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#241 Postby Brent » Thu Dec 30, 2004 6:09 pm

Banda Aceh, Indonesia:

First picture is before, second is after:

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#242 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Thu Dec 30, 2004 8:55 pm

That doe's not look good!!! :eek:
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#243 Postby stormraiser » Thu Dec 30, 2004 9:23 pm

Latest word is that some of these countries are way underestimating their numbers.
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#244 Postby Gorky » Thu Dec 30, 2004 9:45 pm

The numbers reported are just the number of bodies recovered so far. In the bbc broadcast this evening, they showed a picture of one area in banda aceh which they had cleared of bodies the day before. Almost 1000 more had washed up over night. There was just a mass of debris with about 100 bodies entangled in it, the camera pans up and there are dozens of similar masses of debris as far as the eye could see. God knows what the final toll will be in indonesia alone. :(
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#245 Postby Brent » Thu Dec 30, 2004 10:15 pm

That 400,000 doesn't seem so unbelievable now. I just cannot fathom those numbers. I had a hard time swallowing the fact that 3,000 were killed on 9/11(I know, that was man-made, this was nature), but still, it's just as tragic. :(
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#246 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Thu Dec 30, 2004 11:52 pm

I added up all the deaths so far....As of the information I got right now it is 125,789 total deaths...I heard about beaches with thounsonds of dead bodies being cleaned up. Then the next day the ocean brings thounsands of bodies the next day on shore. It is like hell on earth these reports...
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#247 Postby mobilebay » Thu Dec 30, 2004 11:53 pm

Brent wrote:That 400,000 doesn't seem so unbelievable now. I just cannot fathom those numbers. I had a hard time swallowing the fact that 3,000 were killed on 9/11(I know, that was man-made, this was nature), but still, it's just as tragic. :(

Yes . I believe the numbers are WAY under the actual total. This just breaks my heart. :cry: :cry:
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#248 Postby Brent » Thu Dec 30, 2004 11:58 pm

mobilebay wrote:
Brent wrote:That 400,000 doesn't seem so unbelievable now. I just cannot fathom those numbers. I had a hard time swallowing the fact that 3,000 were killed on 9/11(I know, that was man-made, this was nature), but still, it's just as tragic. :(

Yes . I believe the numbers are WAY under the actual total. This just breaks my heart. :cry: :cry:


What's worse is you feel so helpless seeing pictures of the missing and forever changed on TV. :(
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#249 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Fri Dec 31, 2004 4:33 am

Tsunami death toll tops 134,000
World Bank will release $250 million
Friday, December 31, 2004 Posted: 3:52 AM EST (0852 GMT)


Tsunami victims sit at a relief camp in Port Blair, in India's southeastern Andaman and Nicobar islands.


BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (CNN) -- The death toll from Sunday's tsunamis has jumped to more than 134,000 after Sri Lankan officials and Tamil Tiger rebel officials combined their tallies, which now stands at 40,389.

CNN correspondent Stan Grant reports Tamil rebel officials estimate 14,000 people were killed and 6,000 are missing in rebel-controlled areas in the north and east.

The Sri Lankan government is counting 26,389 deaths.

In Sri Lanka's non-rebel areas, 4,832 are missing and most likely dead, 12,482 are injured, and 888,035 are without homes.

At least 10,000 were killed in India, the country's official state media said.

In Thailand, more than 4,000 are feared dead and dozens of deaths are reported in Malaysia, Myanmar, Maldives, Somalia and Tanzania.

Many who did survive are struggling to stay alive, and the World Health Organization estimates that five million people are without basic needs.

Emergency workers reported that in some parts of Aceh, Indonesia -- the region closest to the epicenter of the earthquake that spawned the killer tsunamis -- as many as one in every four citizens was dead.

Scenes of destruction were repeated across the region, as were the scenes of grief with residents and holidaymakers searching in vain for loved ones.

The events began just before 7 a.m. (midnight GMT Saturday) when a massive earthquake -- at magnitude 9.0, the strongest in the world since 1964 -- struck just 160 kilometers (100 miles) off Aceh's coast.

