8.9 EarthQuake and Tsunami

[FordGTGuy]

An 8.9 Earthquake, the largest in 40 years, rocked Indonesia today along with a Tsunami that traveled 3,600 miles in a Minute and a half that hit India. They killed over 11,600 people. A better review then mine.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041227/D877MDP80.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6754820/?GT1=5936

EDIT-

Tsunami Animations

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/animations/tsunami/index.html

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami/research.html

[possessed_beaver]

i was just about to post this, very tragic indeed!

but i expect limited news coverage after a couple of days, after all it diden't happen in america.

aparantley it hit alot of holiday resorts, so we could possibley expect deaths from all over the world.

[FordGTGuy]

yeah alask had a 3.2 an hour after

[FordGTGuy]

http://www.mrsmcgowan.com/world_map.jpg

http://img95.exs.cx/img95/6272/mindoquake0412266sx.gif

[possessed_beaver]

can they estalish yet weither the plated moved verticaly or horizontality?

becuase one can cause a bigger wave then the other,

[ZfrkS62]

i can never believe how destructive nature can be. I can't even imagne how it must have looked/felt to those affected by the tsunami. How horrible it had to have been for those people :(

[CSedl87]

can they estalish yet weither the plated moved verticaly or horizontality?

becuase one can cause a bigger wave then the other,
They say it created a 620mile hole in the earth. Geologists are saying that it has affected the earths spin, and will affect the weather accordingly.

[FordGTGuy]

This is one tragic way to end christmas :(
Unbelievable how fast the tsunamis travel, 500 mph :shock: Is there any videos of what happened? I missed the news in here.

if it was moving lets say 3600 miles in a min. then it was moving 216,000 mph closest thing to the speed of light in a long time probably.

[numerouno]

Many of the poor people could've been saved if they were informed of Tsunami possibility in advance :(

[FordGTGuy]

can they estalish yet weither the plated moved verticaly or horizontality?

becuase one can cause a bigger wave then the other,



http://www.bsms.fcps.net/dept/science/Earth%20Science/plate%20tectonics/tectonic%20pix/major%20tectonic%20plates%20of%20the%20world.gif

[FordGTGuy]

This is one tragic way to end christmas :(
Unbelievable how fast the tsunamis travel, 500 mph :shock: Is there any videos of what happened? I missed the news in here.

if it was moving lets say 3600 miles in a min. then it was moving 216,000 mph closest thing to the speed of light in a long time probably.

Where did you get those numbers?

from an article you honestly believe that a force of 30 billion dynamite going off at one time would only make a wave go 500 mph?

[ZfrkS62]

can they estalish yet weither the plated moved verticaly or horizontality?

becuase one can cause a bigger wave then the other,
They say it created a 620mile hole in the earth. Geologists are saying that it has affected the earths spin, and will affect the weather accordingly.

620mile hole? holy fuck. did they say if it is located along the plates that shifted? or if we would notice any changes right away?

this kind of thing always gets interesting. especially when the effects aren't as obvious as say a volcanic eruption.

[dingo]

This is one tragic way to end christmas :(
Unbelievable how fast the tsunamis travel, 500 mph :shock: Is there any videos of what happened? I missed the news in here.

if it was moving lets say 3600 miles in a min. then it was moving 216,000 mph closest thing to the speed of light in a long time probably.

just think about what you just wrote.....as if a wave could travel at 216,000mph.....that made me laugh so hard :P
I heard on the news it was about 500kmh, which is alot more reasonable then the crazy figure you calculated. :shock:

[ZfrkS62]

This is one tragic way to end christmas :(
Unbelievable how fast the tsunamis travel, 500 mph :shock: Is there any videos of what happened? I missed the news in here.

if it was moving lets say 3600 miles in a min. then it was moving 216,000 mph closest thing to the speed of light in a long time probably.

