"great" earthquake in Indonesia - magnitude 8.9!

[Beau]

Originally posted by: Robor
Those poor, poor people... :brokenheart:

What is the best way to send $$$ for relief? I don't have much but I'd like to help.

Redcross. See the thread at the top of OT.

 

[raildogg]

Originally posted by: Snapster

Originally posted by: zugzoog

Originally posted by: rickn

Originally posted by: saxguy

Originally posted by: zugzoog
I am not going to criticise the US, Australia's, or the EU's contributions until the major Islamic countries also cough up some dough. Considering that Indonesia is the most populous Muslim country on Earth and that there are Muslim populations on the Malay Penisula and in Sri Lanka AND that Muslim countries have DUTY to assist other Muslim countries, the response from the major Muslim countries has been deplorable.

As far as I know Kuwait has pledged US$1 million and Pakistan is sending tents and medical supplies. Turkey is sending Earthquake experts. Apart from that Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt have only offered condolences.

That is my little rant. If anyone has any updated information that corrects me, please reply to the topic, I would love to be proven wrong.

you have got to be kidding me. this is a worldwide disaster and you rant about religion?

Don't listen to that guy making assinine assumptions and bringing religion into it. Saudi Arabia last I heard has so far pledged $3 or 4 million in aid

Saudia Arabia currently at $10 million Linky. I am happy now.

Some more figures:

KEY AID PLEDGES
World Bank $250m
UK $96m
EU $44m
US: $35m
Canada: $33m
Japan: $30m
Australia: $27m
France: $20.4m
Denmark: $15.6m
Saudi Arabia: $10m
Norway: $6.6m
Taiwan: $5.1m
Finland: $3.4m
Kuwait: $2.1m
Netherlands: $2.6m
UAE: $2m
Ireland $1.3m
Singapore: $1.2m

source

After the pathetic initial £15m from the British government, the British public had a whip round and managed to raise £20m overnight, the red faced government upped their contribution!

*Edit* in what seems a low figure from the US I believe they are doing more than most logistics wise with troops, air transporters etc to get the aid actually spread in the region, which you can't really measure in money. Props to everyone who is helping.

Britain will now give 1 billion pounds. at least thats what i heard

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: raildogg

Originally posted by: Snapster

Originally posted by: zugzoog

Originally posted by: rickn

Originally posted by: saxguy

Originally posted by: zugzoog
I am not going to criticise the US, Australia's, or the EU's contributions until the major Islamic countries also cough up some dough. Considering that Indonesia is the most populous Muslim country on Earth and that there are Muslim populations on the Malay Penisula and in Sri Lanka AND that Muslim countries have DUTY to assist other Muslim countries, the response from the major Muslim countries has been deplorable.

As far as I know Kuwait has pledged US$1 million and Pakistan is sending tents and medical supplies. Turkey is sending Earthquake experts. Apart from that Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt have only offered condolences.

That is my little rant. If anyone has any updated information that corrects me, please reply to the topic, I would love to be proven wrong.

you have got to be kidding me. this is a worldwide disaster and you rant about religion?

Don't listen to that guy making assinine assumptions and bringing religion into it. Saudi Arabia last I heard has so far pledged $3 or 4 million in aid

Saudia Arabia currently at $10 million Linky. I am happy now.

Some more figures:

KEY AID PLEDGES
World Bank $250m
UK $96m
EU $44m
US: $35m
Canada: $33m
Japan: $30m
Australia: $27m
France: $20.4m
Denmark: $15.6m
Saudi Arabia: $10m
Norway: $6.6m
Taiwan: $5.1m
Finland: $3.4m
Kuwait: $2.1m
Netherlands: $2.6m
UAE: $2m
Ireland $1.3m
Singapore: $1.2m

source

After the pathetic initial £15m from the British government, the British public had a whip round and managed to raise £20m overnight, the red faced government upped their contribution!

*Edit* in what seems a low figure from the US I believe they are doing more than most logistics wise with troops, air transporters etc to get the aid actually spread in the region, which you can't really measure in money. Props to everyone who is helping.

Britain will now give 1 billion pounds. at least thats what i heard

WTF are you on about?

 

[Locut0s]

Here's an amazing and scary footage of the wave, or one of them at least, striking a resort at Phuket as taken by a tourist. Unlike other videos where I think you only see smaller aftermath waves which for the most part don't look that disastrous, this video really gives you a sense of how people could easily get killed and swept away!

http://www.waveofdestruction.o...namiphuket.wmv.torrent

If you don't have Bittorrent you can find the movie directly here:

http://www.waveofdestruction.o....org-tsunamiphuket.wmv

I recommend the BT link though as it takes stress off the servers of this site and is much faster.

