Captain_Smile Report post Posted December 27, 2004 Yo guys, you heard what happened in south asia ? There was an earth quake of 9 in the richter scale, and a tidal wave ate up all the cost around it. over 16.000 dead They even declared there was a dead in Kenya source Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Freestyler Report post Posted December 27, 2004 Yep, i heard about that.. They even declared there was a dead in Kenya what ya meen by that? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
scarr Report post Posted December 27, 2004 that some1 is p00n'd ...doh Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
_JenS_ Report post Posted December 27, 2004 *slaps Satan* Thats not something to mess around with Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dorplein Report post Posted December 27, 2004 I'm all like:"Wait....I don't care" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Captain_Smile Report post Posted December 27, 2004 Now, they have counted 50.000 dead. And still they are digging up bodies. This is getting alarming. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wytter Report post Posted December 27, 2004 I don't think we can say anything about the death figures yet really - as far as I've heard, they've found ~23k dead, but tens of thousands are still missing. It's too early to say just how large the death figures will be in the end, but it will probably be 50k+. What's even more horrible is that millions of the survivors are now left homeless, out of work and some are missing family members. One can fear that several thousand of children will die because of the aftereffects of this tsunami. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Captain_Smile Report post Posted December 27, 2004 (edited) The worst bit for me is the organisation of these countries, and the SPREAD of the tsunami & earthquake. You find dead in Malaysia, Africa. The organisation of these countries will kill many more, Im sure. over 50 small villages on the coast have lost all their inhabitants, and the people are not there. So thats where the diseases and all that will start to speard. Happy new year (for them) Facts : SRI LANKA Sri Lankan military authorities report over 6,000 people killed in government-controlled and rebel-controlled areas INDIA At least 4,000 killed by waves which flooded the southern coast, official media report INDONESIA Local media report more than 4,400 dead -- many of them in Aceh, in northern Sumatra THAILAND Thai authorities say more than 430 are feared dead, and hundreds are missing MALDIVES At least 32 reported killed in the high waters on an island north of the capital, Male MALAYSIA At least 48 dead and 150 people reported missing BANGLADESH At least two people reported dead and several missing source NOTE : The news dates from this morning, so most of it may be out of date. death tolls reaching way higher. Prolly photoshoped, but hella impressive, pic of another tsunami, not linked with this one : pic. Edited December 27, 2004 by Captain_Smile Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wytter Report post Posted December 27, 2004 Indeed - fortunately Red Cross and other organisations are working hard to get supplies to the country. I just donated 25$ to Red Cross - not much, but it's all that I can offer and I hope it'll help a little. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Captain_Smile Report post Posted December 27, 2004 I just did the same. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheNewestNewbie Report post Posted December 27, 2004 *note: It's spelled "organization"...* Oh and about the homeless, poor, and injured and such... Don't forget - this is Asia. Most people are like that anyways... I'll light a candle. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wytter Report post Posted December 27, 2004 (edited) Yes, many asians are poor - problem is that now several millions just went from something to nothing... Fishing was actually bringing food on the table for millions and now their boats and fishing equipment is ruined - this is a major catastrophe for entire region and will have huge consequences in the future. But I am sure that the media will make thousands if not millions of people donating. Sad thing is that we never react the same way on the daily tragedies caused by lack of pure drinking water etc.. Edited December 27, 2004 by Wytter Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rebootedrock Report post Posted December 28, 2004 People are but a blip in time, passing and fading. I feel no compassion to those who I donot know. I donot care about my "fellow man". Which also means i donot care what others think, this simplifies life to a very easy to understand perspective. I act differently outside el, maybe you can catch a glimpse of me more often.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tigger Report post Posted December 28, 2004 Would say something, but this is not flames..lol The death count is at about 25k right now and going up by the hour i am sure.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Aislinn Report post Posted December 28, 2004 Its on the news right now and they are saying 50k+ for the death toll now Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wytter Report post Posted December 28, 2004 (edited) And it will probably increase to 80-100k+ when all the missing people that have been flushed into the sea gets into the figures. Then there's also the diseases afterwards http://staff.aist.go.jp/kenji.satake/animation.gif Edited December 28, 2004 by Wytter Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Captain_Smile Report post Posted December 28, 2004 Yea 50k + death tolls. Including Nicobar who has been utterly flushed by the tsunami (went right over it) Well, lets hope the other tsunamies planned in the week coming will not kill off all the surviving guys. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tigger Report post Posted December 28, 2004 Its on the news right now and they are saying 50k+ for the death toll now Fox news, CNN and my local news has the death rate at 44k as of now and will be going up with more reports coming in and they say diseases will add 50k or so more.... not a good place to be now... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
_WinDo_ Report post Posted December 29, 2004 (edited) The autorities think we are not far of 100,000 death... Edited December 29, 2004 by _WinDo_ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Captain_Smile Report post Posted December 29, 2004 68k confirmed dead this morning Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
