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#181 Postby jkt21787 » Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:09 pm

You just beat me LOL! See my new thread :lol:

Unbelieveable....
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#182 Postby Ivanova » Wed Dec 29, 2004 12:29 am



Hundreds of Americans Missing in Asia


"... the Navy also is dispatching the USS Abraham Lincoln
carrier strike group and the USS Bonhomme Richard
expeditionary strike group to the area. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... e/us_quake





They say that the US Navy base on the island of Diego Garcia
was unaffected... but the island is 4 to 22 feet above sea level...
in dead center of the Indian Ocean... and right in the path of the
deadly tsunami :eek:

So, you have to wonder.



Here is link to map and photos of Diego Garcia:

http://members.tripod.com/~cartoonlife/diegoinfo.html




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#183 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Wed Dec 29, 2004 2:49 am

DISASTER DISEASE THREAT

More than 68,000 people have now been confirmed dead across southern Asia following Sunday's tidal wave disaster, as the World Health Organisation warns that disease could double that number.

See Sky News and Sky News Active for the latest footage.


Rescue workers are uncovering more and more bodies.

Half of those killed across a huge swathe of Asia were in Indonesia, with the north-eastern province of Aceh almost completely destroyed.

Some 32,000 people are confirmed dead, but the country's vice president said the number could quickly rise to 40,000.

The world's biggest aid operation is getting into full swing.

Dozens of countries have promised millions of pounds so far but billions are thought to be needed.

The first supplies are just getting through to the areas hit hardest.

The disaster was caused by an underwater earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale, which caused huge tidal waves known as a tsunamis.
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#184 Postby michaelwmoss » Wed Dec 29, 2004 2:56 am

azsnowman wrote:
Jeb wrote:I am utterly devastated. All these disasters, are just too much. First the hurricanes in Florida, now this horrible tsunami. If I had been down there, I would have been taking a long jebwalk, and that terrible wave would have swept me away, I would have had no time at all to get away. I can't stand these disasters anymore, its getting so I don't want to look at the news anymore.


-Jeb :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(


I KNOW I'm gonna get blasted for this BUT.....I think the majority of Christians are looking to the Good Book for answers AND we KNOW the END result! I'm NOT saying it's getting CLOSE to the end but.....

I cannot even PHATOM the magnitude of destruction and that poor little Swedish girl, my God, what a TERRIBLE situation, MILLIONS are homeless, without food, water :cry:

Dennis :cry:


The disasters spoken of in the Bible and the end times will even put this event to shame in terms of destruction. It is something to even begin to think about that. The Book Of Revelation speaks of events like this
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#185 Postby yoda » Wed Dec 29, 2004 2:57 am

michaelwmoss wrote:
azsnowman wrote:
Jeb wrote:I am utterly devastated. All these disasters, are just too much. First the hurricanes in Florida, now this horrible tsunami. If I had been down there, I would have been taking a long jebwalk, and that terrible wave would have swept me away, I would have had no time at all to get away. I can't stand these disasters anymore, its getting so I don't want to look at the news anymore.


-Jeb :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(


I KNOW I'm gonna get blasted for this BUT.....I think the majority of Christians are looking to the Good Book for answers AND we KNOW the END result! I'm NOT saying it's getting CLOSE to the end but.....

I cannot even PHATOM the magnitude of destruction and that poor little Swedish girl, my God, what a TERRIBLE situation, MILLIONS are homeless, without food, water :cry:

Dennis :cry:


The disasters spoken of in the Bible and the end times will even put this event to shame in terms of destruction. It is something to even begin to think about that. The Book Of Revelation speaks of events like this


Not to say I am an expert, but I have read the Book of Revelation many times... and this is only the first of many IF IF IF this was the end of times.
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#186 Postby michaelwmoss » Wed Dec 29, 2004 3:04 am

Here is something of that mentioned in Revelation 6:12-17

12 And I looked when He broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood; 13 and the stars of the sky fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind. 14 And the sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. 15 And the kings of the earth and the great men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free man, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains; 16 and they said to the mountains and to the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; 17 for the great day of their wrath has come; and who is able to stand?
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#187 Postby yoda » Wed Dec 29, 2004 3:08 am

True... but as that says its the 6th Seal... we would have had the 4 horsemen by now if that happened... and I hope it won't be anytime soon. :eek:
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#188 Postby michaelwmoss » Wed Dec 29, 2004 3:09 am

yoda wrote:True... but as that says its the 6th Seal... we would have had the 4 horsemen by now if that happened... and I hope it won't be anytime soon. :eek:


Right, but these disasters will be even more devastating that what we are experiencing. It is like a "Warning"
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#189 Postby yoda » Wed Dec 29, 2004 3:14 am

michaelwmoss wrote:
yoda wrote:True... but as that says its the 6th Seal... we would have had the 4 horsemen by now if that happened... and I hope it won't be anytime soon. :eek:


Right, but these disasters will be even more devastating that what we are experiencing. It is like a "Warning"


Right. And hopefully we pay attention to that "warning." But you know there will be some who will not.
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#190 Postby JQ Public » Wed Dec 29, 2004 5:13 am

I don't get it? If its a warning what do you do to prevent other earthquakes?
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#191 Postby AussieMark » Wed Dec 29, 2004 5:33 am

You can't stop earthquakes.