Indonesian-based British conservationist Mike Griffiths flew over the area and said it was "like a nuclear blast has leveled the area."

Between Meulaboh and Chalang, about 60 miles north, no villages are left, he said.

Calong, a town of 13,000, has "vaporized," he said.

"You couldn't even recognize there'd been a town there unless you'd flown over it before."

Dino Patti Djalal, spokesman for Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, said the Indonesian military's 30,000-strong force in the province was devastated.

Saying an unprecedented catastrophe requires an unprecedented response, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appealed for the international community to come together to help aid the areas ravaged by the tsunami.

Annan announced that the World Bank had added $250 million to the $250 million already pledged by the international community for the humanitarian effort, but more is needed.

The United Nations will send out an appeal for millions of dollars, and a donors conference is planned for January 11.

Several European nations said they were increasing their donations in response to Annan's appeal, including Britain which increased its pledge from $30 million to $95 million.

Canada has announced a debt moratorium for tsunami-affected countries, and other wealthy creditor nations are expected to follow suit.

A U.S. delegation headed by Secretary of State Colin Powell and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, brother of President George W. Bush, will travel to southern Asia on Sunday, a White House spokesman said.

John Budd, a spokesman in Indonesia for the U.N.'s children's fund UNICEF, said infrastructure damage in Aceh had made distributing aid especially difficult.

"UNICEF has an office which could have easily started, but that office has been wrecked," he said.

"It needs to be almost a military campaign," he said. "There needs to be airports set up. ... What we're looking at is re-establishing a social infrastructure in that country."

On Thursday, an Indonesian official said the death toll there had nearly doubled, from 45,000 to 79,940. (Full story)

Meanwhile, a low-pressure weather system settled over Medan on Sumatra, where the Aceh relief effort is based, forcing officials to close the airport and ground planes carrying aid to the hard-hit province.

A tsunami warning from Indian authorities on Thursday sent thousands of panicked coastal residents fleeing for higher ground. But the warning appeared to be a false alarm, after officials said it was meant as advice to be careful, not orders to evacuate. (Full story)

On the Indian coast, survivors wondered what they would do now that their homes have been flattened.

In Sri Lanka, survivors told CNN they were afraid and had lost hope after losing everything they owned and seeing members of their families swept out to sea.

WHO's David Nabarro said survivors were at risk of diarrhea, respiratory infections and insect-borne diseases that could result in "quite high rates of death," but he quickly added that the living are in more danger from other survivors than from the dead. (Full story)

Nabarro also said the mental health of the survivors is at risk. "Tremendous mental scarring" results from disasters like this one, he said.

There also were fears in Sri Lanka that plastic land mines could be uprooted by the floodwaters. (Full story)

Islands engulfed
Just before the towering waves washed over Sri Lanka, they swamped the vacation shores of Thailand, home to 40 percent of the country's $10 billion tourism industry.

Thai officials have confirmed more than 4,000 deaths, 1,000 of which are believed to have been in the low-lying coastal province of Phang Na.

Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Thursday that casualties in his country could reach 7,000.

Some of Thailand's smaller vacation islands were swallowed by the water, Thailand's Foreign Minister Surakiart Sathirathai said.

As far away as Somalia on Africa's east coast, reports trickled in of fishermen swept out to sea and swimmers lost. Jan Egeland, the United Nations' emergency relief coordinator, said entire villages were swept away in Somalia, and Kenya television reporter Lillian Odera said "hundreds" were killed there.

In all, at least 11 countries, including the Maldives, Myanmar, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Tanzania, were affected by the monstrous waves

Indonesia deaths likely more than 100,000-minister
31 Dec 2004 07:42:40 GMT

Source: Reuters

JAKARTA, Dec 31 (Reuters) - The death toll in Indonesia's devastated Aceh province from a quake and tsunami is likely to be above 100,000, the health minister said on Friday.

"The number of dead bodies may be more than 100,000," Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari told a news conference.

The official confirmed figure regularly updated by the ministry is currently unchanged at 79,940 dead.