(Athosino) Report post Posted December 29, 2004 70k today Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Captain_Smile Report post Posted December 29, 2004 156 dead in east africa, 72k tonight Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Eldwen Report post Posted December 29, 2004 A 5.7 aftershock just hit the same place where the orginal earthquake hit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tigger Report post Posted December 29, 2004 12/29/2004 17:02:44 EST Tsunami Death Toll Soars to Near 77,000 By CHRIS BRUMMITT Associated Press Writer BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - As the world scrambled to the rescue, survivors fought over packs of noodles in quake-stricken Indonesian streets Wednesday while relief supplies piled up at the airport for lack of cars, gas or passable roads to move them. The official death toll across 12 countries soared to near 77,000 and the Red Cross predicted it could pass 100,000. Bodies were piled into mass graves to ward off disease. Paramedics in southern India began vaccinating thousands of survivors against cholera, typhoid, hepatitis A and dysentery, and authorities sprayed bleaching powder on beaches where bodies have been recovered. In Sri Lanka, reports of waterborne disease such as diarrhea caused fears of an epidemic. President Bush announced the United States, India, Australia and Japan have formed an international coalition to coordinate relief and reconstruction of the 3,000 miles of Indian Ocean rim walloped by Sunday's earthquake and the tsunami it unleashed. "We're facing a disaster of unprecedented proportion in nature," said Simon Missiri, a top Red Cross official. "We're talking about a staggering death toll." On hundreds of Web sites, the messages were brief but poignant: "Missing: Christina Blomee in Khao Lak," or simply, "Where are you?" All conveyed the aching desperation of people the world over whose friends and family went off in search of holiday-season sun and sand and haven't been heard from for four days. But even as hope for the missing dwindled, survivors continued to turn up Wednesday. In Sri Lanka, where more than 22,000 died, a lone fisherman named Sini Mohammed Sarfudeen was rescued by an air force helicopter crew after clinging to his wave-tossed boat for three days. Indian air force planes evacuated thousands of survivors from the remote island of Car Nicobar. Some of them had walked for days from their destroyed villages to reach a devastated but functioning airfield, where they were shuttled out 80 to 90 at a time. Journalists were not allowed to leave the base to verify reports that some 8,000 people were dead there, but at the base alone, 67 officers and their families were missing and feared dead. India's death toll rose to nearly 7,000, while Indonesia's stood at 45,268, but authorities said this did not include a full count from Sumatra's west coast, where more than 10,000 deaths were suspected in one town alone. In Sumatra, the Florida-sized Indonesian island close to the epicenter of the quake, the view from the air was of whole villages ripped apart, covered in mud and seawater. In one of the few signs of life, a handful of desperate people scavenged a beach for food. On the streets of Banda Aceh, the main town of Sumatra's Aceh province, the military managed to drop supplies from vehicles and fights broke out over packs of instant noodles. Maj. Gen. Endang Suwarya, military commander of Aceh province, said after flying over the stricken region that 75 percent of the west coast of Sumatra was destroyed. Footage shot by an Associated Press Television News cameraman on the military helicopter showed town after town covered in mud and sea water. Homes had their roofs ripped off or were flattened. A solitary mosque and green treetops were all that broke the line of water in one town. With tens of thousands of people still missing across the entire region, Peter Ress, Red Cross operations support chief, said the death toll could top 100,000. More than 500,000 were reported injured. "We have little hope, except for individual miracles," Jean-Marc Espalioux, chairman of the Accor hotel group, said of the search for thousands of tourists and locals missing from beach resorts of southern Thailand - including 2,000 Scandinavians. The State Department said 12 Americans died in the disaster - seven in Sri Lanka and five in Thailand. About 2,000 to 3,000 Americans were unaccounted for. Bush, at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, talked by phone Wednesday with leaders of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and India. "We're still in the stage of immediate help. But slowly but surely, the size of the problem will become known, particularly when it comes to rebuilding infrastructure and community to help these affected parts of the world get back up on their feet," Bush said afterward. The Pentagon says it will divert several U.S. warships and helicopters to the region, some of which can produce up to 90,000 gallons of drinking water a day. Without clean water, respiratory and waterborne diseases could break out within days, putting millions at "grave risk," the U.N. children's agency said. "Standing water can be just as deadly as moving water," said UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy. "The floods have contaminated the water systems, leaving people with little choice but to use unclean surface water." Near Banda Aceh, trucks dumped more than 1,000 bloated, unidentified bodies into pits. There was no choice, given the danger of disease and the difficulty of identifying any of the dead, said military Col. Achmad Yani Basuki. Thailand said it had more than 1,800 dead and a total of more than 300 were killed in Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, the Maldives, Somalia, Tanzania and Kenya. In Sri Lanka, four planes arrived in the capital bringing a mobile hospital from Finland, a water purification plant from Germany, doctors and medicine from Japan and aid workers from Britain, the Red Cross said. Supplies that included 175 tons of rice and 100 doctors reached Banda Aceh but officials said they were having difficulty moving it out. Widespread looting was reported in Thailand's devastated resort islands of Phuket and Phi Phi, where European and Australian tourists left valuables behind in wrecked hotels when they fled - or were swept away. An international airlift was under way to ferry critical aid and medicine to Phuket and to take home shellshocked travelers, some with nothing but the clothes they were wearing. France, Australia, Greece, Italy, Germany and Sweden were sending flights. The world's biggest reinsurer, Germany's Munich Re, estimated the damage to buildings and foundations in the affected regions would be at least $13.6 billion. Relief donations came in from all parts of the globe, from governments and from ordinary people who gave blood, money - even frequent flier miles - to help. Taxi drivers in Singapore put donation cans in their cars. In Thailand, volunteers used trucks with loudspeakers to solicit donations of food and clothing, and there were long lines to donate blood at the Red Cross. Hong Kong's kung fu movie hero Jackie Chan gave $64,000 to UNICEF, and Asia's richest man, Li Ka-shing, also of Hong Kong, gave $3.1 million to relief efforts. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest ridesign Report post Posted December 30, 2004 (edited) Visit this website to post information about missing people, in the Tsunami in Asia. Go to http://www.quakeinasia.com Edited December 30, 2004 by ridesign Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
