Update on death toll from December quake and tsunami
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chadtm80
Here is some amature video etc... All very sad.
http://www.downloaddungeon.com/mods/bre ... phuket.wmv
http://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/t ... aatste.asf
http://www.downloaddungeon.com/mods/bre ... beving.avi
http://politiken.dk/media/wvx/3537.WVX
http://www.downloaddungeon.com/mods/bre ... phuket.wmv
http://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/t ... aatste.asf
http://www.downloaddungeon.com/mods/bre ... beving.avi
http://politiken.dk/media/wvx/3537.WVX
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What a horrible event to have to see and experiance!!
I think disasters like these really make man-kind sit down and think... I am a mortal and my life can be over in a matter of minutes.
I for one sat down and had a really good think!!!!! Am I really living my life in a manner which is pleasing unto God, if I was taken tomorrow would I look back and be satisfied with what I had done with my time? Of course these are thing we should always be asking, but day to day life gets in the way... and morality becomes a hidden "clause" in the back of our minds. It saddens me to know that it takes a catastrophe to really make mankind realise there are bigger things in life than what kind of car we drive, or the color of our skins.,petty petty.. I would really hope to see mankind come together over this tragerdy and prove love and kindness go much further than the frivilous things we all tend to concentrate on.
My prayer is that the Lord would bring fast healing to the devestated nations and people who have suffered during this event.
I think disasters like these really make man-kind sit down and think... I am a mortal and my life can be over in a matter of minutes.
I for one sat down and had a really good think!!!!! Am I really living my life in a manner which is pleasing unto God, if I was taken tomorrow would I look back and be satisfied with what I had done with my time? Of course these are thing we should always be asking, but day to day life gets in the way... and morality becomes a hidden "clause" in the back of our minds. It saddens me to know that it takes a catastrophe to really make mankind realise there are bigger things in life than what kind of car we drive, or the color of our skins.,petty petty.. I would really hope to see mankind come together over this tragerdy and prove love and kindness go much further than the frivilous things we all tend to concentrate on.
My prayer is that the Lord would bring fast healing to the devestated nations and people who have suffered during this event.
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Matt-hurricanewatcher
Tsunami death toll tops 80,000
Officials just reaching hardest hit areas in Indonesia
Wednesday, December 29, 2004 Posted: 2:04 PM EST (1904 GMT)
Pyres of victims killed by tsunamis burn on a beach in the southern Indian state of Kerala, Wednesday.
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (CNN) -- The latest death toll from the Asian tsunami has increased to more than 80,000 as relief workers and supplies begin to reach some of the most devastated areas.
That number could top 100,000 by the time all bodies are recovered, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said Wednesday.
The dramatic rise of the death toll came after officials were finally able to reach remote regions -- like Indonesia's Aceh province, India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands and the Maldives.
More than half of the total deaths so far were in Indonesia, the nearest land mass to Sunday's undersea earthquake that triggered the deadly waves and flooding in about a dozen countries, from Thailand to East Africa.
The United Nations' Jan Egeland said one in every four people in some parts of Aceh had been killed.
He also said about $220 million in cash donations had been received or pledged so far for the relief effort and "perhaps and equal amount of funds in in-kind donations" such as military and civil defense aid.
Four days after the quake, Indonesian authorities said they had found mass destruction in Aceh. CNN's Mike Chinoy said the capital of Banda Aceh, which was closest to the epicenter of the quake, was largely destroyed.
Indonesia's Health Ministry confirmed Wednesday that the country's death toll had risen to 45,268, with another 1,240 people still missing.
In Sri Lanka, authorities increased the death toll in that country to 23,015 after every structure along the southern coast was damaged or swept away. More than 4,000 are missing,
The number of deaths from CNN sources in all affected countries now stands at 80,427.
Other nations are continuing to report more casualties from the killer waves, spawned by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck off the western-most portion of the northern Indonesian island of Sumatra.
UNICEF director Carol Bellamy said as many as one-third of the victims may be children, because children are "the least able to withstand the flooding or holding on."
In India, the government news agency said at least 10,000 Indians were killed and more bodies were being recovered.
Along India's southeastern coast, thousands of fishermen who were at sea when the waves thundered ashore have not returned.
In Tamil Nadu state, sources said 7,000 people were dead, and estimates put the death toll at 3,000 on the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands, where dozens of aftershocks were centered. (Full story)
In Thailand, officials confirmed 1,830 deaths, most of them are believed to have been in the low-lying coastal province of Phang Na.
The country's health ministry said for every Thai resident killed in the disaster, two tourists perished.
Nordic countries dispatched search teams and made public appeals for help to find some 2,700 Swedes, Danes, Finns and Norwegians missing in south Asia. (Full story)
While Thai officials fear hundreds of tourists may have died, so far at least 64 deaths have been confirmed. Hospital workers and witnesses report hundreds of bodies washing in from the sea.
On the resort island of Phuket, officials have set up a bulletin board of photographs at city hall as well as a Web site to help families and friends find one another.
Some of Thailand's smaller vacation islands were completely swallowed by the water, said Foreign Minister Surakiart Sathirathai.
Khun Poom Jensen, the 21-year-old autistic grandson of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, was among those killed.
In all, at least 11 countries -- including Myanmar, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Tanzania -- were affected by the monstrous waves.