just think about what you just wrote.....as if a wave could travel at 216,000mph.....that made me laugh so hard :P
I heard on the news it was about 500kmh, which is alot more reasonable then the crazy figure you calculated. :shock:

i had to laugh at that too. with that figure, all of asia would have been submerged :P

216k mph would have reached Sri Lanka in 2.5 seconds vs. 2.5 HOURS :P

shit...i just noticed that Brunei is in the opposite direction of the tsunami :shock: the world easily could have added a shitload of ferraris to the list of casualties :shock: Not that a car is more important than a human life. but still. that would have been an even sadder day :(

[m3mys3lf4ndi]

i've mentioned about it yesterday in "what did santa got u for xmas" section (but no one replayed :? ) propably not the best topic to talk about disasters - or u just dont read all the post carfefuly;)
- coz meant to be in thailand at this time :? my mum is quite happy that i've stayed in uk....
it must been huge if it somehow got from the west cost of indonesia to east cost of thailand!

EDIT--> after seeing second animation im startin to get it how it turns...

[dingo]

can they estalish yet weither the plated moved verticaly or horizontality?

becuase one can cause a bigger wave then the other,

it was vertical :wink:

[jakaracman]

Huh, went to Thailan for vacation not that long ago. Never thought of somothing like that while lying on the beach. Life can be suprisingly short sometimes, if you're not lucky ...

[FordGTGuy]

3600 a min x 60 = 216,000. 60 mins = hour = 216,000 mph.

the other waves were slower after shocks the main wave traveled at this speed.

[dingo]

yes I understand the maths, but the numbers u got must be wrong....a wave cannot travel that fast. The fastest one was about 500mph and they slowed down. Just imagine for a minute what you are saying......its not possible.

[ZfrkS62]

3600 a min x 60 = 216,000. 60 mins = hour = 216,000 mph.

the other waves were slower after shocks the main wave traveled at this speed.

think about it this way, 1 gallon of water = 8lbs. with as much water as was in that first wave, the sheer force of it hitting @216,000MPH would have made Sri Lanka the new Atlantis. There would simply be NOTHING left. Saudi Arabia would even be under water.

From 6 miles below the sea bed, and 155 miles SE, 216000MPH would have hit ALOT sooner than 2 and a half hours. the quake hit at 658am, the wave hit at approx. 830.

500MPH is much more reasonable.

[possessed_beaver]

can they estalish yet weither the plated moved verticaly or horizontality?

becuase one can cause a bigger wave then the other,
They say it created a 620mile hole in the earth. Geologists are saying that it has affected the earths spin, and will affect the weather accordingly.

from what i heard it did shift alot of the earth it was 10km deep where the quake struck, they where talking about it moving upwars of 1km! thats insane, i haven't heard anything about any after-quakes, or more waves as a result of the after shock,

as for affecting theearth's spin and weather, not to sure, i would just put that down to the media working it's scare tactics, on the news here, the reported was asking the Geologists "how likeley is one to hit australia"
he said well one could go off anytime, she turned it around by saying we should all be ready for one and all this bulshit because australia could be hit by a massive wave..

also not much has been said about the container ships, fishing boats ect. that where in the ocean at the time, or even submarines, im not sure a contaner ship would fare up to well...

[5vz-fe]

mach 1 = 340.29 m / s --> 1225km/h --> 761.2mph

IF FordGTGuy is correct that means the wave is traveling at MACH 283.7 LOL!!!!!

According to the paper this moring, the wave is approx 800km/h, more like mrmojo77's answer.

