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Terrible news ...this is the first I've heard, haven't seen the news yet.

Wah! Crazy stuff....

10,000 dead, jesus.

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On This is so fucking sad. Anyone remember that Earthquake in Turkey a few years ago that killed 45,000 people? Christ - 45,000 unexpectedly die in a matter of minutes in another country, but when 5,000 die in a terrorist attack, the entire fucking country decides that it's worthy of a bumper-sticker empire. I wonder just what the measure of a single human life is to people anymore.

Yeh i remember tht quake in Turkey...my friend in LA told me that the news channels didn't bother covering this story because LA had an earthquake of their own... something like 3.4 on the richter scale and 2 people were injured by falling plates...i men it just seems that people are only bothered by what affects them.

I also realised that the number of people that died today is more than twice the number killed on 9/11...i guess it doesn't take as much attention though because it was a force of nature rather than a human provoked (sp?) attack.

At the end of the day this is such a sad day for the world

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Originally posted by josh4 the wave hit a lot of big tourism spots so i bet we're going to start seeing amature videos of the destruction pop up pretty soon woo woo!

The last thing that came into my mind from this disaster...

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Originally posted by josh4 oh yeah, and what a horrible tragic event all those poor people there am i a good caring person now excuse me while i go about my daily routine despite i dont see any of you changing your new years plans to help the less fortunate

Harsh..... oh well, theres always one scrooge at christmas...

I was at work for a 13 hr boxing day shift and my boss comes into the warehouse at 4:30pm and says check out the tv section, we had BBC on. I was speechless and some of my co-workers phoned home (like their real homes) because they had family near the areas, they are all ok. This shows how we are at the mercy of mother nature at times. My prayers and sympathy goes out to all affected, especially around Christmas time.

12 000 dead is worst than 9/11 :P

Very sad news.....

Compare to those Hurricane's we got in FL, the hurricanes are nothing

At least we have warnings, these ppl don't

Damn damn sad....

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stor.../124224/1/.html

It's actually the 4th largest earthquake since 1900, not the 5th.

shit..my girl and her family is at phuket right now...i am worried.

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Originally posted by nrjizer Phuket... anyone else think this is a great name for a village?

It's an island/resort that many british tourists frequent, my aunty/uncle have been 2 or 3 times

actually the weird thing here is that I watched a show on Tsunami's and mega-tsunamis (not the ones caused by earthquakes but large islands falling into the sea) just 3 or 4 nights ago, they've predicted that one of the canary isles (where I holiday) called La Palma is slowly falling ionto the sea and if it does, a tsunami about 20 times the size of this will devastate the entire east coast of the usa if it happens.

I know there have been disasters that have taken more lives before...but have any been as widespread as this one?

Indonesia, Malaysia, Somalia, India, Sri Lanka etc etc....


Even the west coast of Australia felt an increase in ocean swell (from what I heard)

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/usslav/

Some say the death toll is now over 15,000.

Here's the figures from each country:
Sri Lanka: 4,850 dead
Indonesia: 4,440 dead
India: 4,270 dead
Thailand: 430 dead
Malaysia: 44 dead
Maldives: 32 dead
Bangladesh: 2 dead



Twizta...im sorry to hear that buddy...please pm me or post on here when you hear from your girl.

It has just reported that Jet Li is safe with his wife...(he was reported missing earlier)

Death toll:

Sri Lanka: 5,880
India: 5,279
Indonesia: 4,448
Thailand: 461
Malaysia: 44
Maldives: 32
Bangladesh: 2
Myanmar: 1

Total: 16,147

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Originally posted by Plastick It has just reported that Jet Li is safe with his wife...(he was reported missing earlier)

i never knew that! do you have a link? I would have been really upset if he had died, he is one of my favorite actors

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Originally posted by Jackson i never knew that! do you have a link? I would have been really upset if he had died, he is one of my favorite actors

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Originally posted by Jackson i never knew that! do you have a link? I would have been really upset if he had died, he is one of my favorite actors

Yea true... he has lotsa fans heh. I don't have a link for Jet Li. There's a topic regarding this in a local(singapore) forum and some of them claimed to hear that on the radio news report.

edit: forgot to say this in my previous post, Jet Li went for a vacation(i dont know the location)

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Originally posted by Sunsnail

What?

(In another board)

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hencanz: Seismologic bureau warned that aftershock as strong as 6 RS will occur during the next few weeks and more tsunami is expected...:s22:

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hencanz: expect more to come as the water subsided & communications link restored...

The death toll has topped 20k.

Good lord.

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Originally posted by wwu.punisher The death toll has topped 20k. Good lord.

Source from? Just know that it's around 17k now.

yeah this is incredibly sad.
In NZ the biggest to be recorded was 8.3.

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