Huge Quake - Asia

[Mayet]

The planet is wobbling with a magnetic field displacement after a quake measured 8.9 hit off Indonesia along an undersea faultline. Largest since 1964.
The resulting tsunami has killed over 11000 at the moment and that figure will rise..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4125845.stm

[NooNoo]

The devastation shown on the videos... lets hope there are enough local resources to cope and that the richer governments get aid there quickly.

[Mayet]

I just saw a couple of kids swept away in Pakistan.

What amazed me was that there wsa a camera man filming these kids screaming for help and kept filming instead of trying to do something, anything to help them. He kept filming them screaming until a few just washed away.

It was the that moment it hit home, not just my heart breaking for somebodies child but my heart shattering at the way the world has come, that 15 minutes of great footage is worth more than those kids lives.

[Major Kong]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/usslav/


The USGS is now calling it a 9.0! The devistation is terrible...

[TripleRLtd]

What amazed me was that there wsa a camera man filming these kids screaming for help and kept filming instead of trying to do something, anything to help them. He kept filming them screaming until a few just washed away.

It was the that moment it hit home, not just my heart breaking for somebodies child but my heart shattering at the way the world has come, that 15 minutes of great footage is worth more than those kids lives.

Absolutely horrendous event. Talk about tragedy! A top five quake in a century.

"It's an extraordinary calamity of such colossal proportions that the damage has been unprecedented," said Chief Minister Jayaram Jayalalithaa of India's Tamil Nadu, a southern state which reported 1,705 dead, many of them strewn along beaches, virtual open-air mortuaries.



"It all seems to have happened in the space of 20 minutes. A massive tidal wave of extreme ferocity ... smashed everything in sight to smithereens," she said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...sia_earthquake

[WebHead]

Yeah,.. that is a monster quake. Yeesh!
Hopefully our friend TechZ is ok. He's closer to that area than anyone else on WD I think.

[Mayet]

Yup, he was in chat earlier on about 4 hours ago ...ooh he went off about the time it hit Africa to go to sleep....

[Ya_know]

I just can't fathom the extent of damage. 11000 dead in only initial estimates...and such a wide scale of damage. This puts in perspective a lot about life in general and just how insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things...

[hudsonsmith]

Estimates are over 22,000 this morning. What really saddens me is that the waves took 5-6 hours to reach some of the affected areas, yet there was no way to warn these people. They are reporting dead in Somalia - 3,000 miles from the epicenter.

[Ya_know]

Estimates are over 22,000 this morning. What really saddens me is that the waves took 5-6 hours to reach some of the affected areas, yet there was no way to warn these people. They are reporting dead in Somalia - 3,000 miles from the epicenter.

I suspect that number may climb to 40K with as quickly as the number is climbing...

They've been talking about that a lot on the news, about no early warning. I think now there will be something implemented in the very near future...

[Stalemate]

That is truly horrendous.

[TechZ]

Yup, he was in chat earlier on about 4 hours ago ...ooh he went off about the time it hit Africa to go to sleep....

I heard my name! No no effects here at ALL! Its the same as it ever was, if there was no such thing as news, we would have never know, and we live on an Island! Though lots of my friends/family have been around, near the areas hit in Pakistan/India. Though I've been in floods before, going to the train station in India, water till the glass of the car!

My uncle built his hotel a few feet from the ground (height) cause it would always fill up with water.