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5th largest earthquaake since 1900 (pg. 9)
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| Jackson |
thanks for clearing that up.
anyone know how badly Borneo was hit? i'm supposed to be going there in 2006.
Also (for you TA geologists) ass the tidal waves have travelled west and affected Africa (Around 150 killed there now), is it possible that the wave could be travelling east and affect places like Hawaii and west coast US? i mean not cause destruction but just some larger waves maybe? |
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| MiB |
| quote: | Originally posted by smallSHEEP
wow those are amazing. I can't belive the guy in the second one kept filming! |
swedish guy.. he has not like anywhere to go so just keeps filming..
to much ppl already missing from sweden so far..poor ppl.. have heard that friends that i have downthere should be home again now.. i hope.. |
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| Jackson |
I remember when i watched it on bbc when it waas "Breaking news" maybe 30mins - 1hour after it happened and they said up to 90 people were killed, the a couple of hours later it was 650.....now it just keeps going up and up! |
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| Magnetonium |
| WOW ... this is really raising some chills for me ... I wonder how high can this go. .... this is terrible |
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| Plastick |
FOREIGNERS DEATH TOLL as @ 2220 SST on 28 Dec>>
Countries Deaths Missing
Austria 4
Australia 8 10
Belgium 2 30
Brazil 2
Canada 3
China - 7
Czech Republic - 381
Denmark 2
Finland 1 200
France 10 18
Germany 4 100
Italy 11 100
Japan 9
Netherlands 1
New Zealand 1
Norway 13
Poland 4 43
Portugal - 3
Singapore* 2
South Africa 2 2
South Korea 3 12
Sweden 10
Taiwan 1
Turkey - 26
UK 16
USA 11
Total 120 934
Source: Reuters
* Singapore's Foreign Affairs Ministry says 16 Singaporeans are also missing.
| quote: | Originally posted by Jackson
I remember when i watched it on bbc when it waas "Breaking news" maybe 30mins - 1hour after it happened and they said up to 90 people were killed, the a couple of hours later it was 650.....now it just keeps going up and up! |
At this rate, i think it can easily hit 100k :( |
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| _Supreme |
| yeah, I'm afraid it will hit the 100,000 |
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| stren |
| quote: | Originally posted by _Supreme
yeah, I'm afraid it will hit the 100,000 |
i've heard it hit 100k already. Source unknown |
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| _Supreme |
| quote: | Originally posted by stren
i've heard it hit 100k already. Source unknown |
weird, skyned just said 59,000.
59,000 confirmed dead |
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| Plastick |
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Asian disaster toll surges past 55,000 as relief operations stall
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia : Logistical problems hampered a massive humanitarian relief operation along Asia's devastated shores as the death toll from a huge earthquake and killer tidal waves surged past 55,000.
With the scale of the catastrophe rapidly unfolding, the confirmed number of dead in 10 countries shot up to 55,175, with Indonesia's Aceh province accounting for half of those killed, or 27,174.
In Sri Lanka, 17,640 are dead.
The fear that outbreaks of disease could unleash a second wave of tragedy on a region struggling to cope with the first also loomed large with decomposing bodies and sewerage contaminating water sources.
In some areas food and medicines were in desperately short supply.
In India's Andaman and Nicobar islands, where at least 4,000 people are confirmed dead, coastguard officials said the toll on Car Nicobar alone could top 10,000.
Police said they had received no word from dozens of islands in the Andaman and Nicobar chain which stretch over 800 kilometres (496 miles) and were close to the epicentre of the earthquake.
In Thailand, the toll rose to 1,516, with 8,432 injured and about 1,200 listed as missing, the interior ministry said.
More than 700 foreign tourists are believed to be among those killed, and relatives across Europe were desperately seeking news of missing loved ones.
The quake Sunday, the biggest in 40 years at 9.0 on the Richter scale, ruptured the Indian Ocean seabed off Indonesia's Sumatra island, sending huge waves thousands of kilometres (miles) to kill and destroy in countries around southern and southeast Asia and even in Africa.
