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| Camwin |
| I just found out there was a earthquake on christmas eve kms south of the south island of NZ, measuring 8.1. That's freaky . They say the 9.0 was related to this. :nervous: |
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| Plastick |
| quote: | Originally posted by Radagast
100,000? Why did MSNBC just put the total at 80,000 about two minutes ago? |
I find it weird too... I believe the death toll is at 80k+ mark at the moment. Someone pasted the link earlier that says 100k (reported on site ThisisLondon) which was inaccurate. Looks what's the headline on the main page now: Tsunami disaster toll nears 100,000 |
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| Perfect_Cheezit |
| quote: | Originally posted by beats and beeps
Why has our small Canadian government given more money to this cause than a huge country such as America? |
obviously the amount of money America is sending is gonna be stepped up since we practically always donate more than half the other nations of the world combined, this will be no exception, not to mention all the charity donations private citizens are sending to international relief organizations...plus we're sending troops there to help, so knock off your overly politicized bull and think like a normal person :rolleyes: |
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| TranceMuzik02 |
EU $44m
US: $35m
Canada: $33m
Japan: $30m
UK: $28.9m
Australia: $27m
France: $20.4m
Denmark: $15.6m
Saudi Arabia: $10m
Norway: $6.6m
Taiwan: $5.1m
Finland: $3.4m
Kuwait: $2.1m
Netherlands: $2.6m
UAE: $2m
Ireland $1.3m
Singapore: $1.2m
Source: Reuters, United Nations |
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| Zureal |
| quote: | Originally posted by josh4
well i'll donate but i dont think it'll do much help from what i saw from the massive sept 11 donations and how they didnt go to use |
I'm sad to hear the 9/11 donatations where mishandled. But i am so glad you say you are still donating money to this.
I really do think everyone who reads this post should donate and then encourage others to donate to make up for the people who don't, when they should.
I always imagine if i could go back and help people in previous era's who have faced similair tradgedies, but can't because i hadn't been born etc. This is going to be one of the greatest tradgedies of our time, and we can't just sit back and do nothing, when we can be doing something to help, now, and not just offering words of condolence ..
Do u know what i'm rambling about?
I know this is only trance addict, but i have been saying similair things to people in real life. |
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| Zureal |
If you are able to, donate money..
www.redcross.org
www.unicef.org
credit or phone or get your parents to, get your friends to.
it's that simple.
every dollar can help a life.
this really is something where thoughts and prayers can do little.
money = help.
please donate. |
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| Plastick |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zureal
I'm sad to hear the 9/11 donatations where mishandled. But i am so glad you say you are still donating money to this.
I really do think everyone who reads this post should donate and then encourage others to donate to make up for the people who don't, when they should.
I always imagine if i could go back and help people in previous era's who have faced similair tradgedies, but can't because i hadn't been born etc. This is going to be one of the greatest tradgedies of our time, and we can't just sit back and do nothing, when we can be doing something to help, now, and not just offering words of condolence ..
Do u know what i'm rambling about?
I know this is only trance addict, but i have been saying similair things to people in real life. |
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| MiB |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zureal
I'm sad to hear the 9/11 donatations where mishandled. But i am so glad you say you are still donating money to this.
I really do think everyone who reads this post should donate and then encourage others to donate to make up for the people who don't, when they should.
I always imagine if i could go back and help people in previous era's who have faced similair tradgedies, but can't because i hadn't been born etc. This is going to be one of the greatest tradgedies of our time, and we can't just sit back and do nothing, when we can be doing something to help, now, and not just offering words of condolence ..
Do u know what i'm rambling about?
I know this is only trance addict, but i have been saying similair things to people in real life. |
nice sigg dude ;) nah.. i still have friends who have friends there but i think theres no hope anymore.. i mean.. STILL 1500+ missing from sweden.. hmm..
i saw this pic on a newspage.. VERY graphic so dont watch if u dont wanna..
crazy what mother earth can do
http://hem.bredband.net/miba/hm.jpg
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we get cancelled (typo?) new year in a whole city here so they can give the money to the needed instead of fireworks.. best new year for me ever.. |
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| TranceGiant |
Almost 120.000
| quote: | Tsunami death toll tops 115,000
Relief workers find devastation in Indonesia
Thursday, December 30, 2004 Posted: 8:30 AM EST (1330 GMT)
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (CNN) -- The death toll from Sunday's tsunamis has jumped sharply to over 115,000 after Indonesia reported nearly 80,000 people were killed in that country alone.