With the death count rising, the scale of the devastation is overwhelming.
"I've not experienced anything like this in my 30 years in the relief and emergency business," said Scott Faiia, CARE's country director for Sri Lanka.
Ronen Sen, India's ambassador to the United States, told CNN that this disaster is "of a magnitude which we have not witnessed earlier."
In Sri Lanka, a spokesman for President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, said the death and destruction was causing "a huge situation."
"There are instances where bodies are decomposing, and they're being photographed and fingerprinted" before being taken to mass graves, said Harim Peiris."
"And there are instances where entire families have been wiped out."
There is also concern over disease from corpses, forcing health officials in Sri Lanka to order mass burials before the bodies have been identified by family members.
As the enormous impact of the disaster takes hold, one of the world's largest relief efforts is gaining momentum. Countries and aid organizations around the world are making donations of funding, supplies and personnel to the ravaged areas. (Full story)
International health and relief organizations have emphasized that getting clean water to survivors is an absolute priority, and they warn of threat of typhoid, malaria and cholera. (Full story)
"The fundamental need at the moment is to look after the well-being of living people and to make sure that they have what they need for life," David Nabarro, of the World Health Organization, told CNN.
"And the requirement to properly dispose of dead people through burial or some other method in a way that is appropriate for the local tradition is certainly there. But it's not urgent from the point of view of public health."
The United States is offering a total of $35 million, followed by Japan with $30 million. Australia has now pledged $27 million, Saudi Arabia $10 million and Germany $2.7 million. (List of aid agencies)
A number of other countries also are reportedly planning to participate in the relief effort.
Meanwhile, relief workers and supplies have started to arrive in Indonesia's Aceh province.
UNICEF's John Budd told CNN his agency was sending 200,000 emergency kits to Aceh, but more was needed. "Six to eight weeks of emergency funding -- tens of millions in Aceh to keep them alive -- and then long term to rebuild infrastructure," he said.
Complicating the relief efforts in Aceh is an armed separatist movement that has kept the region off-limits to aid groups and journalists for years. The Indonesian government, however, eased those restrictions under the circumstances.
In Sri Lanka, international aid convoys arrived Wednesday in Galle on the southwest corner of the island, bringing drinking water and other aid to residents.
On the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands, east of India, communications lines have been cut and supplies will not be easy to deliver, CNN's Mallika Kapur reported from Port Blair, the Andaman capital. (Full story)
Officials just reaching hardest hit areas in Indonesia
Wednesday, December 29, 2004 Posted: 2:04 PM EST (1904 GMT)
Pyres of victims killed by tsunamis burn on a beach in the southern Indian state of Kerala, Wednesday.
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (CNN) -- The latest death toll from the Asian tsunami has increased to more than 80,000 as relief workers and supplies begin to reach some of the most devastated areas.
That number could top 100,000 by the time all bodies are recovered, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said Wednesday.
The dramatic rise of the death toll came after officials were finally able to reach remote regions -- like Indonesia's Aceh province, India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands and the Maldives.
More than half of the total deaths so far were in Indonesia, the nearest land mass to Sunday's undersea earthquake that triggered the deadly waves and flooding in about a dozen countries, from Thailand to East Africa.
The United Nations' Jan Egeland said one in every four people in some parts of Aceh had been killed.
He also said about $220 million in cash donations had been received or pledged so far for the relief effort and "perhaps and equal amount of funds in in-kind donations" such as military and civil defense aid.
Four days after the quake, Indonesian authorities said they had found mass destruction in Aceh. CNN's Mike Chinoy said the capital of Banda Aceh, which was closest to the epicenter of the quake, was largely destroyed.
Indonesia's Health Ministry confirmed Wednesday that the country's death toll had risen to 45,268, with another 1,240 people still missing.
In Sri Lanka, authorities increased the death toll in that country to 23,015 after every structure along the southern coast was damaged or swept away. More than 4,000 are missing,
The number of deaths from CNN sources in all affected countries now stands at 80,427.
Other nations are continuing to report more casualties from the killer waves, spawned by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck off the western-most portion of the northern Indonesian island of Sumatra.
UNICEF director Carol Bellamy said as many as one-third of the victims may be children, because children are "the least able to withstand the flooding or holding on."
In India, the government news agency said at least 10,000 Indians were killed and more bodies were being recovered.
Along India's southeastern coast, thousands of fishermen who were at sea when the waves thundered ashore have not returned.
In Tamil Nadu state, sources said 7,000 people were dead, and estimates put the death toll at 3,000 on the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands, where dozens of aftershocks were centered. (Full story)
In Thailand, officials confirmed 1,830 deaths, most of them are believed to have been in the low-lying coastal province of Phang Na.
The country's health ministry said for every Thai resident killed in the disaster, two tourists perished.
Nordic countries dispatched search teams and made public appeals for help to find some 2,700 Swedes, Danes, Finns and Norwegians missing in south Asia. (Full story)
While Thai officials fear hundreds of tourists may have died, so far at least 64 deaths have been confirmed. Hospital workers and witnesses report hundreds of bodies washing in from the sea.
On the resort island of Phuket, officials have set up a bulletin board of photographs at city hall as well as a Web site to help families and friends find one another.
