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aftershock of 6.0 in the bay of bengal according to teletext on 2 indian islands

TOLL as @ 1857 SST >>
Countries Deaths Injured
India 5,697
Indonesia 4,912
Malaysia 44 200
Myanmar 36
Sri Lanka 10,029
Thailand 839 5,000
Bangladesh 2
Total 21,559 5,200

Sri Lanka: 10,800 dead
Indonesia: 4,500 dead
India: 2,958 dead
Thailand: 839 dead
Malaysia: 44 dead
Maldives: 32 dead
Burma: 30 dead
Bangladesh: 2 dead

Total: 18,366


Source: BBC News

TOLL as @ 2049SST >>
Countries Deaths Injured
India 6,597
Indonesia 4,725
Malaysia 51 200
Myanmar 30
Sri Lanka 10,897
Thailand 866 5,000
Maldives 43
Bangladesh 2
Total 23,211 5,200

Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/killerwaves/

I think it's been upgraded to a 9.0 now. Pretty crazy stuff.

Yeah this is truly horrible. I live in jakarta, indonesia, but only felt a slight rubble by the time the shockwave hit here. A good friend of mine was diving just by the island of Phuket when the tsunami's hit though, but fortunately they recieved warnings on the radio just before they struck and so was able to cover in a nearby island.

BBC news have updated on tv (news 24) that 23,000 people have been killed.
i've been watching tv for about an hour and tthey have said the death toll could skyrocket (possibly over 1 million) as a settlement of a shanty town with other million inhbitants was near the epicentre of the earthquake. No people have yet been heaard to be alive!

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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

Was on paper.... sorry it's a chinese paper.

edit: It's also reported that he's not a good swimmer (or a non-swimmer)...

