Mingaladon sits right on top of the Andaman Sea.
Andaman trench/Tectonic plates
Myanmar lies to the north of the Andaman Islands and Indonesia to the south while New Delhi is more than 2,500 kilometres away to the northwest.
The Andamans were badly hit by the 2004 Asian tsunami, which was triggered by an earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra that sent giant waves crashing into countries around the Indian Ocean, resulting in nearly 300,000 lives lost.
The Andaman Sea area witnesses frequent earthquakes caused by the meeting of the Indian plate with the Burmese microplate along an area known as the Andaman trench.
The World’s 5 Largest Oil Consumers October 25th, 2012
#1 United States
#2 China
#3 Japan
#4 India
#5 Saudi Arabia
Take a good look at the 5 largest consumers.
3 are directly affected with another Indian Ocean Earthquake, Tsunami.
The United States, #1, will cease to import any oil, because the New Madrid Earthquake will blow up the U.S. infrastructure.
And it's not the 'arab perdition' that will collapse Saudi Arabia's Oil Fields, but Earthquake,Volcanic activity-
A swarm of thousands of earthquakes that struck the corner of Saudi Arabia nearest to Egypt in 2009 helped reveal that the area is unexpectedly volcanically active, scientists now report. "The Red Sea rift is a very active place, with a chain of volcanoes down the middle of it that we're rarely aware of because they are underwater," said researcher John Pallister, a volcanologist and chief of the U.S. Geological Survey's volcano disaster assistance program.
The Red Sea is connected to another World Oil chokepoint.
The lifeline to the transit of Oil called- Bab el-Mandab
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God Bless,
gail