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Massive earthquake hits Sumatra
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cybamerc said:
You have to click on the link http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/world/0412/gallery.before.after/content.3.html
and watch the other pics.
Mounds and mounds of tsunami footage:
http://jlgolson.blogspot.com/2004/12/tsunami-video.html
http://video.contemporaryinsanity.org/
(the guy asked not to hotlink)
http://jlgolson.blogspot.com/2004/12/tsunami-video.html
http://video.contemporaryinsanity.org/
(the guy asked not to hotlink)
No, it was 3 million. Unless the Globe & Mail lies?? There were also a couple more around 1 million. All earthquakes, IIRC.Stele said:
I'd find the article, but my parents took the paper with them when they left yesterday.
Dude, when 3,000,000 people die: 1) buildings do not compare, 2) you KNOW there must have been a lot of damage to the citiesTommie Hu$tle said:
Smiles and Cries
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this is disturbing
Tommie Hu$tle
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Socreges said:
I understand what you are saying from a humanity point of view but, they do compare when someone has to rebuild a building so people can live in it.
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teiresias said:
She ran towards the wave o.0.
ManaByte
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TheQueen'sOwn said:
I'm sorry, this was a horrible disaster, but anyone who is dumb enough to run into a wave that big especially when everyone else is running for their life...
I mean, WTF was she thinking? "Surfs up"? "Oh no, I left my iPod in the water, I better get it"?
ManaByte
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What? The order, relative to what came first/second/last, would have to be:ManaByte said:
1. furthest point from wave
2. middle point from wave
3. closest point from wave
I see six people during 3. that she's running towards. Or am I wrong?
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Uh, no. You picked out one particular instance (Tangshan) as what was allegedly 3 million. What I'm saying is that there have been several earthquakes in China in the past century, so isn't it very possible that I'm talking about a different one...
-edit- I gotta go out. So if this continues, any replies will be some time from now
ManaByte said:
WHAT???
No, seriously, how can this be?
We are an odd, odd species -
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ManaByte said:
I was watching Sky News today for a while and one of the tips they gave for surviving the wave was to run towards it. Eveyones natural reaction would obviously be to run like mad in the other direction but the opposite is true, your best chance of survival is to take it head on. Perhaps you've less chance of being hit by debris.
Hey what's up guys. I'm actually in Sri Lanka right now. Pretty boring trip to be honest, you know the whole family vacation type thing, except this time you don't know your relatives, and you can't speak to them iether because of the language barrier. Oh yeah then my cousin broke my glasses so I'm blind until I get a new pair in about 6 days.
Fucking...
Anyway this flood is all over the news. No worries I'm in the middle of the island, but it's pretty crazy. They say Sri Lanka was the hardest hit from the tsunamis, right? Something like that. I thought this was just a flood or something, never realised it was this major internationally (can't understsnd the news here either haha).
Anyway I guess I'll browse the boards now that miraculously I have internet access here, though only at 19.2kbps.
BTW, please donate to any relief fund, these people need your help badly.
Fucking...
Anyway this flood is all over the news. No worries I'm in the middle of the island, but it's pretty crazy. They say Sri Lanka was the hardest hit from the tsunamis, right? Something like that. I thought this was just a flood or something, never realised it was this major internationally (can't understsnd the news here either haha).
Anyway I guess I'll browse the boards now that miraculously I have internet access here, though only at 19.2kbps
.BTW, please donate to any relief fund, these people need your help badly.
Chittagong
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My boss just sent an SMS message and told my team to get our asses over to Red Cross instead of being in the office. I'll be there in an hour packing aid stuff to Asia.
For the fifth day in a row, all the biggest newspapers have the same cover feature and only one news topic in the foreign news section - never happened before. All our local news show is the disaster.
For the fifth day in a row, all the biggest newspapers have the same cover feature and only one news topic in the foreign news section - never happened before. All our local news show is the disaster.
Someone posted similar images to these earlier, but these show more of the area:
Banda Acheh, Sumatra, Indonesia. Before:
After (taken on Tuesday, two days after the Tsunamis hit):
There are no words for that..
edit - also, about the woman who is running toward the tsunamis, apparently she was running to her family out in the water:
It's not known if they survived
Banda Acheh, Sumatra, Indonesia. Before:
After (taken on Tuesday, two days after the Tsunamis hit):
There are no words for that..
edit - also, about the woman who is running toward the tsunamis, apparently she was running to her family out in the water:
It's not known if they survived
Just heard on Sky News of allegations that the Sri Lanka government is somewhat ignoring the plight of those affected by this in Northern Sri Lanka, leaving the people there to pretty much fend for themselves. The Tamil Tigers guerrila group are mostly based in Northern Sri Lanka, and apparently that's why..
Chittagong
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Just came back from the Red Cross. We were sorting the cash brought in from the streets of Helsinki, and I have to say that I'm glad to see the degree of help - some people had put in 8 x 50 euro bills, a total of 400 eur on the street, very good!
To really understand the magnitude of this catastrophy to Scandinavia, think of WTC. In absolute numbers, the likelyhood is that more Swedish people died because of the Tsunami in Asia than the amount of Americans that died in the WTC. And there is only around 8 million people in Sweden.
To really understand the magnitude of this catastrophy to Scandinavia, think of WTC. In absolute numbers, the likelyhood is that more Swedish people died because of the Tsunami in Asia than the amount of Americans that died in the WTC. And there is only around 8 million people in Sweden.
