View Full Version : Tragedy in Asia ~!!! Thousands killed by tidal waves
drakkie
12-26-2004, 07:11 AM
I found this out a couple of minutes ago.Off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra an earthquake(8.9 at the Richter scale) at the sea floor, caused a big tidal wave or Tsoenami to emerge.This tsoenami struck land throughout the entire coast of the Indian Ocean, causing a huge devastation.Thousands of people were killed and many others injured,many people are still missing.....
This is so sad to happen on Christmas, when noone should be killed.Nor by violence nor by nature... I hope the entire western world gives money, food, medicins and building materials to aid the people struck by this disaster...
For further news i'd like to refer to cnn.com
yea i saw,i think it strike 6 country i am not sure...
but thousand, thousand peoples stay without home and others die...
was terrible :o
P3RG4R3C
12-26-2004, 09:12 AM
I'm sorry for those, who became homeless and for those, who died.
(This wasn't a tidal wave but a wave caused by an earthquake.)
6'bore
12-26-2004, 12:09 PM
My uncle is there and we haven't heard from him yet so this is a touchy thread :(
stratos
12-26-2004, 12:34 PM
rip to all those who died .... :(
Coventrysucks
12-26-2004, 12:38 PM
My uncle is there and we haven't heard from him yet so this is a touchy thread :(
It would be if people were making light of the situation, but since they aren't I don't see a problem with people expressing their condolences.
Chinky_boi
12-26-2004, 02:00 PM
the earthquake was a 8.9Magnitude. That is huge... The one that striked San fran a couple months ago was only 6 magnitude.
QuattroMan
12-26-2004, 04:56 PM
so far 11k people dead that is not nice it all... :(
spi-ti-tout
12-26-2004, 05:05 PM
May we take 5 mins to say a silent prayer and hope that all is well over there(we all know that we would not like to be in their situation, so this is the best we can do for now).
Matra et Alpine
12-26-2004, 05:10 PM
My uncle is there and we haven't heard from him yet so this is a touchy thread :(
Yeah a biker mate of mine is out there with his family.
We're all praying he's OK and our thoughts are with those who have lost family friends and their homes.
Very sad :(
r1ckst4
12-26-2004, 05:22 PM
my Grandpa lives in one of the cities in the island of Sumatra, around the centre of the quake.
In the attached picture is just a little discription of where he lives...
the BLUE dot is his city and the RED dot is the centre of the quake....
We rang my grandma (who live in another city) last nite and she said that my grandpa felt the quake and ran outside quickly.... but jhe's okay... so i was glad. *phew*
PsychoChimp22
12-26-2004, 07:04 PM
I was just watching the news and they said 12,000+ people died.
There are no words for how..... bad.... this is.
werty
12-26-2004, 07:56 PM
This is insane!!! I have been watching it on the new from time to time today. I feel so bad for those people.
And then i read this...."More than 200 prisoners escaped from a jail when the tsunami knocked down its walls"
^now thats gonna suck
taz_rocks_miami
12-26-2004, 08:46 PM
CNN says 15,000 dead so far and God knows how many missing and homeless. My condolences to those who died and prayers for those (specially UCPiers) who've yet to hear from friends or family.
IBrake4Rainbows
12-26-2004, 11:39 PM
The Earthquake struck an area around 300Km from the Island of Sumatra. The area closest to the Earthquake, recently rounded up to a 9.0, was Aceh, which is a war-torn province of Indonesia. not much is known about the damage of this area because of the tight military presence there.
Major areas hit include Sri Lanka, India, The Maldives, Thailand (the resort of Phuket was hit exceptionally hard, with many tourist casualties) And the wave, caused by the earthquake, and hence a Tsunami, has been felt as far a field as Somalia and The West Coast of Australia.
Recent Aftershocks have been felt as heavy as 7.0 on the richter scale. a Huge disaster as these areas do not have the best infrastructure and the spread of disease and the threat of more aftershocks/tidal waves looms large.
There was a headline on CNN last night saying that an Italian scientist claims that the teutonic activity in that area is so volatile that it is actually affecting the rotation of the Earth. That's nuts.
man 430gt
12-27-2004, 07:06 AM
Very hoffic news, my prayers are with everyone effected by this deversation
:(
22,000 dead now! :eek: - not the final figures.
man 430gt
12-27-2004, 07:40 AM
22,000 dead now! :eek: - not the final figures.
Are you totally sure about that!! :eek: Because that number is EXTREAMLY DISTURBING! Man thats just terrible wish I could do something to help :mad: :mad:
werty
12-27-2004, 08:03 AM
If the aftershocks are 7.0's, even that is terribly huge. Wont that just bring more and more, slighty smaller, yet deadly tsunami's?
VtecMini
12-27-2004, 09:04 AM
It's 23,000 now, according to BBC teletext.
My brother went on holiday to the Maldives a few weeks ago and only came back last week, couldn't believe it when I saw it on the news, scary stuff. My heart goes out to all those that lost family out there, I can't imagine what it's like.
Coventrysucks
12-27-2004, 09:12 AM
I have to say that I wouldn't be surprised if the final figure was over 100,000.