What a tradegy, some part of the world is enjoying the boxing day sale while the other suffers from water damage :cry:

[ZfrkS62]

What a tradegy, some part of the world is enjoying the boxing day sale while the other suffers from water damage


could you please enlighten me as to the meaning of boxing day? it sounds like a massive sporting event :lol:

[Schwalbe]

This tragedy is very horrible, the countries concerned should obtain in the future "Tsunami alarm system" like in Japan. That's really sad. :(

[RC45]

What a tradegy, some part of the world is enjoying the boxing day sale while the other suffers from water damage


could you please enlighten me as to the meaning of boxing day? it sounds like a massive sporting event :lol:

Don't worry - it is just another "Swastika waving holiday for Christianss".. :roll:


Boxing Day
The day after Christmas, the Feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, is better known as Boxing Day. The term may come from the opening of church poor boxes that day; maybe from the earthenware boxes with which boy apprentices collected money at the doors of their masters' clients


The secular adoption of this day is in the form of tradesmen and labourers collecting "Christmas Boxes" of goodies from customers as they do their rounds - for example garbage collectors, milk men etc.

[FoxFour]

Don't trust the scientific explanations put out by the media. Lots of times they are highly inaccurate. Get the info from the specialists.
http://www.usgs.gov/
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/
http://www.quakes.bgs.ac.uk/alert_info.htm
http://geoscope.ipgp.jussieu.fr/index.htm
http://www.noaa.gov/

So everyone can brush up on eathquake knowledge
http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/plate-tectonics.html

[GT-R_R34]

i saw the news this morning and now the toll hits 23,700 dead people.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6754820/?GT1=5936

[cooperluke]

So happy to live here in Portugal where the last natural disaster was a big eartquake and Tsunami in 1755 !!

Sorry for all the victims, too... this kind of things is terrible!
Anyone here lives there in the Area afected?

[FoxFour]

Just got this in (5:32 Eastern time US)
2004/12/27 20:10 M 5.8 SIMEULUE, INDONESIA Z= 10km 2.86N 95.59E

This information is provided by the USGS
National Earthquake Information Center.
(Address problems to: [email protected])

These parameters are preliminary and subject to revision.

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake IN SIMEULUE, INDONESIA has occurred at:
2.86N 95.59E Depth 10km Mon Dec 27 20:10:48 2004 UTC

Time: Universal Time (UTC) Mon Dec 27 20:10:48 2004
Time Near Epicenter Tue Dec 28 03:10:48 2004
Eastern Standard Time (EST) Mon Dec 27 15:10:48 2004
Central Standard Time (CST) Mon Dec 27 14:10:48 2004
Mountain Standard Time (MST) Mon Dec 27 13:10:48 2004
Pacific Standard Time (PST) Mon Dec 27 12:10:48 2004
Alaska Standard Time (AST) Mon Dec 27 11:10:48 2004
Hawaii Standard Time (HST) Mon Dec 27 10:10:48 2004

Location with respect to nearby cities:
295 km (180 miles) S of Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia
350 km (215 miles) WSW of Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia
380 km (235 miles) WNW of Sibolga, Sumatra, Indonesia
1590 km (990 miles) NW of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia

For maps, additional information, and subsequent updates,
please consult:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/ussnbk.htm .

Flinn-Engdahl Region Number = 705

For the most significant earthquakes, information may also be
available from the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program home page at
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ and the USGS home page at
http://www.usgs.gov/ .

You will continue to receive messages like this when
earthquakes occur that have magnitude 5.5 or greater
anywhere in the world OR 4.5 or greater in the contiguous
US, Hawaii, and Alaska (excluding the Aleutian Islands).

[FoxFour]

becuase one can cause a bigger wave then the other,
They say it created a 620mile hole in the earth. Geologists are saying that it has affected the earths spin, and will affect the weather accordingly.

I found this doing a Google search. I am somewhat intrigued by this and will be doing some research on this tonight. If I find anything interesting, I will post

By now, you've probably heard about the horrifying earthquake in the Indian Ocean, and the estimated 8,000 people it has killed. As a metric of just how powerful this quake was, consider the following facts, courtesy News 14:

"All the planet is vibrating" from the quake, said Enzo Boschi, the head of Italy's National Geophysics Institute. Speaking on SKY TG24 TV, Boschi said the quake even disturbed the Earth's rotation.

