http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapc...ake/index.html
As of now nearly 12,000 found dead, an expected 150,000 homeless, injured, and dying.
Terrible. :(
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapc...ake/index.html
As of now nearly 12,000 found dead, an expected 150,000 homeless, injured, and dying.
Terrible. :(
"More than 4,500 people have been reported dead in Sri Lanka. Most of them, authorities said, were in the eastern district of Batticaloa. Thousands were missing and more than a half million displaced."
Yep, pretty bad... My best friend is vacationing in Thailand right now and he loves to scuba dive - I'm really hoping he wasn't near the affected areas. Still waiting on a message from him...
A friend of my wife's has family in Sri Lanka ... we're still waiting to hear from them, too...
We're almost in the same state we were in during 9/11 when my sister still worked in the financial area of NY.
Yeah , that's pretty grim.
I've got a friend near Bali, but I think the tsunami went the other way...
So many people died in Sri Lanka and India, and that's 1600 km away from the epicentre of the quake... they reckon the wave was 6 m high and reached 500 km/hr (about 300 mph)... :(
The next big one in Tokyo is overdue and the seismologists say if it's as big as the one in Niigata a couple of months ago which was only 6.1 (compared to this monster in Indonesia of 8.9) there'll be at least 20,000 dead...
Mat, from the first floor of an old wooden building... Must go and turn the gas taps off... :rolleyes:
Dam! That's horrible, freakin' horrible. I've been reading about this and between eathquakes and tsunamis all I can think is... WTF?
If you follow chinese astrology, it's the year of the wood monkey. Here's an excerpt from chineseastrology.com-Quote:
Originally posted by cerebus
Dam! That's horrible, freakin' horrible. I've been reading about this and between eathquakes and tsunamis all I can think is... WTF?
Quote:
Monkey years have also brought their share of natural disasters, as the high-strung Yang+ Monkey ushers in it's naughty mix of deception and environmental temper-tantrums.
That is a pretty interesting report on that timeline FSY, Im just glad that we have only 30 more days left in this year. Come on Jan 22 !!
A friend of mine is over there right now. Her and her husband thought it would be cool to re-do their wedding in the manner that it would be done in her country - so they went to bangladesh for the ceremony. Since she's originally from there, all of her family is there as well. I haven't heard from her yet, but hope she is okay.
I think that 12,000 might be low too.
Well, we found out that my wife's friends family are all OK and my friend just arrived back in Los Angeles today. So much relief on our end, however, the death and displacement toll continues to rise.
It's really difficult to conceive of the affected lives of so many, esp. today in our time of quick and available communication of info.
What I heard;
The fishes were jumping out of the water, because they sensed the earth quake under the ocean.
Some theories said the India sub continent slammed into China, thus formed the Himalaya mountain ridges or the roof of the world. Therefore, there were always pressures to be relieved as earth quakes in south west China.
The earth quake was felt thruout southwest China.
Including Yun Nan province, which is my father's homeland.
The tidal waves were so high, not seen in centuries.
This is what I heard.
The entire island of Sumatra was moved 100 feet as well. :(Quote:
Originally posted by SPJ
What I heard;
The fishes were jumping out of the water, because they sensed the earth quake under the ocean.
Some theories said the India sub continent slammed into China, thus formed the Himalaya mountain ridges or the roof of the world. Therefore, there were always pressures to be relieved as earth quakes in south west China.
The earth quake was felt thruout southwest China.
Including Yun Nan province, which is my father's homeland.
The tidal waves were so high, not seen in centuries.
This is what I heard.
What got me choked up was watching the vids on the news. I was watching this crowd of people, each hanging on to the next in a doorway, while the waters and debris rushed past.
And then one broke off, then the next, and the next, and the next... :o
EDIT:
There is a list of on-scene commentary & relief agencies here.
i thought 9-11 was the worst thing i'd see in my life time
jesus.
:( Just looked at the headlines on Yahoo! homepage..... "Asian death toll rises to 40,000" !!!!:( Horrible. Fukkin Horrible...
Chinese new year ends the 8th of Feb next year. The 9th is the start of the next year.Quote:
Originally posted by PangQuan
That is a pretty interesting report on that timeline FSY, Im just glad that we have only 30 more days left in this year. Come on Jan 22 !!
Eddie
Folks, this is truely horrible. The death toll has risen to 52000.
A silent prayer for the lost souls of this horrid tragedy.
AmazingQuote:
Originally posted by SifuAbel
Folks, this is truely horrible. The death toll has risen to 52000.
A silent prayer for the lost souls of this horrid tragedy.