People always assume that we are so powerful because of technology. But when it comes down to it, Homo Sapiens are no better off than any other creature when you take into account the alarmingly large number of natural disasters that can occur.
These disasters are always exacerbated by the fact that the often affect the poorest areas of the world, where help is diffucult to get.
I hope those of you waiting to hear from friends or relatives recieve good news, and any UCPers from the region are as well as can be hoped for in the circumstances.
Rockefella
12-27-2004, 09:27 AM
Wow, according to the Associated Press, these huge walls of water/Tsunami hit the coastlines at over 500 mph. :eek: :( Seeing all these bodies lying in mass graves makes you think about the havoc that Mother Earth can unleash. :(
henk4
12-27-2004, 09:55 AM
It's 23,000 now, according to BBC teletext.
My brother went on holiday to the Maldives a few weeks ago and only came back last week, couldn't believe it when I saw it on the news, scary stuff. My heart goes out to all those that lost family out there, I can't imagine what it's like.
To put things in perspective, the disaster happened exactly one year after Bam in Iran was totally destroyed, killing 30,000 people. However as already said before, the death toll now is sure to rise further and 100,000 might become a scaring reality.
6'bore
12-27-2004, 12:31 PM
It would be if people were making light of the situation, but since they aren't I don't see a problem with people expressing their condolences.
I meant for me. I have no problem with this thread
PsychoChimp22
12-27-2004, 01:59 PM
I was just watching the news and they said over 23,000. If that is any confirmation.
Quiggs
12-27-2004, 02:03 PM
23,700 on msn.com...
CdocZ
12-27-2004, 02:17 PM
woooooow.......you know........mother nature sometimes really sucks ass.
Plutus
12-27-2004, 02:25 PM
Ricksta - Glad you Grandpa is OK! My sister-in-law's family are out in Malaysia - thankfully they're OK. My best mate is in India - haven't heard back yet!
Good luck to anyone who has friends or family out there and more to the point, good luck to all those out there!
Coventrysucks
12-27-2004, 02:33 PM
23,700 on msn.com...
Its is pointess quoting such a specific number merely days after such a disaster.
r1ckst4
12-27-2004, 04:09 PM
Ricksta - Glad you Grandpa is OK! My sister-in-law's family are out in Malaysia - thankfully they're OK. My best mate is in India - haven't heard back yet!
Good luck to anyone who has friends or family out there and more to the point, good luck to all those out there!
thanks... i don't know his situation now... after more quake arrived... :( i heard there were a couple more earthquake measuring 7 in the richter scale... i hope he's okay.
IBrake4Rainbows
12-27-2004, 04:39 PM
Interesting little facts for you.
When this was going on i was watching the news channels on my Cable TV.
BBC: Covered it first
Sky News: Had a Dedicated Tsunami Channel
CNN: Covered it quite well, but kept up reasonable programming
CNBC: Missed it, but there a business channel anyway
Bloomberg:Covered it during their Asia Business segment
Fox News: Played "Portraits of a Soldier:Heroes of Iraq" for the majority of the breaking news segments, then covered it.......about 3 hours later.
That's just very telling.........
spi-ti-tout
12-27-2004, 05:06 PM
Have a few relatives in India...haven't heard from them since. All this news is terribly discouraging. :(
PsychoChimp22
12-28-2004, 01:01 AM
Have a few relatives in India...haven't heard from them since. All this news is terribly discouraging. :(
Where do they live? Coast?!?
I hope theyre ok.
drakkie
12-28-2004, 01:41 AM
Well, we heard it from CNN first and in the late afternoon, the first Dutch news broadcasting were coming.The didnt have a news broadcast, cos of christmas.Anyway, cnn.com now says over 26.000 people are killed.i really hope that the family of me that live in Indonesia are ok.Many of them live on Java and the Molukken(soryy, dunno english name for it).
My dad just told me the wave hit Africa too, causing chaos and devastation there too...
werty
12-28-2004, 08:38 AM
Well, we heard it from CNN first and in the late afternoon, the first Dutch news broadcasting were coming.The didnt have a news broadcast, cos of christmas.Anyway, cnn.com now says over 26.000 people are killed.i really hope that the family of me that live in Indonesia are ok.Many of them live on Java and the Molukken(soryy, dunno english name for it).
My dad just told me the wave hit Africa too, causing chaos and devastation there too...
yeah, i just heard 900 were killed in Africa :(
Rockefella
12-28-2004, 08:45 AM
My browser's mainpage says the deathtoll is at 44,000 and sadly, it probably won't stop increasing for another two or three days. I hope everyone over there will be ok. :(
now is about 29.000(+) deads and thousand are disapear...
and how there isnt homes others 29000 can die because havent water and house....
6'bore
12-28-2004, 01:27 PM
I heard from my uncle today so I just hope its the same story for many of other people with family or friends out there :(
spi-ti-tout
12-28-2004, 02:01 PM
Where do they live? Coast?!?
I hope theyre ok.
Thanks. They live somewhere around the lower middle of india.
Coventrysucks
12-28-2004, 02:12 PM
BBC now saying 59,000 with many thousands still unaccounted for.