[FoxFour]

They say it created a 620mile hole in the earth. Geologists are saying that it has affected the earths spin, and will affect the weather accordingly.

I found this doing a Google search. I am somewhat intrigued by this and will be doing some research on this tonight. If I find anything interesting, I will post

By now, you've probably heard about the horrifying earthquake in the Indian Ocean, and the estimated 8,000 people it has killed. As a metric of just how powerful this quake was, consider the following facts, courtesy News 14:

"All the planet is vibrating" from the quake, said Enzo Boschi, the head of Italy's National Geophysics Institute. Speaking on SKY TG24 TV, Boschi said the quake even disturbed the Earth's rotation.[/quote]

It's possible that this quake has created a little more instability to the earth's poles. The 'Chandler Wobble' has been a scientific mystery for ages but only until recently, with over a 100 years of imperical data, has the riddle been solved
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Contact: Rosemary Sullivant (818) 354-0474

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 18, 2000

A MYSTERY OF EARTH'S WOBBLE SOLVED: IT'S THE OCEAN

The century-old mystery of Earth's "Chandler wobble" has been solved by a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The Chandler wobble, named for its 1891 discoverer, Seth Carlo Chandler, Jr., an American businessman turned astronomer, is one of several wobbling motions exhibited by Earth as it rotates on its axis, much as a top wobbles as it spins.

Scientists have been particularly intrigued by the Chandler wobble, since its cause has remained a mystery even though it has been under observation for over a century. Its period is only around 433 days, or just 1.2 years, meaning that it takes that amount of time to complete one wobble. The wobble amounts to about 20 feet at the North Pole. It has been calculated that the Chandler wobble would be damped down, or reduced to zero, in just 68 years, unless some force were constantly acting to reinvigorate it.

But what is that force, or excitation mechanism? Over the years, various hypotheses have been put forward, such as atmospheric phenomena, continental water storage (changes in snow cover, river runoff, lake levels, or reservoir capacities), interaction at the boundary of Earth's core and its surrounding mantle, and earthquakes.

Writing in the August 1 issue of Geophysical Research Letters, Richard Gross, a JPL geophysicist, reports that the principal cause of the Chandler wobble is fluctuating pressure on the bottom of the ocean, caused by temperature and salinity changes and wind-driven changes in the circulation of the oceans. He determined this by applying numerical models of the oceans, which have only recently become available through the work of other researchers, to data on the Chandler wobble obtained during the years 1985-1995. Gross calculated that two-thirds of the Chandler wobble is caused by ocean-bottom pressure changes and the remaining one-third by fluctuations in atmospheric pressure. He says that the effect of atmospheric winds and ocean currents on the wobble was minor.

Gross credits the wide distribution of the data that underlay his calculations to the creation in 1988 of the International Earth Rotation Service, which is based in Paris, France. Through its various bureaus, he writes, the service enables the kind of interdisciplinary research that led to his solution of the Chandler wobble mystery. Gross's research was supported by NASA's Office of Earth Science, Washington, D.C.

JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

[ZfrkS62]

What a tradegy, some part of the world is enjoying the boxing day sale while the other suffers from water damage


could you please enlighten me as to the meaning of boxing day? it sounds like a massive sporting event :lol:

Don't worry - it is just another "Swastika waving holiday for Christianss".. :roll:


Boxing Day
The day after Christmas, the Feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, is better known as Boxing Day. The term may come from the opening of church poor boxes that day; maybe from the earthenware boxes with which boy apprentices collected money at the doors of their masters' clients


The secular adoption of this day is in the form of tradesmen and labourers collecting "Christmas Boxes" of goodies from customers as they do their rounds - for example garbage collectors, milk men etc.

ok, so i don't know much about Canadian customs. Sue me :P I guarantee you i'm not the only American who doesn't know about Boxing Day. :wink: Thanks for the tidbit of info though.