Some of Thailand's smaller vacation islands were completely swallowed by the water, said Foreign Minister Surakiart Sathirathai.
Khun Poom Jensen, the 21-year-old autistic grandson of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, was among those killed.
In all, at least 11 countries -- including Myanmar, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Tanzania -- were affected by the monstrous waves.
With the death count rising, the scale of the devastation is overwhelming.
"I've not experienced anything like this in my 30 years in the relief and emergency business," said Scott Faiia, CARE's country director for Sri Lanka.
Ronen Sen, India's ambassador to the United States, told CNN that this disaster is "of a magnitude which we have not witnessed earlier."
In Sri Lanka, a spokesman for President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, said the death and destruction was causing "a huge situation."
"There are instances where bodies are decomposing, and they're being photographed and fingerprinted" before being taken to mass graves, said Harim Peiris."
"And there are instances where entire families have been wiped out."
There is also concern over disease from corpses, forcing health officials in Sri Lanka to order mass burials before the bodies have been identified by family members.
As the enormous impact of the disaster takes hold, one of the world's largest relief efforts is gaining momentum. Countries and aid organizations around the world are making donations of funding, supplies and personnel to the ravaged areas. (Full story)
International health and relief organizations have emphasized that getting clean water to survivors is an absolute priority, and they warn of threat of typhoid, malaria and cholera. (Full story)
"The fundamental need at the moment is to look after the well-being of living people and to make sure that they have what they need for life," David Nabarro, of the World Health Organization, told CNN.
"And the requirement to properly dispose of dead people through burial or some other method in a way that is appropriate for the local tradition is certainly there. But it's not urgent from the point of view of public health."
The United States is offering a total of $35 million, followed by Japan with $30 million. Australia has now pledged $27 million, Saudi Arabia $10 million and Germany $2.7 million. (List of aid agencies)
A number of other countries also are reportedly planning to participate in the relief effort.
Meanwhile, relief workers and supplies have started to arrive in Indonesia's Aceh province.
UNICEF's John Budd told CNN his agency was sending 200,000 emergency kits to Aceh, but more was needed. "Six to eight weeks of emergency funding -- tens of millions in Aceh to keep them alive -- and then long term to rebuild infrastructure," he said.
Complicating the relief efforts in Aceh is an armed separatist movement that has kept the region off-limits to aid groups and journalists for years. The Indonesian government, however, eased those restrictions under the circumstances.
In Sri Lanka, international aid convoys arrived Wednesday in Galle on the southwest corner of the island, bringing drinking water and other aid to residents.
On the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands, east of India, communications lines have been cut and supplies will not be easy to deliver, CNN's Mallika Kapur reported from Port Blair, the Andaman capital. (Full story)
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Matt-hurricanewatcher
Death toll reaches 100,000
By Andrew Gilligan In Colombo And Valentine Low In London, Evening Standard
29 December 2004
The death toll in the tsunami disaster soared past 100,000 today - and is set to climb higher.
The UN said there were now strong grounds to believe that the toll in the Sumatran province of Aceh, the worst affected area, would be as high as 80,000. The number dead has now climbed in every country affected, including:
Thailand: 1,700 confirmed dead, including 43 British tourists.
Indonesia: more than 42,000 confirmed dead.
India: nearly 7,000 dead, and many coastal areas including parts of Kerala still to be searched.
Sri Lanka: 22,500 are confirmed dead and there are fears for hundreds of independent British travellers on the east coast.
Aid agencies today warned disease will also cause massive casualties among the survivors as the biggest relief effort in history began.
The British toll climbed as a new alert was sounded over the number missing. Abta, the tours operators' association, said there were 100 Britons unaccounted for. There are no confirmed numbers for missing backpackers.
Today more dramatic accounts emerged as hundreds of Britons flew back to Heathrow from Thailand.
Businessman Neil Tennant, from Woodbridge, Suffolk, told how he and his family had to flee to the roof of their hotel in Khao Lak as a giant wave swamped the building.
He said: "We ran up to the roof from our room just a few seconds before the water swamped it. I have no doubt we would have been killed if we had stayed where we were."
Amy Davies, from Camden, who was staying at Ko Phi Phi in Thailand, arrived home still in her swimming costume. She said: "I saw a drowned child in the water below me."
First Choice said six of its 248 customers in Phuket were still unaccounted after Sunday's tsunami.
An official at the British embassy in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, today said the confirmed British death toll there stood at three.
First Choice had 584 holidaymakers in the Maldives. One died and all the others have been accounted for.
MyTravel said it had between 850 and 900 clients in the affected area. Most had been accounted for.
The vast majority of the 3,500 foreigners still unaccounted for in the disaster region are from Scandinavia. The missing include at least 1,500 Swedes, 800 Norwegians, 214 Danes and 200 Finns.
Families across Britain were today in mourning and hundreds waited helplessly for news of their loved ones. Film director Lord Attenborough was among those grieving after it was confirmed his granddaughter, Lucy, 14, was dead and his daughter, Jane Holland, 49, was missing, feared dead. Jane's mother-in-law, also called Jane Holland, was also missing in Phuket. The family, who live in London, have asked for privacy "at this terrible time".