In a marvel of tasteless programme planning the BBC had a house make-over programme, Changing Rooms for those of you who might know, were they redecorated the homes of people who's houses were damaged by flood water in Boscastle earlier this year.
Nice :rolleyes:
werty
12-28-2004, 08:28 PM
Its is pointess quoting such a specific number merely days after such a disaster.
BBC now saying 59,000 with many thousands still unaccounted for.
interesting.....
Esperante
12-28-2004, 08:37 PM
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel--today's front cover has an image that will keep me up tonight :( I guess this is where my Christmas money is going to go ......
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/Q/QUAKE_TIDAL_WAVE?SITE=WIMIL&SECTION=HOME
The number of deaths right now is 78,000. There are still islands that officials haven't even gotten to yet. They say the initial death toll is easily over 100,000 and the final toll after disease, starvation and thirst could top 250,000.
Esperante
12-29-2004, 09:16 AM
The death toll (according to associated press) is around 76,700. If the expected 250,000 is acquired, imagine a city like Cleveland or Edinburgh just being wiped clean off the face of the earth, and you'd have a somehwhat equal comparision.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/Q/QUAKE_TSUNAMI?SITE=WIMIL&SECTION=HOME
werty
12-29-2004, 09:28 AM
Woah, 250,000! I really hope that doesn't happen, that is terrible :(
Esperante
12-29-2004, 09:30 AM
http://hosted.ap.org/photos/J/JAK21212291612-big.jpg
An aerial view shows tsunami-damaged Meulaboh town, West Aceh, Indonesia, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2004. Officials have recovered 3,400 bodies in the village so far, but they said they expect to find at least 10,000 died here from Sunday's 9.0 magnitude underwater earthquake and massive tidal waves. (AP Photo/ANTARA)
The worse part is, along the coastline of the Canary Islands are a series of volcanos with tall, loose cliffs hanging over the ocean. If anything disturbs these cliffs, the enitre East Coast could meet up with a 75 foot tsunami, obliterating Long Island, New York, Boston, Savannah, Jacksonville, and maybe even Washington DC. It would also devestate Southern England, West Africa and Spain and Portugal.
Here's a few articles on the latter matter- http://www.skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=63871
werty
12-29-2004, 09:43 AM
I heard that since the earthquake, earth days are now micro-seconds shorter, because it disrupted the earth's rotation. :eek:
Some scientists are warning that this could just be the first in a series of more massive earthquakes. :eek:
Esperante
12-29-2004, 09:44 AM
Makes me want to Hide In (Your) My Shell. :(
Wow, living in the very center of the country doesn't seem so bad right now. :o
SPHFerrari
12-29-2004, 10:04 AM
esperante, i have also seen a few tv shows and articles on this situation. its a bit scary! i live about 20 miles inland but my dad and lots of peopel we know work in boston.
Esperante
12-29-2004, 10:13 AM
Where in the metro do you live?
Anyway, folks should all move to Milwuakee-1128' above sea level and proud of it :D
Rockefella
12-29-2004, 10:18 AM
esperante, i have also seen a few tv shows and articles on this situation. its a bit scary! i live about 20 miles inland but my dad and lots of peopel we know work in boston.
same here, but like 10 miles inland, and 4 miles from the Hudson.
Esperante
12-29-2004, 10:32 AM
Wouldn't matter how far inland you live, but how high up. The Hudson lies in a little bit of a valley,but the proposed tragedy from the Canary Islands could easily flood New York City as well as the 'Day After Tomorrow' showed it. And I'm completely serious when I sawy 15 stories worth of water could flood the east coast.
werty
12-29-2004, 11:29 AM
Or how about just moving to Arizona, where there is no water. And your surrounded by Mountains :p
Esperante
12-29-2004, 11:31 AM
Or how about just moving to Arizona, where there is no water. And your surrounded by Mountains :p
Wow that sounds fun.
tmnt_ppn
12-29-2004, 11:57 AM
i'm deeply sorry for those victims of this horrible disaster. i live in jakarta, indonesia, and everyone here's is doing whatever they can to help the victims. indonesia will be very thankfull for those willing to help us as material and spiritual support is badly needed.
Coventrysucks
12-29-2004, 12:15 PM
Bush said that the USA is sending "$35 billion" in immediate cash relief.
They are actually sending $35 million. Quite a big difference there. It is a VERY good job he wasn't giving an address about the economy, it could have been nasty.
tmnt_ppn
12-29-2004, 01:05 PM
workforce is also required such as doctors, etc...
spi-ti-tout
12-30-2004, 06:43 PM
The end of the world as we know it...
VtecMini
01-01-2005, 02:40 PM
In a marvel of tasteless programme planning...On thursday night the film AI was on some channel or another, it appeared to open with thousands of people being killed by coastal flooding, I'm really surprised that one got through. I could be wrong about what I saw, mind you. Cos I wasn't really paying a lot of attention.Bush said that the USA is sending "$35 billion" in immediate cash relief. I saw that too. I laughed at how it was picked up by one of our broadcasters, but after doing a google for a related story, nobody else had picked up on it. I'd be embaressed to say that he runs my country if I were american.