U.N. relief workers arrived in Indonesia's Aceh province to find devastation in the region closest to the epicenter of the earthquake that spawned the killer tsunamis.
Emergency workers reported that in some parts of Aceh, as many as one in every four citizens was dead.
Scenes of destruction -- homes and businesses flattened, buses tossed about like toys, piles of rubble filling the streets -- were repeated across the region, as were the scenes of grief -- residents and vacationers searching in vain for loved ones, or, at times, finding them in makeshift morgues.
Aceh province, nearly inaccessible in the best of times because of its remoteness and the presence for years of an armed insurgency, was even more cut off after Sunday's disaster.
The events began just before 7 a.m. (midnight GMT Saturday) when a massive earthquake -- at 9.0, the strongest in the world since 1964 -- struck just 160 kilometers (100 miles) off Aceh's coast.
The tsunami swamped shores, villages, the jungle and Aceh's capital, Banda Aceh, which was almost completely destroyed.
Boats slammed into bridges, and bodies were left lying on the streets or still buried beneath rubble left behind when the water subsided, CNN's Mike Chinoy reported.
Dino Patti Djalal, spokesman for Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, said the Indonesian military's 30,000-strong force in the province was devastated.
"The military and the police were hard hit. Hundreds were killed," he said. "One military helicopter survived."
Djalal said aid had begun arriving in the devastated province, but Chinoy said the capital showed little signs of it.
And the aftershocks continued, dozens of them, four days after the initial event.
Two of those -- both since 7 a.m. (midnight GMT Tuesday) -- topped 6.0 magnitude and were centered in India's remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands, part of the same chain as Sumatra. (Full story)
One, measuring 6.2, was centered about 300 km (200 miles) from Point Blair, on Andaman Island to the north, and Banda Aceh, to the south, just before midnight Wednesday.
On Thursday, Indian authorities issued a fresh tsunami alert and warned people in coastal areas to head for higher ground, despite the apparent absence of any major seismological activity. Reports of the warning triggered panic in the streets of Port Blair. (Full story)
Indian authorities have just begun to reach the area near the epicenter of the quakes. The impact of the aftershocks there was not yet known.
On the Indian coast, survivors wondered what they would do now that their homes have been flattened.
In Sri Lanka, survivors told CNN they were afraid and hopeless after losing everything they owned and seeing members of the families swept out to sea.
The relief effort was expected to be the largest ever, requiring millions of dollars just to stabilize the area and prevent the aftermath of the disaster from killing even more people -- as many as double the current toll, according to one World Health Organization (WHO) official. (Full story)
WHO's David Nabarro told CNN that survivors are at risk of diarrhea, respiratory infections and insect-borne diseases that could result in "quite high rates of death," but he quickly added that the living are in more danger from other survivors than from the dead. (Full story)
"The fundamental need at the moment is to look after the well-being of living people and to make sure that they have what they need for life," he said.
"And the requirement to properly dispose of dead people through burial or some other method in a way that is appropriate for the local tradition is certainly there. But it's not urgent from the point of view of public health."
Nabarro also said the mental health of the survivors is at risk. "Tremendous mental scarring" results from disasters like this one, he said.
Yvette Stevens of U.N. Emergency Relief said rebuilding would likely cost "billions" -- and completing the job "could take years."
Jan Egeland, the United Nations' emergency relief coordinator, said $220 million had been pledged or donated so far, and about the same in "in-kind donations" such as supplies and personnel.
The death count continues to climb.
On Thursday, Indonesian official said the death toll had nearly doubled, from 45,000 to 79,940.
Sri Lankan authorities increased its death toll on Wednesday to 23,015 with more than 4,000 people still reported missing. The flooding also injured more than 8,200 people.
International aid convoys arrived Wednesday in Galle on the southwest corner of the island, bringing drinking water and other aid to residents.
Officials have little information from the north and east -- the hardest hit areas and, like Indonesia's northern Sumatra, home to an armed insurgency, although one that was under the terms of a cease-fire at the time of the disaster.
Across Sri Lanka, some 1.5 million people have been forced to leave their homes and more than 745,000 no longer have homes. They crowded shelters and wandered aimlessly down streets, past signs wishing a "happy new year."