The south-east Asian communities of London watched in horror as the tsunami destroyed the lives of their relatives. Moulana Mazahir, from Harrow, lost 50 close relatives when a wall of water destroyed his home town of Hambantotain southern Sri Lanka. The 45-year-old chef 's only solace is that his wife and three sons, who had been on holiday in the resort, escaped with their lives after leaving just three hours before disaster struck.
"My life will never be the same. It was a miracle my wife and sons are still alive - but they are terrified."
Mohammed Samsudena and his wife Nirusha, 29, also from Harrow, say they have lost 40 family members and are desperately trying to contact other relatives in Hambantota. The 36-year-old petrol station sales assistant said: "Yesterday morning we heard that the body of my sister-in-law, Fatima, had been found. She was only 18."
Relatives of London newlyweds Christopher and Gaynor Mullen, from Richmond, now fear the worst - last hearing from the couple on Christmas Day, when they simply said they were "on the beach" in Thailand.
Fashion photographer Simon Atlee, 33, from London, most famous for his photograph of Rugby World Cup hero Jonny Wilkinson in the Hackett advertisements, was also swept away in the tidal wave as his holiday bungalow in Khao Lak near Phuket was destroyed. His girlfriend, Czech model Petra Nemcova, 25, survived by clinging onto a palm tree.
Louise Willgrass, 43, from Colney, near Norwich, was washed away after she had got out of the rented car her family was travelling in to buy suncream at a Phuket supermarket.
The car, being driven by her husband Nigel and containing their four children, Emily, 16, Ben, 14, Michael, nine and Katie, six was overwhelmed by the tidal wave. Mr Willgrass managed to pull the children free and they survived by clinging to floating debris.
Conservation volunteer Lisa Jones, 31, is feared dead on the tiny Thai island of Koh Phra Thong, where she had been helping research sea turtles
By Andrew Gilligan In Colombo And Valentine Low In London, Evening Standard
29 December 2004
The death toll in the tsunami disaster soared past 100,000 today - and is set to climb higher.
The UN said there were now strong grounds to believe that the toll in the Sumatran province of Aceh, the worst affected area, would be as high as 80,000. The number dead has now climbed in every country affected, including:
Thailand: 1,700 confirmed dead, including 43 British tourists.
Indonesia: more than 42,000 confirmed dead.
India: nearly 7,000 dead, and many coastal areas including parts of Kerala still to be searched.
Sri Lanka: 22,500 are confirmed dead and there are fears for hundreds of independent British travellers on the east coast.
Aid agencies today warned disease will also cause massive casualties among the survivors as the biggest relief effort in history began.
The British toll climbed as a new alert was sounded over the number missing. Abta, the tours operators' association, said there were 100 Britons unaccounted for. There are no confirmed numbers for missing backpackers.
Today more dramatic accounts emerged as hundreds of Britons flew back to Heathrow from Thailand.
Businessman Neil Tennant, from Woodbridge, Suffolk, told how he and his family had to flee to the roof of their hotel in Khao Lak as a giant wave swamped the building.
He said: "We ran up to the roof from our room just a few seconds before the water swamped it. I have no doubt we would have been killed if we had stayed where we were."
Amy Davies, from Camden, who was staying at Ko Phi Phi in Thailand, arrived home still in her swimming costume. She said: "I saw a drowned child in the water below me."
First Choice said six of its 248 customers in Phuket were still unaccounted after Sunday's tsunami.
An official at the British embassy in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, today said the confirmed British death toll there stood at three.
First Choice had 584 holidaymakers in the Maldives. One died and all the others have been accounted for.
MyTravel said it had between 850 and 900 clients in the affected area. Most had been accounted for.
The vast majority of the 3,500 foreigners still unaccounted for in the disaster region are from Scandinavia. The missing include at least 1,500 Swedes, 800 Norwegians, 214 Danes and 200 Finns.
Families across Britain were today in mourning and hundreds waited helplessly for news of their loved ones. Film director Lord Attenborough was among those grieving after it was confirmed his granddaughter, Lucy, 14, was dead and his daughter, Jane Holland, 49, was missing, feared dead. Jane's mother-in-law, also called Jane Holland, was also missing in Phuket. The family, who live in London, have asked for privacy "at this terrible time".
The south-east Asian communities of London watched in horror as the tsunami destroyed the lives of their relatives. Moulana Mazahir, from Harrow, lost 50 close relatives when a wall of water destroyed his home town of Hambantotain southern Sri Lanka. The 45-year-old chef 's only solace is that his wife and three sons, who had been on holiday in the resort, escaped with their lives after leaving just three hours before disaster struck.
"My life will never be the same. It was a miracle my wife and sons are still alive - but they are terrified."
Mohammed Samsudena and his wife Nirusha, 29, also from Harrow, say they have lost 40 family members and are desperately trying to contact other relatives in Hambantota. The 36-year-old petrol station sales assistant said: "Yesterday morning we heard that the body of my sister-in-law, Fatima, had been found. She was only 18."
Relatives of London newlyweds Christopher and Gaynor Mullen, from Richmond, now fear the worst - last hearing from the couple on Christmas Day, when they simply said they were "on the beach" in Thailand.
Fashion photographer Simon Atlee, 33, from London, most famous for his photograph of Rugby World Cup hero Jonny Wilkinson in the Hackett advertisements, was also swept away in the tidal wave as his holiday bungalow in Khao Lak near Phuket was destroyed. His girlfriend, Czech model Petra Nemcova, 25, survived by clinging onto a palm tree.