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Massive rescue efforts as Asian tsunami toll soars near 23,000 27 December 2004 2051 hrs (SST) COLOMBO : Massive rescue operations were scrambled along Asia's devastated coastlines as the death toll from a powerful earthquake and the giant tsunamis it unleashed rose to almost 23,000 and hopes faded for many thousands more still missing. Horrific scenes of destruction met emergency teams as bodies piled up by the hour from Sri Lanka to India, Indonesia to Thailand, while international aid agencies rushed food and clothing to hundreds of thousands left homeless. Hundreds of rescue ships, helicopters and planes were mobilised to evacuate tourists from wrecked resorts and airlift stricken victims to hospitals already overflowing with the wounded and corpses. The trail of devastation came after an earthquake erupted off Indonesia on Sunday, razing buildings in the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh and triggering giant tidal waves which battered the coasts of Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Indonesia, the Maldives, Myanmar and Malaysia. As survivors were evacuated from stricken areas, the full horror of carnage wrought by the tidal waves emerged; babies torn from their parents' hands, children and the elderly hurled out to sea from their homes, entire buildings swept away. The quake, the fourth largest recorded since 1900 and measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale, occurred after a rupture on the Indian Ocean seabed caused by the violent grinding of two tectonic plates. Sri Lanka and India were severely hit with respective death tolls of 10,890 and 6,289, while the number of dead in Indonesia rose to 4,725. A further 839 deaths were reported in Thailand, 51 in Malaysia, 43 in the Maldives, 30 in Myanmar and two in Bangladesh. Huge waves swept some 7,000 kilometres as far as Africa, crashing on to the shores of Kenya and Somalia, affecting the islands of Mauritius, Reunion and the Seychelles on the way, and leaving several people missing there. Indonesia's Aceh province bore the brunt of the temblor, hit at point-blank range and then battered by a tsunami, leaving at least 4,725 dead and many more missing. An AFP reporter among the first to reach the province's main city Banda Aceh, which has been in blackout since the quake struck, described a scene of ruin and death, with hundreds of bodies and pulverised buildings. Bloodied corpses covered by plastic sheets lay rotting on the ground at an Indonesian Red Cross office in Lambaro on the northern outskirts of Banda Aceh. Police said there were 500 bodies at the centre. "People told me it was as if God had unleashed his anger on the people," said Haji Ali, a resident in Patong Labu, a small settlement close to the north Aceh town of Bireuen. Relief efforts have been hampered by the closure of the region's main airport at Banda Aceh. In Sri Lanka a massive humanitarian operation was launched to help 250,000 people believed to have lost their homes. "We had no mechanism to deal with this type of disaster," said top government aide Lalith Weeratunga, as the nation appealed for international aid and President Chandrika Kumaratunga declared a state of disaster. In southern India survivors grimly buried or burnt their dead as the death toll rose to at least 6,289, with thousands more missing amid warnings of a return of killer tsunamis. The dead included about 3,000 in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, close to the temblor's epicentre. Thousands of people were fleeing the coasts of the islands after fresh tremors hit Monday and meteorologists warned aftershocks could trigger "big waves" until Tuesday afternoon. The death toll in Thailand included scores of foreign tourists and a grandson of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, with more than 7,200 injured. Almost 29,000 people were evacuated from the worst affected areas, which included the resort islands of Phuket and Phi Phi where thousands of European tourists had been enjoying holidays. Hardly a building was left standing on Phi Phi island east of Phuket, where bodies were seen strewn about the island, covered in white cloths before being taken away by emergency crews or Western tourist volunteers. "I saw bodies almost everywhere on land, and in the water too, and I think there are many more bodies trapped under the bungalow debris," said rescuer Wirat Mansa-ad, estimating 300 died on the island alone. As Thailand mobilised its army and navy in a huge rescue operation, dazed foreigners began flying home -- still struggling to come to grips with what had happened. Just before the first wave struck, "there was no water left in the ocean. The fish were just flapping and dying on the beach," Danish tourist Svend Falk-Roenne, 52, told AFP in Bangkok on his way home from Phuket. "Then the wave just came towards us. I've never seen anything like it." Melina Heppell, a six-month-old baby girl from Australia, was swept from her father's arms on Patong Beach, Phuket, when a tsunami wave hit, her uncle Simon Illingworth said on Australian television. "They were walking along Patong Beach yesterday ... He thought he had the baby in his hands, but all he had was clothes," Illingworth said, tears streaming down his cheeks. The United Nations rushed disaster teams to south and southeast Asia, saying hundreds of thousands of people in coastal areas were at risk, with livelihoods from fishing and farming wiped out and disease threatening to wreak more havoc. Governments from France to Australia and Russia to the United States pledged aid and assistance, despatched aircraft, doctors and disaster relief specialists to the worst-hit areas. "The power of this earthquake, and its huge geographical reach, are just staggering," said Carol Bellamy, executive director of UN Children's Fund (UNICEF). "Hundreds of thousands of children in coastal communities in six countries may be in serious jeopardy," she said. A spokesman for UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called the waves "catastrophic" and said Annan had been "profoundly saddened to learn of the massive loss of life and destruction." In Geneva, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies appealed for 7.5 million Swiss francs (4.8 million euros, 6.6 million dollars) to help an estimated 500,000 survivors. In Malaysia, 51 people, including many elderly and children, were drowned and many others were missing after tidal waves hit the resort islands of Penang and Langkawi and the northwestern coast. On the Indian Ocean tourist paradise of the Maldives, a British tourist and 42 other people died after tidal waves lashed the archipelago, officials said. The United States and New Zealand confirmed casulaties among the dead, while many countries including Australia and France reported nationals missing. - AFP

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stor.../124345/1/.html

Its sad with the technology nowadays that India & Sri Lanka didnt have any real warning. If they would have been properly warned & had a system set up it would have saved thousands of lives.

i wonder how many people of greater recognition around the world, whether politics or sports or whatever, died. you know what i meam? i wonder if it was just all the regular people who were living there who died, along with some tourists

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Originally posted by Trazedict i wonder how many people of greater importance to the world, whether politics or sports or whatever, died. you know what i meam? i wonder if it was just all the regular people who were living there who died

sports? lol

how is a sportsman more important than a farmer?

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Originally posted by TOR sports? lol how is a sportsman more important than a farmer?

ok well it came out wrong, but what im saying is who died that people will recognize internationally? like that jet lee situation

the death toll is expect to rise to more than 24,000. and many european countries lost citizens.

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Countries around the world had people among the dead. Britain reported 11 of its citizens had died; Norway 10; Sweden 9; Japan 9; Germany four; Denmark three. Those numbers likely would rise. Sri Lanka said 72 foreign tourists were killed, and Thailand said 35 of the dead were foreigners.

this is worse than 9/11..

