18:04 UTC..

BBC is covering the Tidal Wave / Earthquake extensivly;

a BBC correspondant on Holiday was caught up in it.. & reports

12.095 USB
h.t.t.p. //news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4125481.stm

Reports on swimmers being swept out to sea, and SCUBA Divers being trapped in
the Emerald Cavern , only accessible from underwater..



"Jim Douglas" wrote in
:

This is a B I G one. Anyone hear anything?

A magnitude 8.5 earthquake OFF THE W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA has
occurred at:
3.30N 95.78E Depth 10km Sun Dec 26 00:58:50 2004 UTC






Estimated at 8.9 by the USGS now:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/usslav/

Not close enough for a USA west coast tsunami:
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/message.txt

The only shortwave coverage I heard was some German language coverage,
probably Deutsche Welle. Was in the 49m band, I believe, around 02:00 UTC.