[callen]

http://img95.exs.cx/img95/6272/mindoquake0412266sx.gif

I hope the sultans car collection is ok! :shock: :shock: :shock:

[dingo]

ok, so i don't know much about Canadian customs. Sue me :P I guarantee you i'm not the only American who doesn't know about Boxing Day. :wink: Thanks for the tidbit of info though.

we have Boxing Day here on the 26th also......the stupid thing is that because it fell on a Sunday this year it would mean no break from work - so they give us Monday/Tuesday off to make up for it. :shock:
This country will do anything for a holiday.....considering most people use up all of there sick days anyway there shouldn't be a need for another holiday. :wink:

[possessed_beaver]

33,000 now confirmed dead :(

over 40,000 now missing, with the number growing :(

just a reminder, alot of funds are needed with alot of aid, so spread the word to your families/friends etc.. to donate money. especially during this holiday season we should be generous.

http://www.unicef.org
http://www.savethechildren.org
http://www.americares.org
http://www.worldvision.org

there are several other sites as well...choose your weapon and spread the word. cheers.

it's ok, my country donated $10 000 000.00 aswell as medical aid and suplies, i don't think my $20 donation will matter.

[dingo]

I just had a thought, are any of the regular JW members from these affected areas? I'm pretty sure there were some from Thailand, have we heard from them yet?

[possessed_beaver]

I just had a thought, are any of the regular JW members from these affected areas? I'm pretty sure there were some from Thailand, have we heard from them yet?

Were there any waves in Australia?

yeh, in australia some crayfishing boats broke from there ropes, nothing major, and the tide has been disrupted mildley nothing in the way of 15m waves, probley 2m at the very most.

as for the speed the wave was traveling, it was infact (i believe) the shockwave that was going 500km/h

[dingo]

I just had a thought, are any of the regular JW members from these affected areas? I'm pretty sure there were some from Thailand, have we heard from them yet?

Were there any waves in Australia?

well a few like beaver said, also in Rockingham (~35km south of Perth) some mussel farms which my dad has interest in were destroyed. :(

[evoWalo]

This tragedy is very horrible, the countries concerned should obtain in the future "Tsunami alarm system" like in Japan. That's really sad. :(
Those systems cost about USD250,000.00 each & takes about a month to build. The problem here is funding.

[evoWalo]

Many of the poor people could've been saved if they were informed of Tsunami possibility in advance :(
Problem is that most of those people dont have radios or TVs. Most of the dead are are really poor & live in developing nations.

[possessed_beaver]

Many of the poor people could've been saved if they were informed of Tsunami possibility in advance :(
Problem is that most of those people dont have radios or TVs. Most of the dead are are really poor & live in developing nations.

and also the chances of it happing again, are incredibley small.

i believe australia is going to buy one for the indian ocean.

[evoWalo]

I could imagine the panic & mass hysteria of moving millions of people from the coasts to higher ground even if they had 1-4 hours advanced warning. More people could've died if they were warned ahead.

[FordGTGuy]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1540&ncid=1540&e=3&u=/afp/20041227/sc_afp/asiaquakeenvironment_041227160302

this is just plain stupid damn french. They wouldn't be alive if their weren't resorts thats what their economy is based on(mostly). Ohhhh I have a qeustion is their a place anywhere on Earth that can gurantee no deaths with a tsunami hell no.

[FordGTGuy]

This tragedy is very horrible, the countries concerned should obtain in the future "Tsunami alarm system" like in Japan. That's really sad. :(
Those systems cost about USD250,000.00 each & takes about a month to build. The problem here is funding.

shit that alarm system must be a P.O.S. to take that long to build

[ZfrkS62]

This tragedy is very horrible, the countries concerned should obtain in the future "Tsunami alarm system" like in Japan. That's really sad. :(
Those systems cost about USD250,000.00 each & takes about a month to build. The problem here is funding.

shit that alarm system must be a P.O.S. to take that long to build

quite the opposite actually. as intricate as this system is, a month is not that bad of a turn around. they need to be able to transmit telemetry to other bouys and the monitorng station on shore. and considering the limited information they have on tsunamis, they have to be able to program the thresholds of everything so that the alarm can be triggered.
not to mention the testing they have to do on the systems before sending them out to sea.