Louise Willgrass, 43, from Colney, near Norwich, was washed away after she had got out of the rented car her family was travelling in to buy suncream at a Phuket supermarket.
The car, being driven by her husband Nigel and containing their four children, Emily, 16, Ben, 14, Michael, nine and Katie, six was overwhelmed by the tidal wave. Mr Willgrass managed to pull the children free and they survived by clinging to floating debris.
Conservation volunteer Lisa Jones, 31, is feared dead on the tiny Thai island of Koh Phra Thong, where she had been helping research sea turtles
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Matt-hurricanewatcher
Aceh death toll could reach 80,000
Mark Tran and agencies
Wednesday December 29, 2004
The final death toll in the Indonesian province of Aceh, which bore the brunt of the Indian Ocean tsunami, could be as high as 80,000, a UN official said today.
"I would say we are probably talking about somewhere in the order of 80,000 people - 50,000 to 80,000 people, that would be my educated guess," Michael Elmquist, the head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for Indonesia, told reporters.
He said 40,000 people may have lost their lives in the coastal town of Meulaboh alone. The latest official government estimate of the death toll for the whole of Indonesia is 45,268.
Mark Tran and agencies
Wednesday December 29, 2004
The final death toll in the Indonesian province of Aceh, which bore the brunt of the Indian Ocean tsunami, could be as high as 80,000, a UN official said today.
"I would say we are probably talking about somewhere in the order of 80,000 people - 50,000 to 80,000 people, that would be my educated guess," Michael Elmquist, the head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for Indonesia, told reporters.
He said 40,000 people may have lost their lives in the coastal town of Meulaboh alone. The latest official government estimate of the death toll for the whole of Indonesia is 45,268.
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And futher down in the article some BAD NEWS:
Tsunami Death Toll Soars to Near 77,000
By CHRIS BRUMMITT, Associated Press Writer
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - As the world scrambled to the rescue, survivors fought over packs of noodles in quake-stricken Indonesian streets Wednesday while relief supplies piled up at the airport for lack of cars, gas or passable roads to move them. The official death toll across 12 countries soared to near 77,000 and the Red Cross predicted it could pass 100,000.
Bodies were piled into mass graves to ward off disease. Paramedics in southern India began vaccinating thousands of survivors against cholera, typhoid, hepatitis A and dysentery, and authorities sprayed bleaching powder on beaches where bodies have been recovered. In Sri Lanka, reports of waterborne disease such as diarrhea caused fears of an epidemic.
President Bush (news - web sites) announced the United States, India, Australia and Japan have formed an international coalition to coordinate relief and reconstruction of the 3,000 miles of Indian Ocean rim walloped by Sunday's earthquake and the tsunami it unleashed.
"We're facing a disaster of unprecedented proportion in nature," said Simon Missiri, a top Red Cross official. "We're talking about a staggering death toll."
On hundreds of Web sites, the messages were brief but poignant: "Missing: Christina Blomee in Khao Lak," or simply, "Where are you?" All conveyed the aching desperation of people the world over whose friends and family went off in search of holiday-season sun and sand and haven't been heard from for four days.
But even as hope for the missing dwindled, survivors continued to turn up Wednesday. In Sri Lanka, where more than 22,000 died, a lone fisherman named Sini Mohammed Sarfudeen was rescued by an air force helicopter crew after clinging to his wave-tossed boat for three days.
Indian air force planes evacuated thousands of survivors from the remote island of Car Nicobar. Some of them had walked for days from their destroyed villages to reach a devastated but functioning airfield, where they were shuttled out 80 to 90 at a time.
Journalists were not allowed to leave the base to verify reports that some 8,000 people were dead there, but at the base alone, 67 officers and their families were missing and feared dead.
India's death toll rose to nearly 7,000, while Indonesia's stood at 45,268, but authorities said this did not include a full count from Sumatra's west coast, where more than 10,000 deaths were suspected in one town alone.
And futher down in the article some BAD NEWS:
The State Department said 12 Americans died in the disaster — seven in Sri Lanka and five in Thailand. About 2,000 to 3,000 Americans were unaccounted for.
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Matt-hurricanewatcher
http://weldion.org/~beeplus/temp/ruumiita4ft.jpg
This is so sad
There has to be hundreds of dead bodies in this pick.
These picks bring it home(Some of them will make you sick)
Aceh
http://www.repubblica.it/2003/e/gallerie/esteri/aceh/1.html
Sri Lanka
http://www.repubblica.it/2003/e/gallerie/esteri/srilankadue/1.html
Burn dead bodies
http://www.repubblica.it/2003/e/gallerie/esteri/merc29/1.html
From satellite
http://www.repubblica.it/2003/e/gallerie/esteri/satel/1.html
Khao Lak
http://www.repubblica.it/2003/e/gallerie/esteri/khaolak/1.html
Various
http://www.corriere.it/av/galleria.html?2004/dicembre/terremoto&1
http://www.repubblica.it/2003/e/galleri ... ceh/3.html
This is so sad
There has to be hundreds of dead bodies in this pick.