To storm2k mods will you please change the heading to 134,000?
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#250 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Fri Dec 31, 2004 6:51 am

death toll rose to 135,263 (CNN)

I'm waiting for Indonesia to update.
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#251 Postby Brent » Fri Dec 31, 2004 10:28 am

More than 4,500 confirmed dead in Thailand, half of them foreigners
Published on Dec 31 , 2004

KHAO LAK, Thailand, Dec 31 (AFP) - More than 4,500 people -- almost half of them foreign holidaymakers -- were Friday confirmed dead in Thailand's tidal wave disaster and officials in the worst hit resort region said they expect to find hundreds more bodies later in the day.

The governor of Phang Nga province, which includes the devastated resort area of Khao Lak, said 2,027 foreigners and 1,662 Thais were confirmed dead there.

Interior ministry figures showed a total of 821 confirmed dead -- including 203 foreigners -- in the five other provinces on the Andaman Sea coast which were battered by huge waves last Sunday.

The combined data shows a total of 4,510 people including 2,230 foreigners confirmed killed in the whole country.

The ministry said 6,475 are missing nationwide and Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has said 80 per cent of these should be presumed dead.

Phang Nga governor Anuwat Maytheevibulwut told AFP rescuers were Friday expected to retrieve 300 more corpses in his province alone.

"We will try to complete the task today on land but I have no idea how many would be floating in the sea," Anuwat said.

At least 100 more bodies are expected to be removed Friday from the once-idyllic Phi Phi island, said deputy interior minister Sutham Sangprathum.

He said a candlelight New Year vigil would be held on the island -- one of many planned in a sombre nation which normally marks the occasion with frenzied merrymaking.

European nations were also grieving.

New Year's Day will be an official day of mourning in Sweden. Prime Minister Goeran Persson said Thursday that 44 Swedes are confirmed dead in Thailand but that number "is going to end up in the hundreds, in the worst-case scenario exceed 1,000."

Norway said Thursday that at least 21 Norwegians died and 430 were missing across the Indian Ocean region. "We are faced with an incomprehensible tragedy that is growing by the hour," said Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik.

French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said the same day that 19 French nationals died in Thailand and there was little hope for 90 who disappeared.

Britain warned nationals not to visit Thailand.

"Flooding, stagnant water, disruption of sewer lines, and poor quality sanitation conditions are conducive for the development of disease," the foreign office said.

In Ottawa, Thailand's ambassador Stanchart Devahastin pleaded for body bags, freezers, coffins and forensic experts to help store and identify decomposing corpses.

Thaksin, who has deployed 20,000 rescue workers, said the figure of those still missing is "very worrying."

He said the search of wrecked buildings had slowed, because of a shortage of heavy equipment and because some rescuers briefly fled Thursday due to a false alarm about more tsunamis.

Disposal of the masses of dead was posing a dilemma, with Western countries keen to preserve the remains for identification and Thai health officials favouring quick disposal in 33 degree Celsius (92 Fahrenheit) heat.

Refrigerated containers were in acutely short supply.

Thai officials and dozens of foreign forensic experts have now agreed that the bodies of foreigners will be collected at three sites in refrigerated containers pending an identification process which could take months, a French police source told AFP.

The bodies will be collected in Khao Lak, Phuket and Krabi province.

Photos and sometimes even fingerprints are useless in many cases because the corpses are so decomposed.

"As in all disasters, we are rushing afterwards. We have made progress but the disaster has also made progress," said one expert.
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#252 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Fri Dec 31, 2004 5:21 pm

U.N.: Death Toll Nears 150,000

Dec. 31, 2004


A boy reaches for food during relief distribution for tsunami victims at Nagappattinam, in the southern India state of Tamil Nadu. (Photo: AP)



"There is nothing to eat there. There is no water. In a couple of days, people will start dying of hunger."
Anup Ghatak
describing situation on Indian archipelago closed to foreigners


An unidentified Thai man sits near a blood stained destroyed truck on Koh Kho Khao, an island off the coast of southern Thailand. (Photo: AP)


A young girl, a tsunami victim from India's Campbell Bay Islands, eats from her mother's hands, at a relief camp in Port Blair, in India's southeastern Andaman and Nicobar Islands. (Photo: AP)



(CBS/AP) The death toll in the tsunami disaster is approaching 150,000, according to U.N. humanitarian chief Jan Egeland.