All u can do is learn to liv with em.

Build better structures etc etc.

Unfortunately these nations hit by the quake and Tsunamis are some of the poorest countries in the world.

and these kind of death tolls are aways going to happen with Large quakes and/or large Tsunami's.
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#192 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Wed Dec 29, 2004 5:46 am

DISASTER DISEASE THREAT

More than 69,000 people have now been confirmed dead across southern Asia following Sunday's tidal wave disaster, as the World Health Organisation warns that disease could double that number.

See Sky News and Sky News Active for the latest footage.


Rescue workers are uncovering more and more bodies.

Half of those killed across Asia were in Indonesia.

The north-eastern province of Aceh has been almost completely destroyed. Soldiers have found 3,400 bodies there so far.

Some 32,000 people are confirmed dead in the country, but its vice president said the number could quickly rise to 40,000.

Sri Lanka says 22,500 people are confirmed killed.

Among the British victims is film director Lord Attenborough's 14-year-old granddaughter Lucy.

The world's biggest aid operation is getting into full swing.

Dozens of countries have promised millions of pounds so far but billions are thought to be needed.

Britain has pledged £15m, the United States £18m.

The first supplies are just getting through to the areas hit hardest.

The disaster was caused by an underwater earthquake off Sunmatra measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale, which caused huge tidal waves known as a tsunamis.
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#193 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Wed Dec 29, 2004 5:54 am

Race to Bury Asia's Dead as Toll Nears 70,000
Wed Dec 29, 2004 05:41 AM ET
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By Tomi Soetjipto and Dean Yates
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) - Thousands of corpses rotted in Indonesia's tropical sun on Wednesday as many who escaped death in the worst tsunami in recorded history faced a fight for survival against hunger and disease.

Rescuers scoured remote coastlines across the Indian Ocean for survivors of Sunday's giant waves that killed more than 68,000. The United Nations mobilized what it called the biggest relief operation in its history.

The ocean surge was triggered by a 9.0-magnitude undersea earthquake, the biggest in 40 years, off the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It spread in an arc of death across the Indian Ocean, striking from Indonesia to Sri Lanka and beyond to Africa.

U.S. scientists said the quake that set off the killer wall of water had permanently moved tectonic plates beneath the Indian Ocean as much as 98 feet, slightly shifting islands near Sumatra. It may also have made the Earth wobble on its axis.

Survivors told harrowing tales of the moment the tsunami, up to 33 feet high, struck towns and resorts, sucking holidaymakers into the sea, surging through buildings, sweeping cars from roads and smashing a train off its rails.

"The water was just too strong," said Surya Darmar, lying on an army cot outside the emergency ward of a military hospital in Banda Aceh on Wednesday, covered in cuts and with a broken leg.

"I held my children for as long as I could, but they were swept away."

UNICEF executive director Carol Bellamy said children could account for up to a third of the dead.

Indonesia has suffered the biggest number of victims, with 32,502 known to be dead and a final toll of 40,000 expected.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono spoke of "frightening reports" from outlying parts of Aceh province, on the northern tip of Sumatra and closest to the quake's epicenter.

Troops and rescue crews reached the town of Meulaboh on Aceh's west coast, about 90 miles from the earthquake's epicenter, to find dead bodies and rubble

"Today so far 3,400 bodies have been found in Meulaboh. Eighty percent of the buildings are wrecked," Chief Security Minister Widodo Adi Sutjipto told reporters.
The stench of decomposing corpses spread over the provincial capital, Banda Aceh, and fresh water, food and fuel were running short. Many in the city feared fresh quakes and tsunamis, and roads were filled with people trying to leave.

"There is no food here whatsoever. We need rice. We need petrol. We need medicine. I haven't eaten in two days," said Vaiti Usman, a woman in her mid-30s, gesturing angrily at her filthy sarong, saying it was the last of her possessions.

Soldiers and volunteers were collecting scattered corpses for mass burial.

AID TEAMS ARRIVE

The relief operation struggled to get going as health experts said disease could kill as many people as the waves.

Buddhist monks handed out rice and curry to survivors in Sri Lanka and aircraft dropped food to isolated Indonesian towns.

The World Food Program was trucking food to parts of Sri Lanka while the Red Cross sent sanitation teams to villages in Sri Lanka and Indonesia.

Munich Re, the world's largest reinsurer, estimated the cost of the devastation at more than $13 billion. Indonesia said the cost of rebuilding Sumatra would be $1 billion.

Secretary of State Colin Powell said the international community may have to give billions of dollars in aid. Washington more than doubled its pledge to $35 million and ordered 12 vessels, including the carrier Abraham Lincoln, to the region.

Australia increased its aid to $27 million and said it, the United States, Japan and India were considering setting up a group to coordinate help.