[caneswell]

It trully is a very very sad event, and just shows how fragile the earth is.

The wave speed is apparently equal to the product of the depth and gravity, square rooted.

That guy coming up with the random figures is making me laugh, have you no concept of physics at all?? Also i beleve there are rather a lot of places that are safe from tsuanamis, namly those >20m above sea level, maybe?

[abbor]

My mom's cousin was on vacation in Asia, and he had plans to visit either Thailand, or some other country.. Noone know wich he chose, and no contact with him so far... Sad..

[abbor]

if it was moving lets say 3600 miles in a min. then it was moving 216,000 mph closest thing to the speed of light in a long time probably.

:lol:

this is just plain stupid damn french.

swiss.. and he have some nice points as well... :roll:

Ohhhh I have a qeustion is their a place anywhere on Earth that can gurantee no deaths with a tsunami hell no.

Yes.. You should learn more about tsunamis and such.. Maybe some about the continental plates as well.. And even a tsunami could happen in western europe, I guarantee you that at least one country is safe: Switzerland... :wink:

[dulja]

what is happening in this world???
is it all coming to an end?
i heard this morning that is was snowing in the united arab emirates!!!!!!. can you believe that?. First time in history. Snow in a place like that. Things are getting scary. dont you believe?

[tanelvali]

http://www.local.ee/tsunami/ - tsunamis hitting the shores.. 3 videos


The following is RATED picture! Do not open when kids are around, or pregnent womer or whoever who does not have the nerv to see dead bodies.

:!: http://img145.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img145&image=ruumiita4ft.jpg :!:

[FoxFour]

Part of the reason that the governments over there did not set up a tsunami monitoring station is because there have been sparse earthquake and tsunami activity along the India and Burma plate.
Taken from the USGS site
Question: What other great (M > eight) earthquakes have occurred in the region?

Answer: Since 1900 and prior to the December 26 earthquake, the largest earthquake along the subduction zone from southern Sumatra to the Andaman Islands occurred in 2000 and had a magnitude of 7.9. A magnitude 8.4 earthquake occurred in 1797, a magnitude 8.5 in 1861 and a magnitude 8.7 in 1833 . All three ruptured sections of the subduction zone to the south of the recent earthquake. Interestingly, the 1797 and 1833 quakes are believed to have ruptured roughly the same area with only 36 years separating the events. Paleoseismic evidence shows that great earthquakes or earthquake couplets occur about every 230 years

Question: What other significant tsunamis have occurred in the region?

The following destructive tsunamis are listed on a data base maintained by the Tsunami Laboratory, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics (http://tsun.sscc.ru/tsulab/20041226tsun.htm)
1. 1797/02/10 Central part of the western Sumatra. The quake was most felt near Padang and in the area within +/-2 deg of equator. Padang was flooded by powerful waves. More then 300 fatalities.
2. 1833/11/24 South coast of the western Sumatra, estimated rupture from 1 S to 6 S latitude. Huge tidal wave flooded all southern part of the western Sumatra. Numerous victims.
3. 1843/01/05 Strong earthquake west of the central Sumatra. Terrible wave came from the south-east and flooded all the coast of the Nias Island. Many fatalities.
4. 1861/02/16 Exceptionally strong earthquake affected all the western coast of Sumatra. Several thousand fatalities.
5. 1883 Krakatau explosion 36,000 fatalities

[nthfinity]

this is truly a terrible tragedy, and so unfortunate so many human lives were lost :( perhaps this puts new respect towared nature...

on a side note, the speed of light is 186,000 miles per second (300,000 km/second) quite a far cry from 216,000 mph... last a checked, numerous deep space probes travel those speeds after gravity bounces and such...

and was that refering to the quake's shock wave moving that fast? or the tsunami wave itself?