"What we see is that the figures may be approaching 150,000 dead. The vast majority of those are in Indonesia and Aceh, which is the least assessed area because of logistical constraints, and it may therefore raise further," Egeland told reporters Friday afternoon.

He added that the final number of dead will never be known.

"We will never ever have the absolute definite figure because there are many fishermen and villages which have just gone and we have no chance of finding out how many they were," he said.

Meanwhile, two U.S. aircraft carrier battle groups loaded with supplies headed for tsunami-ravaged coasts Friday and a military cargo jet brought aid to Indonesia, as a huge world relief drive to shelter, treat and feed millions of survivors kicked in.

But with help streaming in, overstretched authorities were dealing with the logistical nightmare of getting it to the needy. Tons of supplies were backlogged in Indonesia, with thousands of boxes filled with drinking water, crackers, blankets and other basic necessities piled high in an airplane hangar nearly 300 miles from Banda Aceh, the wrecked main city in the disaster zone.

Indonesia, the hardest hit nation, said its toll — now at 80,000 — could reach 100,000, and officials began to acknowledge that the number of dead may never be known with precision, because the towering waves that smashed into Sumatra island swept entire villages with their inhabitants out to sea.

The Bush administration announced Friday a tenfold increase in aid, to $350 million, for victims of the disaster. Secretary of State Colin Powell will also visit the region and assess what more the United States needs to do.

"Initial findings of American assessment teams on the ground indicate that the need for financial and other assistance will steadily increase in the days and weeks ahead," Mr. Bush said in a statement released in Crawford, Texas, where he is staying at his ranch.

On India's Andoman and Nicobar islands, survivors were desperate for food and water, with still little aid reaching them six days after the disaster. Foreigners are banned from the archipelago because of its large air force post, and India has not given permission for international aid groups to deliver help.

"There is nothing to eat there. There is no water. In a couple of days, people will start dying of hunger," said Anup Ghatak, a utilities contractor from Campbell Bay island, as he was being evacuated to Port Blair, capital of the archipelago.

Rescue workers in the archipelago believe thousands of uncounted bodies remain in the debris of crumbled homes, downed trees and mounds of dead animals on several islands. India has officially reported 7,763 dead in the tsunami disaster — most from the southern provinces of the mainland. The number does not include a complete count from the archipelago, where officials estimate as many as 10,000 people could be buried under mud and debris.

Forensic teams in Thailand packed bodies in dry ice as the government announced its death toll had doubled to more than 4,500 people, almost half of them foreigners who had been vacationing on the country's renowned white-sand beaches.

Sunday's 9.0 magnitude quake struck just off the coast of Sumatra, near the Indian archipelago, sending walls of water racing across the Indian Ocean and wiping out coasts in 11 nations.

After Indonesia, Sri Lanka was the next hardest hit, with about 28,500 deaths. A total of more than 300 were killed in Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, the Maldives, Somalia, Tanzania and Kenya.

The U.S. death toll was officially raised from 12 to 14, with seven dead in Thailand and seven in Sri Lanka. Some 600 Americans who were listed as missing have been found, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said, but several thousand had not been located four days after the disaster struck.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Thursday that nations had donated $500 million toward the relief effort, but more help was needed. Militaries from around the world geared up to help.

Nine U.S military C-130 transport craft took off Friday from Utapao, the one-time home of B-52 bombers striking targets in Indochina, to rush mostly medical supplies to the stricken resorts of southern Thailand and to more distant airfields in Indonesia and Sri Lanka, said Maj. Larry J. Redmon in Bangkok. One of the cargo jets arrived in Indonesia with blankets, medicine and the first of 80,000 body bags.

