1000 dead in Asian Earthquake.

[dougdeep]

My original headline says 1,000. Now they are talking 55,000. The destructive power of nature is simply horrific.

 

[perseus]

Correction: I have just calculated that it took eight hours for the tidal wave to reach Sri Lanka, so they could have had an "early warning system".

The earthquake occurred at midnight and ther tidal wave hit without warning at 8 o'clock in the morning (GMT).

The time of the day in Sri Lanka would be about six or seven hours later.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4125837.stm

I expect you knew that already. The time it took was incorrectly reported on some early news reports.

 

[Everest]

37,000 confirmed dead now.

Both islands in the Maldives I was on 3 wks ago just about destroyed.

This just gets worse.

RIP all those unfortunate people.

 

[perseus]

37,000 confirmed dead now.

Both islands in the Maldives I was on 3 wks ago just about destroyed.

This just gets worse.

RIP all those unfortunate people.

No reports at all from Burma and Bangladesh.

http://thestaronline.com/news/story.asp?file=/2004/12/28/latest/20399Nearly60&sec=latest

It was the Poya in Sri lanka (Festival of the Full Moon).

 

[perseus]

Simon Boxall from Southampton Oceanography has just reiterated on BBC1 that the time span from earthqualke to tidal wave in the Indian Ocean is only three hours, less one hour for analysis = two hours.

So my calculations in an earlier message may be wrong. I have not double-checked the time variations. UT = GMT.

 

[Strike]

This is very sad one of the worse tragedys of recent years, even more dead than 9/11 and the Bam earthquake put together. Its even sadder to think that its not all over.

RIP Those unfortunante and unlucky people.

 

[Titanic]

Complete bollocks and crass drivel in the face of a human tragedy.

 

[perseus]

Titanic: please remove your post. I did NOT write that. It is false representation.

 

[Titanic]

Do grow up - you sad, strange, little man.

 

[Cantona's Flying Dropkick]

50K - it will get worse - more like 80K.

50 - 80K = a town like Crawley completely obliterated.

 

[Juan Albion]

Several Italian soccer players -- including AC Milan striker Filippo Inzaghi, Milan captain Paolo Maldini, and Juventus defender Gianluca Zambrotta -- were caught in the maelstrom in the Maldives but were unhurt.

 

[Al Bion]

Thanks for finding out that Guppy is ok Ernest, thats real good news at least for us amongst this tragedy

 

[Juan Albion]

Apparently there are 1500 Swedes missing in Thailand alone.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

A friend of mine is in Penang, Malaysia where 60 have died so far. She said there are people sitting next to piles of furniture in the streets with nowhere to go. It's so sad

 

[MikeySmall]

I have been in Sri Lanka, Thailand and Malaysia in the past 8 months and near enough all the places i have been to have been hit. Sri Lanka seems to have been shat on. On the south coast near Galle everyone lives within 5 kms of the beach. They live in small wooden houses that a gale would blow down let alone 20m waves. Its shocking. The aftermath will be worse. I reckon near enough 250k people will die due to this.

Everyone should donate something - however much or little. If everyone in the western world did so this tragedy can be helped and thousands of lives can be saved.

RIP

Will

 

[Wozza]

Satellite pictures...

http://digitalglobe.com/tsunami_gallery.html

 

[SK1NT]

toll to exceed 100,000

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4132725.stm


very sad

 

[geoffreyp]

had been awaiting an e-mail from a friend to cofirm a mutual mate is ok. just been told shes ok. she was in thailand but i had no idea where. went to stay with her sister for a month. apparently they left the coastal area a few days before it happened and travelled inland. thank god. teletext saying death toll could exceed 100,000. awful

 

[Strike]

Anyone know how Kalimantan Gull is, who is in Central Borneo is he/she fine?

 

[Braders]

toll to exceed 100,000

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4132725.stm


very sad

f***ing hell