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Weather Channel reports: Roger Musson (Brit. Geo. Survey) via AP: Quake was strike-slip. Earth moves horizontally…doesn’t displace large volumes of water

More: US Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issues new Indian Ocean warning following latest aftershocks .. USGS: A second quake, magnitude 8.2, strikes off west coast of Sumatra.. Local Indonesian authorities issue a fresh tsunami warning following an aftershock with magnitude 8.2..

Aftershock of 8.2 reported near the original 8.6 quake. 3.5 foot water rise reported near northwest coast of Sumatra (Meulaboh).

FLASH: Indonesia’s geophysics agency says aftershocks in Aceh include quake of 8.8 on Richter scale, issues tsunami warning

Tsunami watch after big Sumatra shake

Planes diverted to avoid North Korean rocket launch And there is more.. Voters in South Korea have largely ignored the North’s threat of a rocket launch by voting in parliamentary elections.. And as far as the threat from new leader Kim in the North, what is the real truth on the rocket launch possibility? Experts seem to … Read moreAll the trouble in the world: Korean Peninsula edition

This photo has been making the rounds on Facebook and other social networking sites over the past several weeks.. We’d be remiss not to address it on Earth Informer. The image is a model of that appeared in the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity *something you don’t find on many newstands* shows just how vast and … Read moreWe all glow down here: Study shows just how much radiation has covered the world since Fukushima

Autism rates are high. So are obesity rates. And tonight, a study that somehow tries to link both together is getting a lot of press and air time..  More on that study here if you wish to grin and bear it.. The basic gist, if you couldn’t get the relation, is that moms are really obese … Read moreAnother day, another autism study