In the coastal town of Matara, locals said some 30 to 40 Western tourists were surfing when the tsunami hit, and all are missing and presumed dead. Police are trying to stem looting, which broke out shortly after the disaster, as relief slowly trickles into the area.
Just before the towering waves washed over Sri Lanka, they swamped the vacation shores of Thailand, home to 40 percent of the country's $10 billion tourism industry.
Thai officials have confirmed 1,830 deaths, more than 1,000 of which are believed to have been in the low-lying coastal province of Phang Na.
Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Thursday that casualties in his country from Sunday's tsunami could reach 3,000.
Shinawatra said 519 of the total were foreigners, and there are 4,265 people missing.
Some of Thailand's smaller vacation islands were swallowed by the water, Thailand's Foreign Minister Surakiart Sathirathai said.
As far away as Somalia on Africa's east coast, reports trickled in of fishermen swept out to sea and swimmers lost. Egeland said entire villages were swept away in Somalia, and Kenya television reporter Lillian Odera said "hundreds" were killed there.
In all, at least 11 countries -- including the Maldives, Myanmar, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Tanzania -- were affected by the monstrous waves.
CNN correspondents Hugh Riminton in Colombo, Sri Lanka; Satinder Bindra in Matara, Sri Lanka; Atika Shubert and Mike Chinoy in Banda Aceh, Indonesia; Aneesh Raman and Matthew Chance near Phuket, Thailand; Suhasini Haidar in Chennai, India; and journalist Iqbal Athas in Sri Lanka contributed to this report.
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| Plastick |
| quote: | Originally posted by MiB
nice sigg dude ;) nah.. i still have friends who have friends there but i think theres no hope anymore.. i mean.. STILL 1500+ missing from sweden.. hmm..
i saw this pic on a newspage.. VERY graphic so dont watch if u dont wanna..
crazy what mother earth can do
http://hem.bredband.net/miba/hm.jpg |
MY GOODNESS!
Our death toll have reached 7 from 3 earlier... bad. My friends and I have thought of going to the town to donate some clothes tomorrow... |
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| Plastick |
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Millions homeless as tsunami toll nears 119,000, new quakes scare survivors
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia : Up to five million people were displaced by tsunamis that killed nearly 119,000 people in Asia, officials said, as aftershocks rocked traumatised survivors.
"We estimate that up to five million people have been displaced and are at risk across the region," Harsaran Pandey, spokeswoman for the World Health Organisation in South Asia, told AFP.
The global health body said between one and three million of those affected were in Indonesia, with another one million in Sri Lanka. The rest were spread between India, the Maldives and other nations.
The estimate came as a government warning that high waves could strike again from aftershocks rattling Indonesia sent thousands fleeing in panic from the coastline of southern India.
"The waves are coming," people yelled as they fled on foot, buses and any transport they could find.
The latest quake, measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale, hit northwest of Indonesia's Sumatra island city of Medan shortly after 4:00 am (2100 GMT Wednesday), after two quakes measuring 5.1 and 5.2 the previous evening, but experts said they were not big enough to cause tidal waves.
Sunday's killer tsunamis were unleashed by a gigantic 9.0 magnitude tectonic shift 150 kilometres (93 miles) off Sumatra, rolling on across the Indian Ocean to wreak havoc in 11 countries.
Nearly 119,000 people are confirmed dead, thousands are missing, and the toll is expected to rise sharply with disease threatening the lives of survivors.
Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono pushed Thursday for a UN-sponsored international conference to discuss relief operations for affected nations.
Yudhoyono said he had already received support for the proposal from UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and US President George W. Bush.
The president also urged separatist rebels in the earthquake and tsunami-ravaged province of Aceh on Sumatra to lay down their weapons and join efforts to rebuild the region.
"I call on those who are still raising arms, to come out... let us use this historic momentum to join and be united again," Yudhoyono told a press conference.
Meanwhile, the international effort to bring aid to Aceh cranked slowly into gear but the program was hampered by transport problems as the death toll continued to rise.
Around 80,000 people in Aceh have been confirmed killed by the tsunami.
"Much of Aceh, which was closest to the epicentre of the earthquake, has been leveled and the local population urgently needs shelter and basic living supplies," the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers said. "The numbers and the needs are absolutely staggering."