Two Navy groups of a dozen vessels — led by the aircraft carriers USS Bonhomme Richard and USS Abraham Lincoln — are headed for the coasts of Indonesia and Sri Lanka with supplies and — importantly — more than 40 helicopters to help ferry food and medicines into ravaged seaside communities.

New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Pakistan and scores of other nations also had planes in the air, rushing aid to victims. In Sumatra, pilots dropped food to villagers stranded among bloating corpses.

"Over the past few days it has registered deeply in the consciousness and conscience of the world as we seek to grasp the speed, the force and magnitude with which it happened. But we must also remain committed for the longer term," Annan said.

The United States, India, Australia, Japan and the United Nations have formed an international coalition to coordinate worldwide relief and reconstruction efforts. The Indian navy, which has already deployed 32 ships and 29 aircraft for tsunami relief and rescue work, was sending two more ships Friday to Indonesia.

Also, around the world, the Internet is making lending a hand to tsunami victims no harder than lifting a finger. CBS News Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports donations are pouring in twenty-four hours a day, outpacing public response to past disasters.

"The benefits of donating online are speed, direct access, cut down on administrative costs," one donor to tsunami victims, Frank Howard, told Attkisson.

Meanwhile, families around the Indian Ocean rim and beyond spent their sixth day of desperation trying to track down missing loved ones, including vacationers on the sunny beaches of Thailand, India and Sri Lanka. Tens of thousands were still missing, including at least 3,500 Swedes, more than 1,000 Germans and 500 each from France and Denmark.

In Sri Lanka, where more than 4,000 people were unaccounted for, television channels were devoting 10 minutes every hour to read the names and details of the missing. Often photos of the missing were shown with appeals that they should contact their families or police.

On Phuket, people scoured photos pinned to notice boards of the dead and missing. Canadian tourist Dan Kwan was still hunting for his missing parents and refused to give up hope.

"At this point we hope against hope that they are still alive somewhere," he said, adding that it was possible they were unconscious or unable to speak.

The search for loved ones on Sumatra was even less coordinated. One man was looking for his grandmother by checking corpse after corpse scattered over a road near her ruined home.
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#253 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Fri Dec 31, 2004 10:37 pm

Death toll in Sumatra touches 100,000

BANDA ACEH: Starvation, injury and disease are pushing massive numbers of refugees in tsunami-devastated Aceh closer to death “every minute”, the United Nations warned yesterday as the number of Indonesians confirmed killed in the disaster climbed towards 100,000.

Indonesia's Health Ministry said up to 100,000 people across Sumatra might have died from Sunday's earthquake-triggered tsunamis, with Aceh the scene of most fatalities.
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#254 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Sat Jan 01, 2005 2:03 am

Indonesian president visits devastated Aceh as disease breaks out
(DPA)

1 January 2005



BANDA ACEH Indonesia - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Saturday visited the devastated province of Aceh amid diarrhoea outbreaks at refugee camps and an exodus of survivors to a nearby province.

A fresh aftershock rattled the province - possibly the hardest-hit area in Sunday’s magnitude-9 earthquake and tsunamis - shortly after midnight Saturday, sending survivors, who battled the cold night air, running in panic.

That is not good :eek:
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#255 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Sat Jan 01, 2005 5:54 am

Tsunami
150,000 (UN estimate, ongoing) - Indian Ocean earthquake with tsunami, (Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Somalia, Myanmar, and other countries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_India ... ty_summary) 2004
100,000 - 1755 Lisbon earthquake, tsunami, earthquake and fire, 1755, Portugal and Morocco
100,000 - Awa, Japan, 1703
70,000 - Messina, Italy, earthquake and tsunami, 1908
40,000 - South China Sea, 1782, including deaths in Taiwan
36,000 - Krakatoa volcano explosion, 1883
30,000 - Tokaido-Nankaido, Japan, 1707
27,000 - Japan, 1826
26,000 - Sanriku, Japan, 1896
25,674 - Chile, 1868
15,030 - Southwest Kyushu, Japan, 1792
13,486 - Ryukyu Trench, 1771
5,233 - Tokaido-Kashima, Japan, 1703
5,000 - Nankaido, Japan, 1605
5,000 - Moro Gulf, Philippines, 1976
3,000 - Papua New Guinea, 1998
3,008 - Sanriku, Japan, 1933
2,000 - Great Chilean Earthquake, deaths in Chile, U.S. (Hawaii), Philipines and Japan, 1960
165 - Aleutian Island earthquake, deaths in Hawaii and Alaska, U.S., 1946
122 - Good Friday Earthquake, Alaska and Hawaii, U.S., 1964
27 or 51 - Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, Canada, 1929
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#256 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Sat Jan 01, 2005 6:21 am