 

[Regs]

120,000 human lives and counting. Women, childrean, infants. My god In my life time, 22 years, I have never seen such a massive loss of life. By the time they are done counting bodies like sheep it's going to be worse than WW2.

 

[raildogg]

Originally posted by: Regs
120,000 human lives and counting. Women, childrean, infants. My god In my life time, 22 years, I have never seen such a massive loss of life. By the time they are done counting bodies like sheep it's going to be worse than WW2.

well in ww2, about 40 million people died. other numbers say 100 million.

i dont think its going to be that high, but its just really brutal for those poor people who have to go thru this

 

[SSP]

Why cant we get a sticky on this? Is a Gmail thread more important?

 

[blodhi74]

Originally posted by: SSP
Why cant we get a sticky on this? Is a Gmail thread more important?

agreed .... another vote for sticky

 

[novasatori]

Originally posted by: novasatori
merry xmas!

Well I feel like I owe an apology for this statement.

In the beginning there was not much information and I mainly pictured a lot of property damage, so I thought it was ironic that we (I) was finishing celebrating christmas while others were experiencing this.

Now I feel compelled to apologize due to the fact, I severly misunderstood the gravity of the event, and did not expect so many to perish.

Again, I'm sorry for that and hope everyone can get the help they need.

 

[Horus]

Originally posted by: raildogg

Originally posted by: Snapster

Originally posted by: zugzoog

Originally posted by: rickn

Originally posted by: saxguy

Originally posted by: zugzoog
I am not going to criticise the US, Australia's, or the EU's contributions until the major Islamic countries also cough up some dough. Considering that Indonesia is the most populous Muslim country on Earth and that there are Muslim populations on the Malay Penisula and in Sri Lanka AND that Muslim countries have DUTY to assist other Muslim countries, the response from the major Muslim countries has been deplorable.

As far as I know Kuwait has pledged US$1 million and Pakistan is sending tents and medical supplies. Turkey is sending Earthquake experts. Apart from that Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt have only offered condolences.

That is my little rant. If anyone has any updated information that corrects me, please reply to the topic, I would love to be proven wrong.

you have got to be kidding me. this is a worldwide disaster and you rant about religion?

Don't listen to that guy making assinine assumptions and bringing religion into it. Saudi Arabia last I heard has so far pledged $3 or 4 million in aid

Saudia Arabia currently at $10 million Linky. I am happy now.

Some more figures:

KEY AID PLEDGES
World Bank $250m
UK $96m
EU $44m
US: $35m
Canada: $33m
Japan: $30m
Australia: $27m
France: $20.4m
Denmark: $15.6m
Saudi Arabia: $10m
Norway: $6.6m
Taiwan: $5.1m
Finland: $3.4m
Kuwait: $2.1m
Netherlands: $2.6m
UAE: $2m
Ireland $1.3m
Singapore: $1.2m

source

After the pathetic initial £15m from the British government, the British public had a whip round and managed to raise £20m overnight, the red faced government upped their contribution!

*Edit* in what seems a low figure from the US I believe they are doing more than most logistics wise with troops, air transporters etc to get the aid actually spread in the region, which you can't really measure in money. Props to everyone who is helping.

Britain will now give 1 billion pounds. at least thats what i heard

Canada is up to 40 million USD.

Not bad, eh? And the blood is flowin' at the universities, I can tell ya that! I mean, bloodbanks.

 

[ezland00]

Some more figures:

KEY AID PLEDGES
World Bank $250m
UK $96m
EU $44m
US: $35m
Canada: $33m
Japan: $30m
Australia: $27m
France: $20.4m
Denmark: $15.6m
Saudi Arabia: $10m
Norway: $6.6m
Taiwan: $5.1m
Finland: $3.4m
Kuwait: $2.1m
Netherlands: $2.6m
UAE: $2m
Ireland $1.3m
Singapore: $1.2m


China is most powerful country in Asia. How come they are not on the list???

 

[imported_umbra]

I heard on the news it's now like half bil also physer donated 35 mil and cisco donated 2.5 mil damn a drug company matched our contribution we suck

 

[imported_umbra]

oh and 5 million people are without food or water or housing at a minimuman so they are risk of dying due to disease and lack of clean drinking water

 

[rh71]

I'm not up to par on politics, but why aren't the Russians donating either ?