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Originally posted by ::TranceVanDyk:: the death toll is expect to rise to more than 24,000. and many european countries lost citizens. this is worse than 9/11..

death toll wise yes, this is horrible. But I would say 9/11 was worse, since it was pure human hatred that caused so many deaths. This was an unavoidable natural disaster.

So my memory is fading at my old age...someone tell me which foreign country was the first to send relief aid?

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Originally posted by Trazedict i wonder how many people of greater recognition around the world, whether politics or sports or whatever, died. you know what i meam? i wonder if it was just all the regular people who were living there who died, along with some tourists

your just as f*cked up as this dude

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Originally posted by Nou ABC put the death toll at 23,700 and an Indian Territory off the coast has not reported, but they think that upto 3000 could have died there, putting the toll over 25,000 people. This is has to be the most widespread natural disaster in the history of man?

the chinese have recently built some of the largest dams in the entire world, because floods along the yangtze and yellow rivers have killed millions in past years. i think thats much worse.

My condolonces go out to the people who lost their loved ones, my god be with them and provide them with eternal strenght to cope up with their loss.

Yet again, this proves that man and his technology ain't shit when it comes to natural disasters..

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Originally posted by Nou I didnt say worse. I said most widespread, as in affecting the largest area. On that note, the earthquake in Bam Iran a year ago to the day this one happend, killed like 30,000 people, so this isnt as bad. Yet.

ohh, well, the earth has to let out some built up tension, too bad its people that take the brunt of it.

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Originally posted by ::TranceVanDyk:: your just as f*cked up as this dude

what? its a perfectly legitimate question. all im wondering is if we lost any people that are known worldwide in this disaster.
im not blowing off everyone else who died. of course i feel terrible for them. this will devastate that area for a long long time.

and just imagine how much greater the devastation will be when the canary islands slide into the ocean, like someone else said in this thread. worlds goin to shit. those appalachian mountains will play a huge role in saving lives. new york, d.c., boston, jersey, pittsburgh, all gone.

what a bloody tragedy

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Originally posted by Ian^ 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 had heard of this earlier but wtf, TWENTY times this one? how much is that in metres? that would probably hit my house though sinking along with an island must be even worse

there's also this old bullshit legend about an island that was seen many years ago that will come back from under the ocean, sinking my island madeira as a consequence

go alarmism :\

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Originally posted by Trazedict what? its a perfectly legitimate question. all im wondering is if we lost any people that are known worldwide in this disaster. im not blowing off everyone else who died. of course i feel terrible for them. this will devastate that area for a long long time. and just imagine how much greater the devastation will be when the canary islands slide into the ocean, like someone else said in this thread. worlds goin to shit. those appalachian mountains will play a huge role in saving lives. new york, d.c., boston, jersey, pittsburgh, all gone.

pretty much anybody who lives in a coastal city has a higher chance of dying from a massive, once in a 100 years disaster, which would include me. but ill take my chances, i hate being landlocked.

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Originally posted by Nou Here:

that's the one, saw the show on discovery or national geographic the other night, was quite an interesting if frightening prospect.

Fortunately for Paranoiko, the north of La Palma is extinct and it's only the volcano making up the lower half which will fall into the sea, causing problems to the west, probably not the north/north east. This may happen tomorrow but it could be another 300, 600, 2000 years before it does happen

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Originally posted by paranoik0 what a bloody tragedy i had heard of this earlier but wtf, TWENTY times this one? how much is that in metres? that would probably hit my house though sinking along with an island must be even worse there's also this old bullshit legend about an island that was seen many years ago that will come back from under the ocean, sinking my island madeira as a consequence go alarmism :\

not heard about the legend you're on about, but the height of these other ones would mean they swept in between 20 and 50km inland on the american coast, so take a map, and draw a line at 50km and most of that could be underwater if this does happen. The last time a smaller one happened hundreds of years ago actually shaped the Bahamas, they're pointy in places from the water hitting and covering parts of the island, and there's rocks onland now which are like tonnes in weight but got catapulted onto hills on the land. Scary stuff

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