10,000 (estimated) dead in 8.9 Earthquake

[leet]

I read that Jet Li was vacationing in the Maldives with his family and is listed as missing.

As far as anyone knows right now, the Maldives have prettymuch ceased to exist.

 

[TimmyD]

Update on Jet Li. He phoned his agent and is ok.

 

[Eagle_Summit]

Everything happens for a reason.

 

[kelvinb]

pics of it coming and going. crazy kinda feel bad for um

http://www.pbase.com/issels/phuket_tsunami

 

[DevilSperm]

"phuket" <--cracks me up everytime.....i feel bad for those peeps too...that thing was huge

 

[leet]

Everything happens for a reason.

Yep, the ocean floor dropped out.

Now, if you were trying to be metaphysical..

 

[95tsiawdgst]

I like to watch late night travel shows on pbs where they go to all over the world and observe people's traditions. The strange thing is that last night was about India and it's beaches. I never knew it WAS that beautiful
I think its 23k dead as of now.

 

[aaronm_2003]

Death toll is up to around 44,000 now... And they are still having people was up on shores left and right.. They aniticipate a lot more to be added to the death count.

 

[diambo4life]

52,000!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm.../ap/20041228/ap_on_re_as/quake_tidal_waves_12.....other places reporting close to 55,000 ( http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041228/ts_afp/asiaquake_041228181815&e=2 ) people and it's still going up.

 

[Quasimondo]

This is bad, very very very bad. This isn't even taking into account the future deaths that will come from disease, especially with poor sanitation, no drinking water, etc.

I've been trying to track down the websites of known charaties who are accepting donations. I know the American Red Cross www.redcross.org will be looking for donations, but if you guys know of other organizations where donations will go specifically to help the victims, feel free to post them.

 

[vtracer20]

yeah that's nuts...52k people dead..the shitty thing is that most of them are children...i was watching the news and it showed a huge wave plow over a few dozen people mostly children hopfully they all survived

 

[WulfShadow]

yeah that's nuts...52k people dead..the shitty thing is that most of them are children...i was watching the news and it showed a huge wave plow over a few dozen people mostly children hopfully they all survived

not likely

 

[Bigglesworth87]

Jet Li story

There is the story on Jet Li.

This is horrible though. They have amature video online already too.

 

[WulfShadow]

This is bad, very very very bad. This isn't even taking into account the future deaths that will come from disease, especially with poor sanitation, no drinking water, etc.

I've been trying to track down the websites of known charaties who are accepting donations. I know the American Red Cross www.redcross.org will be looking for donations, but if you guys know of other organizations where donations will go specifically to help the victims, feel free to post them.

http://www.google.com/tsunami_relief.html

 

[CrazyClipse]

ALong with such a tragedy, our weather has been messed up, and I'm just wondering now if anyone is thinking of the movie Day After Tomorrow during all of this...? Honestly I'm kind of scarred.

Of course a movie is just that, but it still makes you think... I havent been able to watch the news much, but it really is devastating to those that lived there, my prayers are with the families and loved ones that have lost and still are missing...

 

[cwbroncos]

It does seem strange that we've had so much activity over the last year or two. Reminds me of that super volcano in yellowstone. Thats suposed to go in the near future. Of course near future for volcano's could be tomorrow or a 100 years. Still scarry to think of what could happen.

 

[psychlow]

Did anyone else notice that on 12/26/2003, an earthquake in Iran killed 26,000 people?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/uscvad.htm

Now we have 52,000 people dead on 12/26/2004...

 

[huafist]

The shift in the tectonic plates made the entire planet wobble - it also increased the earth's rate of rotation by .3 microseconds a day and moved the earth's axis a bit.

 

[vtracer20]

Day after tomorrow was made on pretty solid facts...this planet is changing and it's changing because of us and us burning so much fuel and heating the planet...it wouldn't suprise me that this stuff is jus tthe beginning...not saying this or next year but the start of soemthign bigger...

 

[DevilSperm]

Did anyone else notice that on 12/26/2003, an earthquake in Iran killed 26,000 people?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/uscvad.htm

Now we have 52,000 people dead on 12/26/2004...

God is cleaning the earth anybody read the damn bible? it says fire will rain from the sky....sooooo either aliens and asteroids will kill us, or it will be that damn caldera in yellowstone....

 

[95eclipseGST008]

58,000 total with 32,000 dead in Indonisia alone

 

[Whitetalonb16g]

I guess now BUSH is gonna goto war with earthquakes

 

[cwbroncos]

I guess this post is going to get ruined by some genius making this political.

 

[psychlow]

I guess now BUSH is gonna goto war with earthquakes

1.) Don't be stupid.
2.) Read the rules.

Day after tomorrow was made on pretty solid facts...this planet is changing and it's changing because of us and us burning so much fuel and heating the planet

I think this is a little far-fetched, personally. Us changing the world's climate a little bit doesn't cause 9.0 magnitude earthquakes.

In fact, there have probably been hundreds of earthquakes of this magnitude since man has been around. It's just that in the last couple centuries or so, more people have happened to have been in the way, where beforehand, no one was around to witness it.

 

[WulfShadow]

Day after tomorrow was made on pretty solid facts...

nope