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: umbra
I heard on the news it's now like half bil also physer donated 35 mil and cisco donated 2.5 mil damn a drug company matched our contribution we suck

Pfizer is donating $10mil plus $25mil worth of healthcare products.

 

[Snapster]

Originally posted by: ezland00
Some more figures:

KEY AID PLEDGES
World Bank $250m
UK $96m
EU $44m
US: $35m
Canada: $33m
Japan: $30m
Australia: $27m
France: $20.4m
Denmark: $15.6m
Saudi Arabia: $10m
Norway: $6.6m
Taiwan: $5.1m
Finland: $3.4m
Kuwait: $2.1m
Netherlands: $2.6m
UAE: $2m
Ireland $1.3m
Singapore: $1.2m


China is most powerful country in Asia. How come they are not on the list???

They've just donated $60m this morning.

 

[TheNiceGuy]

One of my coworkers sent me a mail on the 26th-

Well, I'm in Thailand and the job search isn't exactly going to well now that I've got about 50 cm of re-bar sticking through my guts. At least the internet in the hospital is free. Anyway, for those who don't know, a big ass tsunami slammed into the south coast of Thailand this morning. Quite a few people dead, missing or injured. I was in a cab when the wave hit and got a piece of metal through the side of my gut. Docs say it looks a lot worse than it is and it didn't hit anything vital. Just sort of an involuntary liposuction procedure. What fun.

And this a little later-

Well, the power and most communications went down about an hour after I wrote my last email. Things are pretty crazy here right now, as I'm sure you know. Sickest thing is all the dickheads with minicams filming everything and hoping to cash in. I was lucky enough to be a few blocks inland when the wave hit. I was busy looking over a map and didn't even see it coming.

Nothing here in Japan!

 

[cronos]

what's scarier is that this disaster is not over yet!!

look at the dates folks, these areas are still experiencing earthquakes.

 

[cronos]

here they are in a graphical representation.

 

[Fandu]

Yikes!! Indonesia now estimating 400,000+ dead!

Linkage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2...#Damage_and_casualties
Direct Story: http://www.bernama.com/bernama...ews_lite.php?id=111574

 

[raildogg]

Originally posted by: Fandu
Yikes!! Indonesia now estimating 400,000+ dead!

Linkage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2...#Damage_and_casualties
Direct Story: http://www.bernama.com/bernama...ews_lite.php?id=111574

3-5 million deaths in africa??? wtf?

*edit*

south africa i mean

 

[Locut0s]

Fandu: From the source they quoted from that's really only a guess based on a preliminary flyover of the most decimated areas. Some of the towns and cities worst hit look to have been wiped off the face of the earth from the air and no survivors are apparent. However that doesn't mean that there aren't any and we won't know till we get into these areas. I wouldn't put too much weight on that figure yet, doesn't seem like any of the news agencies are yet either. That's not to say though that the numbers won't rise dramatically when they do get in there, it definitely will.

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: raildogg

Originally posted by: Fandu
Yikes!! Indonesia now estimating 400,000+ dead!

Linkage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2...#Damage_and_casualties
Direct Story: http://www.bernama.com/bernama...ews_lite.php?id=111574

3-5 million deaths in africa??? wtf?

*edit*

south africa i mean

Where do you see that figure? The only 3-5 million I see is the total number of displaced.

 

[Locut0s]

I've tabulated a list of world aid pledges, taken from an article on the BBC's web site, and adjusted for the USs $350m contribution. I'm not 100% sure all the figures are the latest. I've also calculated what each amount represents as a % of the GDP of each country, using data from the CIA world fact book:

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

This is not meant as a politically motivated post, just some interesting figures.

------------------------------------------------------------
$ | %
|
World Bank $250m |
EU $44m |
UK $96m | 0.005
US: $350m | 0.0035
Canada: $33m | 0.0034
Japan: $30m | 0.00083
Australia: $27m | 0.0047
France: $20.4m | 0.0012
Denmark: $15.6m | 0.0093
Saudi Arabia: $10m | 0.0034
Norway: $6.6m | 0.0038
Taiwan: $5.1m | 0.00096
Finland: $3.4m | 0.0023
Kuwait: $2.1m | 0.00017
Netherlands: $2.6m | 0.00056
UAE: $2m | 0.0034
Ireland $1.3m | 0.0011
Singapore: $1.2m | 0.0010

If you read my original post I was out by a factor of 1000! Oops hehe. The site where I pulled the GDP data from for that post was all messed up.

 

[AmbitV]

whoa denmark 11.4% of gdp! Go Danes!