These picks bring it home(Some of them will make you sick)
Aceh
http://www.repubblica.it/2003/e/gallerie/esteri/aceh/1.html
Sri Lanka
http://www.repubblica.it/2003/e/gallerie/esteri/srilankadue/1.html
Burn dead bodies
http://www.repubblica.it/2003/e/gallerie/esteri/merc29/1.html
From satellite
http://www.repubblica.it/2003/e/gallerie/esteri/satel/1.html
Khao Lak
http://www.repubblica.it/2003/e/gallerie/esteri/khaolak/1.html
Various
http://www.corriere.it/av/galleria.html?2004/dicembre/terremoto&1
http://www.repubblica.it/2003/e/galleri ... ceh/3.html
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Matt-hurricanewatcher
This Tsunami is the deadiest ever!!!
Deadly Tsunamis Rivals Waves of the Past
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
WASHINGTON (AP) - The tsunamis that claimed thousands of lives across the Indian Ocean are the deadliest great waves in more than a century and probably in modern history.
More than 36,000 people were killed by tsunamis following the explosion of the volcano Krakatau in the Sunda Strait near Java on Aug. 27, 1883. Many estimates of the number killed in that disaster were even higher.
The toll from Sunday's tsunamis has now topped 58,000 deaths in 11 nations.
Following the 1883 eruption, waves estimated as high as 90 feet slammed ashore on nearby islands, wiping out coastal communities in what is now Indonesia. They had been the deadliest tsunamis of modern times until now.
The earliest description of a tsunami-type wave comes from 479 B.C. in the northern part of the Aegean Sea. Similar waves have been reported worldwide, though they are more common in the Pacific, with its earthquake-prone perimeter.
Many historians believe the explosive eruption of Santorini in the Aegean Sea in 1500 B.C. caused a tsunami that brought widespread devastation to the eastern Mediterranean and Crete.
Thousands of coastal residents in Spain, Portugal and North Africa were killed by waves spawned by an earthquake at Lisbon, Portugal, in 1755.
Over the centuries, Japan has been the land most plagued by tsunamis, with at least 66,000 deaths recorded there since A.D. 684.
Among the deadliest tsunamis was one that struck Honshu, Japan, in 1896, killing an estimated 27,000.
Many coastal residents were in the streets celebrating a holiday when the wave struck. The next day, fishermen returning home found a scene of devastation, strewn with bodies and ruined homes for miles.
Indonesia has seen more than 50,000 deaths in more than 30 destructive tsunamis over the centuries - not including the most recent disaster.
On April 1, 1946, a Pacific-wide tsunami was generated by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake near Unimak Island in Alaska's Aleutian Island chain.
A huge wave destroyed the U.S. Coast Guard's Scotch Cap lighthouse on Unimak, killing all five of its occupants. The lighthouse was a steel-reinforced concrete structure standing about 90 feet above sea level.
That tsunami reached the Hawaiian Islands about five hours later, obliterating Hilo's waterfront and killing 159 people.
Altogether, 165 people died, including children attending school at Hawaii's Laupahoehoe Point, where waves reaching up to 25 feet struck.
As a result of this wave, two years later the United States established a Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii.
Other notable tsunamis have included:
Aug. 16, 1976: A tsunami generated by a quake on Mindinao in the Philippines killed between 5,000 and 8,000 people in the Moro Gulf region.
March 28, 1964: A magnitude 8.4 quake in Alaska generated tsunamis that caused damage in southeastern Alaska, in Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and in the states of Washington, California and Hawaii. More than 120 died. Hardest hit was Crescent City, Calif., where waves reaching as much as 20 feet destroyed half of the waterfront business district. Eleven people lost their lives there. There was extensive damage in San Francisco Bay and at the marinas in Marin County and at the Noyo, Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors.
May 22, 1960: The largest earthquake - magnitude 8.6 - of the 20th century occurred off the coast of south central Chile. It generated a Pacific-wide tsunami, which was destructive locally in Chile and throughout the Pacific Ocean. The tsunami killed an estimated 2,300 people in Chile. Waves damaged the waterfront in Hilo, Hawaii, and killed 61 people.
Nov. 4, 1952: A strong earthquake off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula generated a great, destructive Pacific-wide tsunami. Its waves struck the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Kuril Islands and other areas of Russia's Far East, causing considerable damage and loss of life. There was also damage in Hawaii, Peru and Chile.
Jan. 31, 1906: A strong tsunami struck the coast of Ecuador and Colombia, submerging half of Tumaco, Colombia, and washing away half of a nearby island. The death toll has been estimated at between 500 and 1,500.
Aug. 13, 1868: A massive wave struck Chile, carrying ships as far as three miles inland at Arica. Deaths totaled 25,000 or more.
April 2, 1868: A locally generated tsunami swept over the tops of palm trees and claimed 81 lives in Hawaii.
Deadly Tsunamis Rivals Waves of the Past
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
WASHINGTON (AP) - The tsunamis that claimed thousands of lives across the Indian Ocean are the deadliest great waves in more than a century and probably in modern history.
More than 36,000 people were killed by tsunamis following the explosion of the volcano Krakatau in the Sunda Strait near Java on Aug. 27, 1883. Many estimates of the number killed in that disaster were even higher.
The toll from Sunday's tsunamis has now topped 58,000 deaths in 11 nations.
