After today's fun-filled tournament, spare a thought for the victims of the earthquake-caused tsunami that has killed an estimated 23,000+ people. :(
TL.
Yeah, very tradgic.
i couldn't belive my eyes when i first heard about it :(
Yup. It is all over the news here in Sweden as Thailand is a popular christmas vacation for Swedish families. I think everyone I talked to knows someone down there right now. :(
Just shows that no matter how strong we think we are: nature's stronger.
My thoughts to those affected by this.
My brother has inlaws in Phuket, so Christmas this year has been a 'nightmare'. Happily they are OK, although fairly traumatised. I read about these disasters in the papers and see the images on the TV, but until I was personally involved (even if indirectly) it never seemed that real. Sort of like watching a movie? That may mean I'm a bit shallow, I don't know. Now though, it's very different :(
QuoteOriginally posted by smilodon@Dec 28 2004, 12:28 PM
My brother has inlaws in Phuket, so Christmas this year has been a 'nightmare'. Happily they are OK, although fairly traumatised. I read about these disasters in the papers and see the images on the TV, but until I was personally involved (even if indirectly) it never seemed that real. Sort of like watching a movie? That may mean I'm a bit shallow, I don't know. Now though, it's very different :(
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Feel the same way, have two classmates there and my father has two close friends that no one has hearde from. And in each case people that was there with them has been heard from. :(
It was reckoned the waves were over 30ft high and were travelling at around 300mph. I can't imagine what it must have been like to go through somethinmg like that so my thoughts are definately with all that have been affected by this tragedy.
Does anyone know what the lastest figure is? (for the number confirmed dead)
Over 84,000 I believe but as you might imagine that will rise. Thailand says that almost all of the 6,000 people missing are probably dead :(
I allready heard a larger number on the TV here. There seems to be someone missing from my hometown aswell. I know the son of the woman that's missing. I didn't know it got so close to me.
:(
BBC news now reporting more than 114,000 :(
I have found this image which gives you some idea about how quickly it all happened and the area that is affected.
(http://staff.aist.go.jp/kenji.satake/animation.gif)
Excuse my ignorance, but why has there been no mention of Bangladesh. They must have been hit hard. They flood every year, this must have devasted them? Or were they lucky, or am I stupid?
QuoteOriginally posted by Benny@Dec 31 2004, 09:58 AM
Excuse my ignorance, but why has there been no mention of Bangladesh. They must have been hit hard. They flood every year, this must have devasted them? Or were they lucky, or am I stupid?
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According to BBC Website 2 people have died in Bangladesh. I think that their coastline might have been sheltered by the islands to the north of Indonesia (see GFKs map)
BBC Map of affected area (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4136781.stm#map)
They were hit but apparantly not that bad. Bangladesh is as far north you can get and in the way of the Tsunami wave were the Adaman and Nicobar islands.
http://worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/as.htm (http://worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/as.htm)
Well, you can see it in the image above posted by GFK.
QuoteOriginally posted by Benny@Dec 31 2004, 09:58 AM
Excuse my ignorance, but why has there been no mention of Bangladesh. They must have been hit hard. They flood every year, this must have devasted them? Or were they lucky, or am I stupid?
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GFK's picture shows that the wave was predominatley an east west event, so very littlle of it's force was directed to the north or south. THIS LINK (http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/0,5860,1380592,00.html) shows a flash animation of what happened. News channels showing pictures of consentric rings radiating out from the epicentre of the quake are misleading. The epicentre was in fact a 1500 mile long strip running north south along the fault line. Bangladesh and Burma weren't effected because there simply was no wave heading their way. Tht'as not entirely true as there was a small impact which sadly killed some people, nut nothing on the scale of coastlines to the east and west of the quake.