Project Midway
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wow@pics....
"Tsunami... tsunami... came washing over me". Damn, just last week I was listening to it. Kinda ironic. Or not.
"Tsunami... tsunami... came washing over me". Damn, just last week I was listening to it. Kinda ironic. Or not.
I know what you mean. Not one week ago I was watching some History Channel thing on a Tsunami that hit some island in the 60's. Weird eh.Project Midway said:wow@pics....
"Tsunami... tsunami... came washing over me". Damn, just last week I was listening to it. Kinda ironic. Or not.
When I was looking at the video, to be honest, before the waves hit the land they didn't look that big to me. Bigger than normal, but if I had actually been there I don't know if I would have run either. Looking at the video I was kind of expecting the wave to crash down and then pull back, perhaps coming a little further in than normal, but not at all in the way that it turned out. I think most people expected the same i.e. their visual perception of the waves before they hit land vastly underestimated them. I think it's probably hard to guage the size of waves when they're out at see, not to mention the power actually pushing them in. In so many of the vids you see the wave coming and coming, and then the people with the camera only start moving when the wave is right in front of them.
While the amount of devastation and loss of life is heart crushing...and while I believe that no life is better or worse than another life in a horrible disaster like this, knowing a person that has been affected by this definitely makes it hit even harder than it has.
I just found out that a friend of mine is missing in Thailand and is presumed dead. I can't imagine what his family must be going through. I really hope that he somehow survived and just can't get to a phone or post office. Unbelievable.
I just found out that a friend of mine is missing in Thailand and is presumed dead. I can't imagine what his family must be going through. I really hope that he somehow survived and just can't get to a phone or post office. Unbelievable.
Swedish mother defies the odds
January 3, 2005
SHE ran fearlessly into the tsunami in a desperate bid to save her three sons - and miraculously survived.
For a week the world thought Karin Svaerd and her children were dead, among more than 127,600 victims of the Asian tidal wave disaster.
The images of a panic-stricken Mrs Svaerd were published around the world, including The Daily Telegraph on Friday, showing the panic-stricken mother running into the surf as tourists around her fled in fear of their lives.
"I had to try and save my children, nothing was going to stop me," Mrs Svaerd, 37, said yesterday.
In a remarkable story of survival, the Swedish policewoman yesterday told of the worst hour of her life - and how her entire family somehow made it through the waves of destruction unscathed.
With the final death toll still unknown, amazing stories of survival are emerging in the wake of the 10m waves that devastated South-East Asia.
Mrs Svaerd was at Thailand's Hat Rai Lay beach, near Krabi, with her husband and their sons Anton, 14, Filip, 11 and Viktor, 10, who could not see the first wave as it thundered ashore.
"I was yelling at them to run, run but they couldn't hear me," Mrs Svaerd said.
When they did not hear her, she started running towards them, screaming: "Oh my God, not my children."
Mrs Svaerd was barely 20m from the boys when the family was engulfed by the tsunami and separated.
She clung to a palm tree after the wave swept her to land but lost her grip and was washed to higher ground alone.
"I could see a white wall of water coming towards the beach from the horizon getting bigger and bigger," she said. "People were starting to shout and scream, 'Get off the beach, get off the beach'.
"I started to shout, 'Run in, run in' at my boys. They'd been snorkelling and playing in the surf.
"But because of the noise on the beach and because they were 200m away they couldn't hear me.
"They didn't know the wave was coming towards them, so I started running into the sea.
"I could hear people shouting at me, 'Get off the beach', as I ran past them but I ignored them.
"Terror was coming up inside me. I could feel it.
"But I was so focused I just started running to my family. My husband Lars started running towards them too. I was shouting to Lars, 'Take the children away'.
"I could see the fear in the boys' faces. They started to move to the beach but the ground was heavy and they were not doing so well.
"I was running towards them. I could see this white wall coming to me and it was coming faster.
"I did not care. I was looking at my children. I wanted to hold them and care for them. I can remember the white foam, how the surf took them up and they disappeared.
"Maybe a second or two later the wave hit me and took me up. I thought I was going to die.
"The strength of the wave was so strong, there was no way I could hold on."
When she washed up on higher ground she was confronted by parents facing the same fears as hers - looking for their lost families.
"I thought my family were dead," Mrs Svaerd said.
"My life was over as far as I could see it. My children were taken away from me.
"It was 10 minutes - the worst 10 minutes in my life - before I found my family together on the higher ground away from the water.
"The boys were with Lars and [their uncle] Per.
"They were all holding each other looking very frightened and confused.
"I rushed to them and yelled, 'Thank God you are alive'. We hugged each other. All around us people were shouting for their families and I could feel their fear."
The family returned to Sweden on Thursday.
The Daily Telegraph
SiegfriedFM
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That family is from my town. They were in the local paper today, as well as on national television. Apparently everyone in their travel group survived.
gofreak said:Just heard on Sky News of allegations that the Sri Lanka government is somewhat ignoring the plight of those affected by this in Northern Sri Lanka, leaving the people there to pretty much fend for themselves. The Tamil Tigers guerrila group are mostly based in Northern Sri Lanka, and apparently that's why..
I'm so sick of all the fighting with Sri Lanka...
Here's a funny fact though - lions and tigers aren't even in Sri Lanka, though we do have the two groups fighting :lol
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