:(
My friend described the coral reef where he had been scuba diving a few days earlier. Basically anyone caught there during the tsunami were ****ed... According to him, the coral was sooo sharp that just the coral debris floating in the water would cut you as you swam by... let alone if you're forced into the reef by the mass of the tsunami.
The tsunami probably affected most of the coastal sewer systems... there's going to be a LOT of health problems for the poorer folk in the areas...
Very tragic indeed...
It just gets worse!
Turns out that there *was* a warning system, but look what the logs for 0114Z 26 DEC 2004 [15 minutes after the first earthquake] said:
TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 001 PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS ISSUED AT 0114Z 26 DEC 2004 THIS BULLETIN IS FOR ALL AREAS OF THE PACIFIC BASIN EXCEPT ALASKA - BRITISH COLUMBIA - WASHINGTON - OREGON - CALIFORNIA.
.................. TSUNAMI INFORMATION BULLETIN ..................
THIS MESSAGE IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY. THERE IS NO TSUNAMI WARNING OR WATCH IN EFFECT.
AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS
ORIGIN TIME - 0059Z 26 DEC 2004
COORDINATES - 3.4 NORTH 95.7 EAST
LOCATION - OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
MAGNITUDE - 8.0
EVALUATION
THIS EARTHQUAKE IS LOCATED OUTSIDE THE PACIFIC. NO DESTRUCTIVE TSUNAMI THREAT EXISTS BASED ON HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI DATA. THIS WILL BE THE ONLY BULLETIN ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT UNLESS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BECOMES AVAILABLE. THE WEST COAST/ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER WILL ISSUE BULLETINS FOR ALASKA - BRITISH COLUMBIA - WASHINGTON - OREGON - CALIFORNIA.
On 0204Z 26 DEC 2004 a second bulletin was issued. It concluded that there was still no danger to the Pacific. The waves were only minutes away from Phuket. :(
It was available & forwarded to the weather/marine centers in Indonesia & India, but no one issued warnings there. :o
One amateur vid.
This is the most terrible weather-type disaster I think I recall ever hearing of.Quote:
Originally posted by norther practitioner
Amazing
:(
Well, it's not really 'weather-type' disaster - it's the aftermath of an earthquake. There have been far worse earthquake/volcano related disasters in the past 50 years.Quote:
Originally posted by SimonM
This is the most terrible weather-type disaster I think I recall ever hearing of.
Still, doesn't detract from the lives it affects...
I understand that it is not exactlty a weather disaster - like a hurricane - but Tsunami resulting from Earthquake is definately a "natural disaster" and that was the word I was fishing for and failed to find... :DQuote:
Originally posted by FngSaiYuk
Well, it's not really 'weather-type' disaster - it's the aftermath of an earthquake. There have been far worse earthquake/volcano related disasters in the past 50 years.
Still, doesn't detract from the lives it affects...
As for there being worse disasters in the past 50 years. That is possible but I am a **** sight short of 50. I'm nearly 26 and to be honest, I can't recall a specific natural phenomenon killing at least 50000 people in one go before. Now I am not a meterologist or a geologist or a climatologist; I'm a Sociologist by education so I don't profess in the slightest to be an expert. I was just trying to find some way to frame my shock and horror.
Another vid :eek:
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im having a really hard time trying not to imagine what it must feel like to have your child ripped from your arms by a torrent of water.
there can't be anything worse. it makes me want to cry.
As horrible as it is for the parents who've lost their children, it's even worse for the children who've lost their parents and are now orphans in that mess.:(
AP reports the number over 60K. I think when its all acoounted for. It might even top 100k.
This is a natural disaster of biblical proportions.
India 'doesn't need' foreign aid
19:35 (AEDT) INDIA has turned down foreign aid for victims of the tsunami that has killed tens of thousands of people across Asians, because it has "adequate resources", a government official said today.
Toddler survives two days in tree
15:05 (AEDT) A FOUR-year-old Thai boy has been reunited with his parents after the monster wave that hit southern Thailand left him stranded in a tree without food and water for more than two days.
Aust to give $35m aid: Downer
12:58 (AEDT) AUSTRALIA will increase its aid for the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster by $25 million, taking the total commitment to $35 million, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said today.
Toll rises to 63,114
12:11 (AEDT) THE death toll from the Asian tsunami, triggered by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake off Indonesia, rose to 63,114 people, government and health officials said.
Sickness and disease will triple all those numbers.Quote:
Originally posted by SifuAbel
AP reports the number over 60K. I think when its all acoounted for. It might even top 100k.
This is a natural disaster of biblical proportions.
Makes last years Iran earthquake with 26 thousand dead look small.