[FoxFour]

this is truly a terrible tragedy, and so unfortunate so many human lives were lost :( perhaps this puts new respect towared nature...

on a side note, the speed of light is 186,000 miles per second (300,000 km/second) quite a far cry from 216,000 mph... last a checked, numerous deep space probes travel those speeds after gravity bounces and such...

and was that refering to the quake's shock wave moving that fast? or the tsunami wave itself?

Even though I have no proof, it's possible that it was the shock wave that traveled that fast, especially close-in.

[abbor]

It was definitly not the wave that travelled that fast..

[dingo]

Does anyone know where this disaster now rates among the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster? I heard earlier in the week this was rated No. 5, but the death toll has gone up considerably since then so it may have changed. :?

400,000.....shit, thats a lot of people. Here in Aust. people are being told to wear balck armbands at new years celebrations tonight in respect to the dead and injured.

[dingo]

wow, thanks for the pic - that pretty clearly illustrates the devastation this has caused. :(

[saadie]

wow :shock: ..... this is heavy ... :(

[dingo]

It might not be the worst, these are what I have found so far:


* 1976 Earthquake in Tangshan, China, kills 242,000
* 1970 Cyclone in Bangladesh kills 500,000
* 1887 China's Yellow River breaks its banks in Huayan Kou killing 900,000
* 1556 Earthquake in China's Shaanxi, Shanxi and Henan provinces kills an estimated 830,000

[ZfrkS62]

that picture is incredible :shock: the water hasn't receded at all. i'm not sure if that island is ever going to be inhabitable again.

seeing that makes me wonder if a tsunami is what did in the city of Atlantis :( it's just simply amazing when nature decides to remind us just who is in control. unfortunatley it's also deadly :| I can't believe that there is only one building left standing in the AFTER pic. i'm just speechless at this sight :(

[evoWalo]

Before & After sat photos of Indonesian & Sri Lankan coasts. It is sobering to see this level of destruction.

http://www.digitalglobe.com/tsunami_gallery.html

[FoxFour]

It might not be the worst, these are what I have found so far:


* 1976 Earthquake in Tangshan, China, kills 242,000
* 1970 Cyclone in Bangladesh kills 500,000
* 1887 China's Yellow River breaks its banks in Huayan Kou killing 900,000
* 1556 Earthquake in China's Shaanxi, Shanxi and Henan provinces kills an estimated 830,000

I was trying to look for those statistics but could not find them. Thanks. One of the great tragedies of our time. Even though this does not qualify a disaster due to natural devastation but I was looking up the Chinese Famine of 1958-1961. Over 5 million died in that.

[Chaos in 1983!]

OMG those pics are impressive...they really give you a whole new perspective of the damage...you see how massive this was, it literally erased islands from the map...it's so sad, 155,000 deaths confirmed, and still climbing...


I didn't hear of this until the 28th since I was on vacations ironically at a beach that had sufferd a tidalwave some 10 years ago, of course nothing like this...

[FoxFour]

I just heard on the news that the Thai government is now having to deal with the influx of child sex slavery groups snatching up the children that have no families now and are just wandering the streets.

[stmoritzer]

if these kidnappings are true, there are no words to describe these f%#%?#@ :fist: :cry: :(

[SL55 AMG]

Well on a positive note just read that quote:

Formula One champion Michael Schumacher plans to donate $10 million to aid efforts for tsunami victims in Asia.


Here is where i found this, short article though.
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?floc=FF-APS-PLS&idq=/ff/story/0030/20050104/1622414090.htm&photoid=20041211SIN57D

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^^^ a heard schumi have 10 million USD

and this gave have away his money too www.mym5fund.co.uk

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i think it was around 201pounds?

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little media update

http://www.digitalglobe.com/tsunami_gallery.html - pics like the one everso
http://www.waveofdestruction.org/videos/ - videos