"A lot of the economies, or sectors of the economies, of the affected countries have been close to destroyed and it is going to require a great deal of rebuilding and a great deal of investment," said Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer.

In Sri Lanka, where the death toll topped 22,400, Tamil Tiger rebels appealed for help as they dug mass graves to bury thousands of bodies. All 135 children at an orphanage run by women rebels were killed.

Rescue teams headed out to the last of India's remote Andaman and Nicobar islands that have been cut off since Sunday. People on some of the isles have been surviving on coconuts.

India's overall toll of nearly 12,500 included at least 7,000 killed on the islands, which are closer to Myanmar and Indonesia than to the Indian mainland. On one, the surge of water killed two-thirds of the population.

"One in every five inhabitants in the entire Nicobar group of islands is either dead, injured or missing," a police official said. Dozens of aftershocks above 5.0 on the Richter scale have rocked the islands.

In parts of India's Tamil Nadu state officials gave up trying to count the dead and were counting survivors instead, while burying bodies as quickly as possible in mass graves.

In Thailand, where thousands of tourists had been enjoying a peak-season Christmas break away from the northern winter, many west-coast resorts were turned into graveyards.

A Thai government official gave Reuters a list showing that, out of the country's toll of more than 1,500 confirmed dead, 473 were known to be foreigners, among them 54 Swedes, 49 Germans, 43 Britons and 84 identified only as Caucasian.

Rescue workers had recovered 1,200 bodies at Khao Lak beach, north of Phuket island, and the toll there could rise to 3,000, police said. More than 300 dead had been found on Phi Phi island, made famous in the film "The Beach."

Throughout the region more than 3,500 foreigners were unaccounted for, among them at least 1,500 Swedes, 800 Norwegians, 214 Danes and 200 Finns.

Hundreds of people were killed in the Maldives, Myanmar and Malaysia. The arc of water struck as far away as Somalia and Kenya.

The region has seen huge killer waves before, including one when Krakatoa erupted off southern Sumatra in 1883, but Indian Ocean countries have no tsunami warning system.
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#194 Postby rainstorm » Wed Dec 29, 2004 6:20 am

horrible
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#195 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Wed Dec 29, 2004 7:21 am

DISASTER DISEASE THREAT

More than 73,000 people have now been confirmed dead across southern Asia following Sunday's tidal wave disaster, as the World Health Organisation warns that disease could double that number.

See Sky News and Sky News Active for the latest footage.


Half of those killed across Asia were in Indonesia.

The north-eastern province of Aceh has been almost completely destroyed.

One United Nations official estimates there could be between 50,000 and 80,000 dead there.

Michael Elmquist, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for Indonesia, told reporters that the coastal town of Meulaboh alone may have had 40,000 deaths.

Some 36,000 people are confirmed dead in the country, but its vice president said the number could quickly rise to 40,000.

Sri Lanka says 22,500 people are confirmed killed.

Among the British victims is film director Lord Attenborough's 14-year-old granddaughter Lucy, and a six-year-old British boy, Taylor Howard, from St Ives in Cornwall.

The world's biggest aid operation is getting into full swing.

Dozens of countries have promised millions of pounds so far but billions are thought to be needed.

Britain has pledged £15m, the US £18m.

The first supplies are just getting through to the areas hit hardest.

The disaster was caused by an underwater earthquake off Sunmatra measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale, which caused huge tidal waves known as a tsunamis.

India has said it will set up an early warning system for future tsunamis.
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#196 Postby Ivanova » Wed Dec 29, 2004 8:00 am

Three days later and large aftershocks continue
in the area... the latest, 5.8, 6.1 & 6.2... at least,
I guess these are aftershocks... they seem to
be increasing in intensity
:eek:

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/





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#197 Postby stormraiser » Wed Dec 29, 2004 9:28 am

It's not time for that, because, as it says in the book of Acts 3.21, "whom heaven, indeed, must hold within itself until the times of restoration of all things of which God spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets of old time"

And that hasn't happened yet. Things need to fall into place before He can return.

That hasn't
michaelwmoss wrote:Here is something of that mentioned in Revelation 6:12-17

12 And I looked when He broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood; 13 and the stars of the sky fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind. 14 And the sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. 15 And the kings of the earth and the great men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free man, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains; 16 and they said to the mountains and to the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; 17 for the great day of their wrath has come; and who is able to stand?
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#198 Postby Brent » Wed Dec 29, 2004 10:12 am

Now up to 76,700. :(
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#199 Postby michaelwmoss » Wed Dec 29, 2004 10:19 am

Good responses, glad to hear scripture in this discussion. Yep it is just the beginning. The world has been designed to take care of itself and sometimes that takes large forces to do so.

Tornadoes have been increasing as well across the world in the last few years
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#200 Postby Ivanova » Wed Dec 29, 2004 10:24 am

Death toll reaches 100,000


29 December 2004

The death toll in the tsunami disaster soared past 100,000 today
- and is set to climb higher.


http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articl ... ndard&ct=5



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