1000 dead in Asian Earthquake.

[dougdeep]

Terrible news as earthquakes and tidal waves devastate several asian countries. Brings things into perspective doesn't it.

 

[Chopper West]

Any news on Guppy?

 

[Strike]

Very sad news to wake up to after Christmas Day, my thoughts are with those people.

 

[Zebedee]

A tragedy of immense proportion. My heart goes out to the relatives and friends of all of those who lost their lives. It makes you realise that mother nature owns this planet and that there are some things that we can't influence or stop however much we might want to.

 

[Cantona's Flying Dropkick]

Link:-

BBC News

 

[Withnail]

Over 8000 now and expected to rise. This is terrible news.

 

[Lord Cornwallis]

That is bad at any time of year. I can only imagine how quickly happiness turned to sadness for those poor people.

 

[Ernest]

Any news on Guppy?

No he won't answer his mobile

 

[The Oldman]

Terrible. Put's football into perspective

 

[dougdeep]

I wouldn't want to be on the Maldives. Their highest point is about 3 feet above sea level.

 

[Easy 10]

Estimates of 11,000 dead now. I can't recall any other natural disaster causing as much death and destruction on this kind of scale, not in recent times anyway.

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

11,000?? How terrible

 

[Marshy]

 

[Marshy]

watching it on the news now....not good

 

[Beach Hut]

This is terrible news, luckily I contacted my sister this morning who was in Thailand and she was up in the mountains.

Only confirmed deaths of Brits was a female from Thailand on BBC plus another reported.

 

[FG aka FOOTBALL GENIUS]

agreed devastatingly terrible news, makes me wonder who and how are crowd numbers estimated like football crowds, protests, marches, gatherings etc

 

[Marc]

just got in from an all day session, got a mate in thailand, f***ing hope hes ok

 

[Juan Albion]

Estimates of 11,000 dead now. I can't recall any other natural disaster causing as much death and destruction on this kind of scale, not in recent times anyway.

Actually, 11,000 is nothing compared to some recent events, although it is still, of course, absolutely tragic. In China in 1976, an earthquake killed approximately 240,000 people. Didn't get a huge amount of coverage in the West, which was probably more concerned about some soap opera scandal or something involving Tory politicians.

 

[Spicy]

Sincere condolences - what a terrible disaster.

 

[Everest]

I wouldn't want to be on the Maldives. Their highest point is about 3 feet above sea level.

I'm just glad we came back from there 3 weeks ago. One of the hotels we stayed at has been completely demolished.
I've seen a photo of one of the taxi boats in the hotel we stayed at on Male.

Very very sad news.