crust between the Indian and
Australian oceanic tectonic plates. The initial 8.7 magnitude
quake and its 8.2 magnitude aftershock were c