Following the 1883 eruption, waves estimated as high as 90 feet slammed ashore on nearby islands, wiping out coastal communities in what is now Indonesia. They had been the deadliest tsunamis of modern times until now.
The earliest description of a tsunami-type wave comes from 479 B.C. in the northern part of the Aegean Sea. Similar waves have been reported worldwide, though they are more common in the Pacific, with its earthquake-prone perimeter.
Many historians believe the explosive eruption of Santorini in the Aegean Sea in 1500 B.C. caused a tsunami that brought widespread devastation to the eastern Mediterranean and Crete.
Thousands of coastal residents in Spain, Portugal and North Africa were killed by waves spawned by an earthquake at Lisbon, Portugal, in 1755.
Over the centuries, Japan has been the land most plagued by tsunamis, with at least 66,000 deaths recorded there since A.D. 684.
Among the deadliest tsunamis was one that struck Honshu, Japan, in 1896, killing an estimated 27,000.
Many coastal residents were in the streets celebrating a holiday when the wave struck. The next day, fishermen returning home found a scene of devastation, strewn with bodies and ruined homes for miles.
Indonesia has seen more than 50,000 deaths in more than 30 destructive tsunamis over the centuries - not including the most recent disaster.
On April 1, 1946, a Pacific-wide tsunami was generated by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake near Unimak Island in Alaska's Aleutian Island chain.
A huge wave destroyed the U.S. Coast Guard's Scotch Cap lighthouse on Unimak, killing all five of its occupants. The lighthouse was a steel-reinforced concrete structure standing about 90 feet above sea level.
That tsunami reached the Hawaiian Islands about five hours later, obliterating Hilo's waterfront and killing 159 people.
Altogether, 165 people died, including children attending school at Hawaii's Laupahoehoe Point, where waves reaching up to 25 feet struck.
As a result of this wave, two years later the United States established a Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii.
Other notable tsunamis have included:
Aug. 16, 1976: A tsunami generated by a quake on Mindinao in the Philippines killed between 5,000 and 8,000 people in the Moro Gulf region.
March 28, 1964: A magnitude 8.4 quake in Alaska generated tsunamis that caused damage in southeastern Alaska, in Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and in the states of Washington, California and Hawaii. More than 120 died. Hardest hit was Crescent City, Calif., where waves reaching as much as 20 feet destroyed half of the waterfront business district. Eleven people lost their lives there. There was extensive damage in San Francisco Bay and at the marinas in Marin County and at the Noyo, Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors.
May 22, 1960: The largest earthquake - magnitude 8.6 - of the 20th century occurred off the coast of south central Chile. It generated a Pacific-wide tsunami, which was destructive locally in Chile and throughout the Pacific Ocean. The tsunami killed an estimated 2,300 people in Chile. Waves damaged the waterfront in Hilo, Hawaii, and killed 61 people.
Nov. 4, 1952: A strong earthquake off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula generated a great, destructive Pacific-wide tsunami. Its waves struck the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Kuril Islands and other areas of Russia's Far East, causing considerable damage and loss of life. There was also damage in Hawaii, Peru and Chile.
Jan. 31, 1906: A strong tsunami struck the coast of Ecuador and Colombia, submerging half of Tumaco, Colombia, and washing away half of a nearby island. The death toll has been estimated at between 500 and 1,500.
Aug. 13, 1868: A massive wave struck Chile, carrying ships as far as three miles inland at Arica. Deaths totaled 25,000 or more.
April 2, 1868: A locally generated tsunami swept over the tops of palm trees and claimed 81 lives in Hawaii.
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India's Tamil Nadu State Issues Tsunami Alert
Thu Dec 30, 2004 01:13 AM ET
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The state government in India's Tamil Nadu state, which bore the brunt of the Indian Ocean tsunami, on Thursday issued a tsunami alert and warned people to leave coastal areas.
Police said aftershocks in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, near the center of the huge earthquake that caused Sunday's tsunami, were "likely" to cause high waves.
Witnesses said police sirens were blaring on beaches in Tamil Nadu and residents were running away.
Thu Dec 30, 2004 01:13 AM ET
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The state government in India's Tamil Nadu state, which bore the brunt of the Indian Ocean tsunami, on Thursday issued a tsunami alert and warned people to leave coastal areas.
Police said aftershocks in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, near the center of the huge earthquake that caused Sunday's tsunami, were "likely" to cause high waves.
Witnesses said police sirens were blaring on beaches in Tamil Nadu and residents were running away.
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Matt-hurricanewatcher wrote:India's Tamil Nadu State Issues Tsunami Alert
Thu Dec 30, 2004 01:13 AM ET
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The state government in India's Tamil Nadu state, which bore the brunt of the Indian Ocean tsunami, on Thursday issued a tsunami alert and warned people to leave coastal areas.
Police said aftershocks in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, near the center of the huge earthquake that caused Sunday's tsunami, were "likely" to cause high waves.
Witnesses said police sirens were blaring on beaches in Tamil Nadu and residents were running away.
Well that cannot be good...
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'TOLL COULD HIT 100,000'
More than 85,000 people have now been confirmed dead across south Asia following Sunday's tidal wave disaster.
See Sky News and Sky News Active for the latest footage.
Both the UN and Red Cross are warning the final figure will probably be in excess of 100,000.