In another hard-hit country facing a separatist insurgency, Sri Lanka, the tragedy which has hit government and rebels alike seems also to be provoking signs of a change of attitude.
An AFP correspondent who made it through to areas controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was told by an official in charge of medical coordination that "contrary to routine the army will not check the vehicles going to the rebel zones."
And in Tamil regions controlled by the army, the "military is helping all communities, and that includes Tamils," said a medical student Kiruben Tharmalingam, 22.
President George W. Bush announced the United States, Australia, Japan and India would spearhead the international response to the catastrophe and urged other nations to join.
The United Nations chief emergency relief coordinator, Jan Egeland, welcomed the move, saying it would complement UN efforts.
But long before the bureaucratic wheels of relief creaked into operation, ordinary people in the devastated areas pitched in to help survivors who have now lived for five days amidst unspeakable horrors.
Remarkable tales of heartwarming generosity emerged amid the chaos and grief. Throughout the hardest-hit countries of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and India, people came forward to help, donating clothes and food while tending the wounded.
Others set about the more grisly task of disposing of the bloated corpses that litter beaches and streets and threaten public health.
"I heard that they needed some help, so I came," explained Sangitan Senaphan, a 20-year-old volunteer at a hospital in Phuket, Thailand.
"I just want to help people," said hotelier Khun Wan who was offering free food and accommodation to foreign tourists struggling to cope in the aftermath of the tragedy.
At least 710 foreigners are among the 2,394 confirmed to have died after tidal waves battered southwest Thailand, the interior ministry said Thursday, with 6,130 still missing, many of them foreigners.
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra suggested Thailand's final death toll could approach 6,800, as European nations joined Thais in trying to trace thousands of missing people.
Sweden and Germany have each said that more than 1,000 of their nationals are unaccounted for, while 446 Norwegians and several hundred French are missing.
Across the region families opened their homes to bewildered survivors and strangers offered the shirts off their backs to foreigners in swimwear left with nothing but their lives.
Dutchwoman Irene Nicastro, who was forced to flee empty-handed as her hotel room in Galle in southern Sri Lanka filled with water, was touched by the generosity shown to her by locals.
"Despite their own losses, they took care of us," she said, and pledged to raise money to help Sri Lankans cope with their losses when she gets back to her wealthier lifestyle.
With governments and aid organisations grappling with overwhelming relief tasks, wealthy and ordinary citizens have dug deep into their pockets as the world collectively reels at the scale of the catastrophe.
Spurring the outpouring of generosity are the endless tales of suffering emerging from coastlines around South and Southeast Asia.
For some, it has all been too much.
At Banda Aceh's main Baiturrahman mosque, a 20th century Moorish structure filled with the stench of rotting flesh, a lone man in a dirty white t-shirt and jeans sat in a corner mumbling to himself and others.
"He has lost it," said an attendant, helping an old man with a festering wound on one of his legs whom he said had yet to utter a single word in two days.
Children have been among the hardest hit by the tragedy, swept off their feet by the power of the waves and drowned, or losing their parents and siblings. And for some, the killer tsunamis are coming again, over and over, in their nightmares.
Malaysian Rahibah Osman's 11-year-old son, Mohamad Fikri Rahim, who was caught by ferocious waves "as high as coconut trees and blackened with mud", has troubled dreams in Penang General Hospital after being saved by his father.
He cries in his sleep and shouts "No, no!", his mother, 49, told AFP.
"I don't know what he's talking about, but when I ask him, he starts to cry," she said.
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| jonSun |
http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/news.php?id=111574
Indonesia Needs Help, Death Toll Expected To Exceed 400,000
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 30 (Bernama) -- The death toll in Acheh, the region worst hit by last Sunday's tsunami, may exceed 400,000 as many affected areas could still not be reached for search and rescue operations, Indonesia's Ambassador to Malaysia Drs H. Rusdihardjo said Thursday.
He said the estimate was based on air surveillance by Indonesian authorities who found no signs of life in places like Meulaboh, Pulau Simeulue and Tapak Tuan while several islands off the west coast of Sumatera had "disappeared".
He said the latest death toll of more than 40,000 in Acheh and northern Sumatera did not take into account the figures from the other areas, especially in the west of the region
HOLY SHIET 400K. THIS IS THE WORST. |
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