Largest earthquake in 50 years.

dawdler said:
Then you probably dont want to read up on history, as millions have died over the last few decades in natural disasters... Typhoons around india kills 200,000+ at a time. Quake in China kills quarter of a million people.

The biggest disaster is also in China I think, 16th century quake that killed about a million people.

60,000 may be hard to comprehend, but its still a tiny figure.
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perhaps...but in recent years we haven't had such an earth quake which claims a million lives...so u can see why its hard to comprehend 60, 000 deaths. ;(
 
Farrowlesparrow said:
Not compared to the single beings that we are...You are comparing it to larger numbers, which have no meaning to us ut when you put yourself into that number of 60,000, you quickly see that its too big to fully imagine without seeing it.
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I was thinking about this over the past few days and relating it back to the number of people i see when i go to watch Manchester United (a British 'soccer' team for those outside the UK) at Old Trafford. MUFC's ground holds around 67,500 people at almost every game, and to think that the death toll has already risen above the ENITRE stadium population is absolutely incredible and terrifying.

I heard earlier today that officials are fully expecting the toll to reach above 100,000. ;(
 
You know whats really sick, this earthquake has people questioning their religions. People running around asking "wheres god now?!?!". I mean trully, we all must band together under the common goal of expanding humanity, not finding security in knowing they all went to heaven.
 
Farrowlesparrow said:
Not compared to the single beings that we are...You are comparing it to larger numbers, which have no meaning to us ut when you put yourself into that number of 60,000, you quickly see that its too big to fully imagine without seeing it.
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Yes, it is big and it is horrible. But its not really uncommon, nor is it too big. Its one among big quakes. Its just the human way of thinking, the latest is the greatest.
http://www.vency.com/Earthquakes.html
As you can see, its not very uncommon with big quakes and huge loss of lives.

The worst part about this particular disaster, is that it could have been avoided. The goverments where warned when the quake came, but didnt warn those along the shoreline as they didnt think it would cause a tsunami. We could have counted deaths in the hundreds instead...
 
The official number is now 82000. This is indeed the worst catastroph in modern time. How many died in the earthquake in Iran?
 
One thing I wish people would stop doing is comparing this to 9/11. This is a natural disaster, and no one could have stopped it from happening. 9/11 was the work of terrorism. Totally different. They're both horrible, and I truly feel sorry for anyone involved with the quake.
 
You know whats really interesting a helicopter flew over a zoo in Sri Lanka and none of the animals were dead they seeked higher ground. The article said that maybe animals have a sixth sense
 
nofx said:
You know whats really interesting a helicopter flew over a zoo in Sri Lanka and none of the animals were dead they seeked higher ground. The article said that maybe animals have a sixth sense
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It's been reported that most animals tend to react when they sense a earthquake is about to hit or something of that nature.
 
EC said:
One thing I wish people would stop doing is comparing this to 9/11. This is a natural disaster, and no one could have stopped it from happening. 9/11 was the work of terrorism. Totally different. They're both horrible, and I truly feel sorry for anyone involved with the quake.
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You see, that is what's bad. It is a natural disaster yes. And the quake was *DETECTED*. The tsunami (which is the killer) takes a while to hit the beaches... If the people along the shoreline had been warned when the quake happened, this wouldnt be as large a disaster.

How far can you run in 1 hour?

Far enough.
 
Yes 9/11 was deliberate and this was a natural disaster.
But that doesn't make the deaths any less significant.
The comparison to 9/11 is to do with the death scale, and trying to explain to some insensitive people that it is a major event, not just something that "doesn't affect me so I don't care."
 
I wonder how this will go down in the history books. I mean where're surrounded by all so called technology but we cant even detect a tsunami. I mean think about it im pretty sure theyre places in the us and in europe that have seisomograph machines that couldve easily warned the countries :/
 
nofx said:
I wonder how this will go down in the history books. I mean where're surrounded by all so called technology but we cant even detect a tsunami. I mean think about it im pretty sure theyre places in the us and in europe that have seisomograph machines that couldve easily warned the countries :/
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In the pacific there is an advanced system that instantly warn the surrunding countries. But the countries around the Indian Ocean can't affort such system.
 