In Indonesia, the death toll leapt suddenly as casualties were tallied from Aceh Jaya, an isolated region on the northwestern coast of badly-hit Sumatra island which lies less than 150 kilometres (120 miles) from the quake's epicentre.
Officials have said the figure is expected to keep climbing.
Bodies continued to be pulled from washed out trains, cars and smashed buildings in Sri Lanka, as the death toll jumped above 17,000.
Mass funerals were taking place across the region amid scenes of traumatic grief as bodies lay rotting along coastlines to a point where identification was no longer possible.
"The people should be buried and the animals should be destroyed and disposed of before they infect the drinking water. It's a massive operation," said UN disaster relief coordinator Jan Egeland.
Gruesome scenes met emergency teams in the worst hit countries of Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia and Thailand, while the death tolls ticked up even in the less affected areas of Malaysia, the Maldives and Myanmar.
As survivors were evacuated from stricken areas tales of 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 villages swept away.
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 injured and corpses.
The UN's Egeland told a press conference at its headquarters in New York that relief operations would be the biggest ever as the destruction was not confined to one country or region.
"The cost of the devastation will be in the billions of dollars. It would probably be many billions of dollars," he said.
As events unfolded, aid agencies warned that the threat of disease was growing, but efforts to rush relief to the worst-hit areas met logistical problems, particularly in remote Aceh at the far northern tip of Sumatra island.
"It is going to be a huge problem getting relief even out of the airport," Michael Enquist, the head of the United Nations Organisation for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, told AFP of Aceh.
Even though the region was crying out for body bags and sanitation, and aid as flooding in, there was no way of getting it to where it was most needed.
"There is no petrol, no food, no water and no vehicles available," he said.
In Sri Lanka, drinking water wells were already badly contaminated with sea water, government minister Susil Premajayantha said, but the biggest fear is of water contamination by decomposing bodies which could spark epidemics of cholera and typhoid, experts warned.
"The biggest health challenges we are facing are the spread of waterborne diseases," said International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies health official Hakan Sandbladh.
Compounding the problem is the huge number of people left homeless, and a lack of food.
In Aceh province, a lone SOS call from police in cut-off Meulaboh said looting had broken out and starvation loomed.
"If within three to four days relief does not arrive, there will be a starvation disaster that will cause mass deaths," chief police detective Rilo Pambudi said in the e-mail, released by officials in Jakarta.
In southern India, vultures gathered as survivors grimly buried or burnt their dead. The number of dead passed 8,500 Tuesday.
Tens of thousands spent the night huddling in emergency relief camps as the government stepped up relief efforts and the Indian Red Cross appealed for food, clothes and tarpaulins.
In the worst-hit Indian state of Tamil Nadu, fisherman A. Ravi wept as he recalled watching his family, including four children, swept away as his village was flattened.
"We went fishing in the early morning and a few hours later the water started swirling around us and suddenly the level went down so sharply we could see the seabed," said Ravi.
"Then I saw a huge sheet of water going towards the shore... when I got back I found my village under water and my family gone," he said.
Similar stories of personal tragedy were repeated throughout the region, with new horrors revealed each time rescuers reach previously cut off areas.
As countries mobilised their resources thelp the victims, dazed foreigners began flying home -- still struggling to come to grips with what had happened.
The waves triggered by the quake were so powerful that the destruction reached the shores of Africa about 7,000 kilometres (4,000 miles) away, killing more than 100 Somali fishermen.
The tragedy has sparked a growing chorus of calls for a tsunami alert system, as many victims were swept from coastlines hours after the quake which triggered the giant waves was recorded.
- AFP
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| Ken_Allen |
| What dumbasses just standing there watching the waves by that pool...aren't you supposed to run when you see a 40ft wave coming at you? |
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| Jackson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ken_Allen
What dumbasses just standing there watching the waves by that pool...aren't you supposed to run when you see a 40ft wave coming at you? |
It can be quite hypnotising in a way....you know, its not everyday u see a tidal wave...but yeah they should have moved quicker |
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