NJayDevil Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 (edited) Insane. Giant waves over 20-30 feet high and traveling at incredible speeds rocks the coasts of several countries down there. Including completely destroying rescorts where holiday travels have been swept away to sea. So sad.... It's the 2nd 8.0+ earthquake in the past 3 days. That's really scary. It's the strongest in 40 years and the fifth strongest the past century. Some guy from Italy said it was so powerful, it disturbed the Earth's rotation! And I read another report that waves traveled so far that it effected Somalia which is the eastern coast of Africa! That's thousands and thousands of miles away. This created 9 aftershocks, and they were still very powerful, between 5.8 and 7.3. Just imagine a giant wall of water coming at you at 100mph's...There isn't anything that's much scarier... Just go to Drudge Report to see or Yahoo or CNN to read reports of this massive earthquake. Imagine if the Eastern Coast of the US was ever on tectonic plates? Like New York all of a sudden getting hit by a 8.9 earthquake. It was would be worse than a nuclear bomb! Edited December 29, 2004 by redruM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
langsgirl Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 read about this this morning... very sad and tragic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJayDevil Posted December 26, 2004 Author Share Posted December 26, 2004 Well check that, the death toll is now 9300+! http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3929180 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevilMinder Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 Well check that, the death toll is now 9300+!http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3929180 Just scary stuff, this is the second 8.0+ earthquake this week. The sea is unpredictable normally but toss in tsunamis like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redruM Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 they said on the 11PM news the quale was a 9.0, only the 2nd ever recorded at 9 or over. the thing that amazed me was the tidal waves that hit like 6 different countries!!! friggen scarey... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek21 Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 I was looking at pics from this tragedy. Awful. I just can't imagine what people must be going through over there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redruM Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 21,000 dead....the pix I saw this Am were just scarey... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swede Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 A lot of people are still missing. I just heard from a cousin and aunt that are there on vacation and they are ok. But a friend of mine is missing a couple of friends of the family Horrible horrible situation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOTCB Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 What an absolute horror is right, seeing the pictures on TV and on the internet of bodies dead all over the place, frightening sight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOTCB Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 A lot of people are still missing. I just heard from a cousin and aunt that are there on vacation and they are ok. But a friend of mine is missing a couple of friends of the familyHorrible horrible situation <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Glad to hear that your cousin and aunt are ok, I will keep your friend and other friends of the family in my prayers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 Death toll is at 22,000 right now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swede Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 not to mention the millions that have become homeless Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJayDevil Posted December 27, 2004 Author Share Posted December 27, 2004 Now they are saying that the quake moved the entire island of Sumatra about 100 feet toward the southwest. Moved the entire island 100 feet! The sea is a scary place. No matter what man does to protect ourselves from the sea, whenever it gets anger, everything is just useless. The sea is, I think, the most powerful creation on our planet. It can conquer anything in its path and it's unpredictable. It's almost like we just don't belong out on the sea but we have no choice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redruM Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 Until we understand and can better predict eartquakes we are at the plkanets mercy. the sea is dangerous, but without the earthquakes there would have been no tsunamis..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 I heard that the quake disturbed the Earth's rotation.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weekes Head Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 I finally brought myself to look at the pictures this morning. I couldn't do it until then, it was just too much. God. What devastation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belizarius Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 Makes you small and humble i think. When i see that, i just wonder if anything is more important than life... religion? money? frontiers? everything is tossed away when our planet is angry. scary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redruM Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 saw some of the video from the tourists last night...was just amazed...speechless is the best way to put it.,... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swede Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 The saddest thing is that if they had had the system that we have in Hawaii, then much of this could have been avoided. Unfortunately it is, as always, an econonmical issue. Hopefully a tsunami warning system will be used there too in the future Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
point Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 This is a great tragedy for so many people. Back on Labor Day, a young woman I know who works for the State Dept told me she was being assigned to Sri Lanka. I found out yesterday she isn't reporting there until February. Was a mess she will see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciyenne Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 Some of the Brit tourists have arrived home, others are still stranded out there or are missing and as glad as I am that some, if no where near all, are safe, it makes me almost angry to think that as traumatising as it has been for those people, those travellers, in years to come it will become a tale to be recounted for children and friends and relatives but for the natives of the areas affected...they can't fly away from it all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOTCB Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 Now most major news websites are reporting the death toll is up to 44,000...I see things on the news about it and I cannot watch it too long, just too tough to watch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
langsgirl Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 The pictures were very saddening, i got very teary eyed when there was a picture of a man..a close up of his face and he was holding a a childs hand and kissing it and crying.. but thats all you saw was the arm and hand.. not his childs dead body. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOTCB Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 The pictures were very saddening, i got very teary eyed when there was a picture of a man..a close up of his face and he was holding a a childs hand and kissing it and crying.. but thats all you saw was the arm and hand.. not his childs dead body. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I agree, I was getting choked up watching those kind of pictures too...I heard that 1/3 of the victims are children and that upsets me more then anything...and think of all the kids that survived who know may have no parents...the devastation is almost beyond comprehension. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJayDevil Posted December 28, 2004 Author Share Posted December 28, 2004 60,000 is the death toll. God... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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