The King held a speech today about his sorrow. Then you know it's really bad.
 
Those videos are crazy.

In the penang one I can't understand why they didn't see that something was horribly wrong...I mean those waves don't just look like just your average waves...

I wouldn't have ran right away either, and I also realize it's easy to say after the fact, but I think I wouldn't have stood on the beach like at least one person was doing. Although I know I would at least spend sometime trying to figure out what the hell is going on, then run.

So sad though...I feel bad for the people who died AND the people who are trapped there right now with nothing.
 
Man, those videos are scary as hell. The first and third don't work though.
 
I cant beileve the idiots in those videos who where standing around, not on high ground, filming it. Last thing I would be thinking is "I better get this on tape"
 
Well Ritz they probably had no idea what was going on, as the government gave their people and tourist no warning of the tsunami. The tourist were probably videotaping their wife or kids and happen to see the ocean acting strangely and started to focus on the ocean ahwell
 
123 000 now dead...

apparently 200 or so finns are still missing. It's starting to seem as if most of them are dead :/
 
horrific. I read that 5 million, or more, have been 'displaced.' Read: they have no homes anymore.
With disease and such, I wouldn't be surprised to see the death toll rising quite a bit higher, still.

for more information on the earthquake, casualties, etc, check 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake Wikipedia page. Appears to contain recently updated information, as well as links to news, media, etc.

Edit: Has an interesting animation showing the path of the tsunami, as well as a 156meg torrent of four vids. I'm downloading to check it.
 
Screens of the islands being hit (before and after) by the Tsunami.

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I just can't believe it actually changed the rotation of the Earth (even a tiny tiny bit is amazing to me) and it bumped the Earth up an inch on it's axis.

I wonder how high the casualties will go...
 
AmishSlayer said:
I just can't believe it actually changed the rotation of the Earth (even a tiny tiny bit is amazing to me) and it bumped the Earth up an inch on it's axis.

I wonder how high the casualties will go...
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I'm sorry if I missed it, but where has it been proven yet that it actually did change the rotation of the Earth?

Again...I'm not trying to be rude or anything, I just haven't seen anything yet that proves it.
 
On the NASA site it mentions it somewhere, i dont have the topic now but when i find it i shall post it.
 
heard on the radio that as 2500 swedes and 1000 german tourists may have been killed as well.

one estmate expects that after desease deaths, the total number will eventually be around 400,000 dead. ****ing crazy....

at the USGS web page, it mentions that the length of the day has been changed by 2.676 microseconds as a result of this earthquake.
link here.
 
Phisionary said:
heard on the radio that as 2500 swedes and 1000 german tourists may have been killed as well.

one estmate expects that after desease deaths, the total number will eventually be around 400,000 dead. ****ing crazy....

at the USGS web page, it mentions that the length of the day has been changed by 2.676 microseconds as a result of this earthquake.
link http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/usslav/neic_slav_faq.html]here.
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Well there you go baal...

In other words it messed with the earths rotation.
 
nofx said:
You know whats really interesting a helicopter flew over a zoo in Sri Lanka and none of the animals were dead they seeked higher ground. The article said that maybe animals have a sixth sense
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2 Children were saved when the elephant they were riding along on the sri lankan beach suddenly bolted inland about 30 mins before the tsunami hit...
 
3500 missing. Most of them probably dead. This is the worst catastrophe that has happend to Sweden in hundreds of years.
 
It could not have hit at a worse time for tourists...

A lot of English people go over to places in Asia to teach English, then during Christmas travel around Asia, most likely to beach resorts, which were the places that got hit the hardest. My sister and my brother-in-law was at one of those resorts that got hit a year ago or so when she was teaching in Korea then traveled for Christmas, it's probably non-existant now.

There was a survivor story not unlike the scenario I just explained, she got pretty lucky. I heard it on the radio last night. She was Canadian I believe.
 
[Matt] said:
2 Children were saved when the elephant they were riding along on the sri lankan beach suddenly bolted inland about 30 mins before the tsunami hit...
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i wonder if that Elephant Knew that something bad was going to happen :|
 
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