The World Health Organisation has warned an outbreak of disease, caused by rotting bodies, could double the death toll from its current level.
More than 45,000 people have been declared dead in Indonesia alone - the worst-hit country. But the United Nations has warned that the total could hit 80,000.
Sri Lanka says at least 22,500 people were killed there.
Thailand says the number of dead could be 6,000. It increased its death toll overnight to 1,975 but said many of the thousands missing are likely to be dead.
An estimated five million people need aid across the southern Asia region.Supplies are getting through but much more is needed, say disaster agencies.
President Bush and Tony Blair have both commented on the tragedy, three days after the giant waves struck.
President Bush insisted comments that the US was being "stingy" on the amount of aid offered were "ill-formed".
Dozens of countries have promised millions of pounds but aid agencies say billions are needed.
Britain has pledged £15m, the US £18m.
The Disasters Emergency Committee, representing Britain's leading charities, said it had raised £5m in 24 hours.
The first supplies have been getting through to the areas hit hardest.
The disaster was caused by an underwater earthquake off Sumatra measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale. It triggered the huge tidal waves known as a tsunamis.
India has said it will set up an early warning system for future tsunamis.
More than 85,000 people have now been confirmed dead across south Asia following Sunday's tidal wave disaster.
See Sky News and Sky News Active for the latest footage.
Both the UN and Red Cross are warning the final figure will probably be in excess of 100,000.
The World Health Organisation has warned an outbreak of disease, caused by rotting bodies, could double the death toll from its current level.
More than 45,000 people have been declared dead in Indonesia alone - the worst-hit country. But the United Nations has warned that the total could hit 80,000.
Sri Lanka says at least 22,500 people were killed there.
Thailand says the number of dead could be 6,000. It increased its death toll overnight to 1,975 but said many of the thousands missing are likely to be dead.
An estimated five million people need aid across the southern Asia region.Supplies are getting through but much more is needed, say disaster agencies.
President Bush and Tony Blair have both commented on the tragedy, three days after the giant waves struck.
President Bush insisted comments that the US was being "stingy" on the amount of aid offered were "ill-formed".
Dozens of countries have promised millions of pounds but aid agencies say billions are needed.
Britain has pledged £15m, the US £18m.
The Disasters Emergency Committee, representing Britain's leading charities, said it had raised £5m in 24 hours.
The first supplies have been getting through to the areas hit hardest.
The disaster was caused by an underwater earthquake off Sumatra measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale. It triggered the 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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Thousands Of Bodies Rotting In Southern Aceh's West Beaches
MEDAN, Dec 30 (Bernama) - Thousands of dead bodies in West Aceh, Nagan Raya and Aceh Jaya districts hit by last Sunday's devastating earthquake and giant tidal waves have begun decomposing, and office buildings and houses had been completely wiped out, Antara news agency reported Thursday.
It quoted Muadz Syohri, deputy head of the Singkil administration as saying on Wednesday night that many dead bodies were found scattered on beaches of the province's western districts.
"The dead bodies have begun decomposing and we fear a possible epidemic may affect survivors," he said.
He said he had visited the districts to check on the impact of the natural disaster.
-- BERNAMA
MEDAN, Dec 30 (Bernama) - Thousands of dead bodies in West Aceh, Nagan Raya and Aceh Jaya districts hit by last Sunday's devastating earthquake and giant tidal waves have begun decomposing, and office buildings and houses had been completely wiped out, Antara news agency reported Thursday.
It quoted Muadz Syohri, deputy head of the Singkil administration as saying on Wednesday night that many dead bodies were found scattered on beaches of the province's western districts.
"The dead bodies have begun decomposing and we fear a possible epidemic may affect survivors," he said.
He said he had visited the districts to check on the impact of the natural disaster.
-- BERNAMA
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Dec 30, 2004 12:56
ACEH, N SUMATRA DEATH TOLL SURPASSES GOVT`S ESTIMATE OF 40,000
Jakarta, Dec 30 (ANTARA) - The death toll in the powerful tectonic earthquake and tsunami that hit Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam and North Sumatra last Sunday (Dec 26) has reached 45,268, exceeding the estimate of 40,000 made by the government on Wednesday.
According to a statement issued by the media centre of the office of the Coordinating Minister for People`s Welfare and the Ministry of Health on Thursday, some 1,240 people have remained missing and the other 2,093 were still being treated at some local hospitals.
The highest death toll (15,000) was recorded in Aceh Jaya district followed by Banda Aceh (9,023), Aceh Besar district (9,000) and Meulaboh (3,400).
ACEH, N SUMATRA DEATH TOLL SURPASSES GOVT`S ESTIMATE OF 40,000
Jakarta, Dec 30 (ANTARA) - The death toll in the powerful tectonic earthquake and tsunami that hit Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam and North Sumatra last Sunday (Dec 26) has reached 45,268, exceeding the estimate of 40,000 made by the government on Wednesday.
According to a statement issued by the media centre of the office of the Coordinating Minister for People`s Welfare and the Ministry of Health on Thursday, some 1,240 people have remained missing and the other 2,093 were still being treated at some local hospitals.
The highest death toll (15,000) was recorded in Aceh Jaya district followed by Banda Aceh (9,023), Aceh Besar district (9,000) and Meulaboh (3,400).
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