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Asian tsunami kills thousands (pg. 3)
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| tw1tch |
They are predicting the death toll to rise substantially with the onset of disease. I think if everyone can fork over money for a club, it shouldn't be to hard to make a donation to the Canadian Red Cross (www.redcross.ca)
I can't begin to imagine their reality right now and what's to come in the coming weeks. |
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| girllovingtvibe |
| My thoughts and prayers are with those who lost... |
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| dallastar |
so sad:(
the death toll is increasing every moment:(
this really saddens me:(
;)
mother nature " I AM MAD AT YOU!!!" :confused: |
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| b4k-oz |
| quote: | Originally posted by tw1tch
They are predicting the death toll to rise substantially with the onset of disease. I think if everyone can fork over money for a club, it shouldn't be to hard to make a donation to the Canadian Red Cross (www.redcross.ca)
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Def in agreement with you. I know I'll be contacting redcross real soon too.:sadgreen: |
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| DancingQueen169 |
My prayers go out to everyone touched by this horrible disaster. :(
I was just watching the news brief on the TV and apparently there are 3 Canadians among the thousands that have died.. |
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| RobbyG. |
| I'm starting to see some videos on CNN of those Tsunamis crashing on shore...I've never seen anything like that:eek: ...They say Tsunamis can get as high as 50 feet high & maybe even higher in the right conditions...in scary :sadgreen: |
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| tw1tch |
| quote: | Originally posted by b4k-oz
Def in agreement with you. I know I'll be contacting redcross real soon too.:sadgreen: |
Made a donation earlier today, this has really hit me, we are so luckly to live where we do. I can't really put it into words, I'm just in shock at the magnitude of destruction/death. Sure, 24000 people are reported dead now, but that number is only going up, and will go up quite a bit. How about the other millions of people in those regions who made it so far, life isn't back to normal, the destruction, unimaginable.
Some stats I found about the tsunami and the quake.
Travels around 500KM/h+ from the epicenter of the quake, slowing as it reaches shore down to ~45km/h at the shore, rising upto ~20ft. It's not just the same kind of wave you see at the beach generated by wind either.
Tsunamis are unlike wind-generated waves on a lake or at a beach. They are characterised as shallow-water waves, with long periods and wave lengths. The wind-generated swell at a beach spawned by a storm in the sea and rolling in, one wave after another, might have a period of about 10 seconds and a wave length of 150 m. A tsunami can have a wavelength in excess of 100 km and period of one hour.
A 9.0 quake releases the equivalent energy of 32 billion tons of TNT, or more than 2 million times the force of the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
The quake itself affected the Earths normal rotation. |
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| Jayx1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by tw1tch
The quake itself affected the Earths normal rotation. |
I wonder if we will have to reset our clocks |
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| dallastar |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jayx1
I wonder if we will have to reset our clocks |
i don't think so. . . :sadgreen: |
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| dEsidEL |
i juss realized that this pic may no longer exist .. :(
^^^ Maldives ..
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| The Highroller |
| I agree with you Kevin. It has really hit me hard too. Here I am playing video games and surfing TA, meanwhile at the other side of the world tens of thousands of people have died for no apparent reason. This a nearly if not totally unpreventable disaster. |
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| Fir3start3r |
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The following non-profit organizations are among those collecting donations to help survivors of the Dec. 26 tsunami:
Canadian Red Cross
1-800-418-1111
(or donate through your local Red Cross office)
UNICEF Canada
1-800-567-4483
UNICEF Canada
2200 Yonge St., Suite 1100
Toronto, Ont.
M4S 2C6
Oxfam Canada
1-800-466-9326
Asian Earthquake/Floods Relief, Oxfam Canada
200-215 Spadina Avenue
Toronto, Ont.
M5T 2C7
World Vision Canada
1-800-268-5528
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