A quake of 6.1 magnitude hit Indonesia's West Java area on Saturday, the country's geophysics agency BMKG said, adding that the quake has no tsunami potential.
Wegener showed in great detail how such continental movements were plausible and how they worked, using evidence from a large number of sciences including geology, geophysics, paleontology, and climatology.
Schneider's book drew an especially scathing attack from Helmut Landsberg, who had been director of the Weather Bureau's office of climatology, and was now a well-respected professor at the University of Maryland.