Diego Garcia is wired... That's also where all the communications intercepts are done on information that passes through the telecom cables under the ocean. Internet, too...
Adbusters had a great picture of the "antenna farm" in one issue last year.
Those seabottom anti-sub sensors *are* low frequency audio devices... It's concievable someone was right on top of it.
..."while it was in progress" is probably an adequate description.
I think someone mentioned in the news that the wavefront was 400/Kmh, that doesn't leave a whole lot of time... East Africa had *some* warning, but ya' know, there really
isn't a highly developed communication infrastructure on that part of the globe.
*Personally*, I thought "tsunami" after I saw this piece in my SMH newsletter on Xmas day:
Huge quake off Tasmanian coast December 25, 2004 http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Huge-quake-off-Tasmanian-coast/2004/12/24/1103825060819.html?oneclick=true
Australian scientists working on remote Macquarie Island in the sub-Antarctic were totally unaware of the biggest earthquake in the world for years happening nearby on Friday, the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) said.
The quake measured 8.1 on the Richter Scale and was the biggest in the world in almost four years, according to Geoscience Australia's seismologists.
Its epicentre was 400km off Macquarie Island and 800km off the coast of Tasmania.
Geoscience Australia said the quake hit an area known as ..... <>
----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Henwood To: lbo-talk Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 7:52 AM Subject: [lbo-talk] [Fwd: [nowar_australia] Diego Garcia -- did US military/CIA know tsunami was in progress?]
[This is from an old friend who spent many years as a US government seismologist. He's now in self-imposed exile in Australia.]
From: Edward Cranswick <e_cranswick at yahoo.com> Mailing-List: list nowar_australia at yahoogroups.com; contact nowar_australia-owner at yahoogroups.com Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 14:27:22 +0000
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Reading the New York Times article, "At Warning Center, Alert for the Quake, None for a Tsunami" (appended below), and thinking of my experience with investigating earthquakes for the US government for almost 22 years and doing research on seismological techniques to monitor underground nuclear explosions, I believe that the US military/CIA had critically useful information about the tsunami while it was in progress.
Based on seismic (earthquake) data alone, any tsunami expert would know that a magnitude 8+ submarine thrust (subduction) event like the 2004 Magnitude 9.0 Northern Sumatra Earthquake would have a good possibility of generating a tsunami (see appended article). The US has a very large military base on the island of Diego Garcia <<http://www.nctsdg.navy.mil/dgworld.html>http://www.nctsdg.navy.mil/dgworld.html> <<http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/io.html>http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/io.html> <<http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/deployment.map/diego.garcia.html>http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/deployment.map/diego.garcia.html> <<http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jksonc/5_DiegoGarcia.html>http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jksonc/5_DiegoGarcia.html> in the middle of the Indian Ocean where they develop and test the "Son of Star Wars" anti-ballistic missile system, among other activities. Somebody in the military must have been aware of tsunami hazard to the island due to the proximity of the southwestern Pacific archipelago. The US Navy and CIA undoubtedly have many sea-bottom sensors in the Indian Ocean for detecting submarines, undersea nuclear explosions, and earthquakes & tsunamis. I am sure that US military/CIA knew the tsunami was in progress but they did not relay this information to the countries at risk because the info was "CLASSIFIED".
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