South Asian quake kills 100000+

[Canndy]

ABC News

 

[artikk]

Originally posted by: Canndy
ABC News

:Q:shocked::brokenheart:

 

[Canndy]

The most powerful earthquake to be ever hit in 40 YEARS! it is sad. The dead is more than 10,000.

 

[wchou]

More Cambodian and Vietnamese were killed during the Vietnam war then this quake alone.
This is tamed in comparison. Only 10K? God, compare that to 3 millions or more!
Proving that human casualty from wars is much more serious then this.
:roll:

 

[bamacre]

repost

 

[Engineer]

Doesn't matter if it's a repost, still warrants a

 

[raildogg]

A lot of the people who died lived on the coastlines of these countries and were poor. I saw about 400 fishermen in India die, in one of the reports.

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: Canndy
ABC News

Surprisng no early warning systems.

 

[Engineer]

Total approaching 12,000 now!

 

[digiram]

Damn, I hope it didn't hit any of my relatives!!! , very very sad!!!!

 

[Engineer]

Reports of 13,340 or more now!

DASM!

 

[imported_Aelius]

Quick facts:

A tsunami can reach speeds in excess of 600MPH (jet plane).

The speed will diminish as it reaches deeper or more shallow water.

As the wave reaches shallow water it will rise from the ocean and generally it's between 50 and 100 feet high before it hits dry land.

Such waves generally have a 1,000 feet reach inland.

The largest recorded wave was 1,722 feet which hit Lituya Bay Alaska in 1958. This is due to the nearness of the land to the epicentre of the underwater earthquake. Lituya Bay was virtually wiped off the face of the Earth.

 

[Engineer]

Nearing 21,000 now!

 

[Infohawk]

Anyone know of videos of the wave?

 

[raildogg]

Originally posted by: Infohawk
Anyone know of videos of the wave?

i've seen some of them, about 3 or 4. in all of you can see people being eaten up by the water.

in one however, i was shocked and disturbed, really. It was a upclose shot of a couple holding on to each other, they were european i believe british or australian by their accents. they were swept away by a huge force of water. that is really really sad

 

[Infohawk]

Where did you find them? I'm not into the disturbing stuff but I'd like to see the size of the wave (pictures don't seem to do it justice).

 

[raildogg]

here you go

theres also a vid about a close up of a couple i believe clinging to a object but eventually losing to the great amound of water, its really sad ... i'll post it later

*edit *

oh nevermind, i saw this vid somewhere else and didnt notice its in this link as well

 

[Infohawk]

thanks. that's crazy. I would have thought it was more sudden than that it seemed to steadily get worse. I wonder what happened to that couple...

I think you posted the one with the couple that gets pushed away. Might as well post the other one too...

 

[raildogg]

Originally posted by: Infohawk
thanks. that's crazy. I would have thought it was more sudden than that it seemed to steadily get worse. I wonder what happened to that couple...

I think you posted the one with the couple that gets pushed away. Might as well post the other one too...

they're all there

 

[alchemize]

Can we sticky a thread that has donation links?

http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varz...4I/002-9864575-4233668

 

[SViscusi]

Originally posted by: Infohawk
thanks. that's crazy. I would have thought it was more sudden than that it seemed to steadily get worse. I wonder what happened to that couple...

I think you posted the one with the couple that gets pushed away. Might as well post the other one too...

They showed the video on Olberman tonight and he said the husband was treated for an arm injury and the wife is still missing.

 

[wchou]

Originally posted by: bamacre
repost

 

[Steeplerot]

later Scott

now you can listen to morrissey and noone will bitch....