Refuge in Sri Lanka


AID EFFORT HIT BY FLOODS

Flash floods have hit thousands of tsunami survivors in Sri Lanka.

Torrential rain fell in some areas on Friday and has added to the difficulty of the recovery effort.


Officials said at least 15 camps sheltering about 30,000 people have been hit.

The flash floods struck Sri Lanka's eastern district of Ampara, forcing them to be evacuated.

Herath Abeyweera, district chief, said 330 millimetres of rain had fallen overnight and crippled the relief operations.

He said a team of 20 Japanese medical staff have been prevented from reaching camps which are more than a metre underwater and relief convoys have been held up by the floods.

The heavy rain has also forced another 10,000 people out of their homes and several bridges have collapsed or been submerged.

Sri Lanka was hit hard by the Boxing Day tidal wave and volunteers in the Ampara district are trying to care for 160,000 tsunami refugees.

At least 14,000 people are still missing and officials believe the eventual Sri Lankan death toll could he higher than 40,000.

The number killed in Ampara alone is believed to be more than 10,000, local officials said.
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#257 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Sat Jan 01, 2005 4:50 pm

3 survivors walk for 5 days, find no one alive on coast

By Richard C. Paddock

Los Angeles Times

LHOKNGA, Indonesia - For five days, the three friends walked across a 95-mile wasteland of death and destruction.

Living on coconuts, cassava and unopened noodle packets they found along the way, they hiked along the west coast of Sumatra through 150 villages that had been reduced to rubble by Sunday's massive earthquake and tsunamis.

They swam across 15 rivers where bridges had been washed away. They passed more bodies than they could count, including some that had lain in the tropical sun for so long they had burst.

But for five days there is one thing they didn't see: another living person.
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#258 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Sat Jan 01, 2005 4:54 pm

Satellite images of the mess!!!

http://www.crisp.nus.edu.sg/tsunami/tsunami.html
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#259 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Sat Jan 01, 2005 8:09 pm

Thailand tsunami death toll tops 11,000
The number of dead and missing in Thailand has climbed to over 11,000.

One week after the disaster, authorities have almost given up hope that any of those unaccounted for will be found alive.

Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra says the task of recovering the bodies is far from over
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#260 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Sat Jan 01, 2005 8:39 pm

News - Death toll at 154,000 as at 1st Jan 2005
The death toll from the earthquake, the tsunamis and the resultant floods was reported to be more than 160,000, with tens of thousands of people reported missing, and over a million left homeless. Relief agencies report that one-third of the dead appear to be children. This is a result of the high proportion of children in the populations of many of the affected regions and the fact that children were the least able to resist being dragged by the surging waters. Coastal fishing communities and their fisherfolk, some of the poorest people in the region, have been the most devastated with high loss of life as well as boats and fishing gear.
States of emergency were declared in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Maldives. The United Nations has declared that the current relief operation will be the costliest one ever. Governments and NGOs fear the final death toll may double as a result of diseases, prompting a massive humanitarian response.

In terms of total fatalities and economic damage, this is the worst tsunami in recorded history the previous record being the 1703 tsunami at Awa, Japan that killed over 100,000 people and one of the ten worst earthquakes.

Confirmed death toll:
Indonesia: 100,000
Sri Lanka: 41,008
India: 8,942
Thailand: 4,510
Somalia: 132
Myanmar: 90
Maldives: 74
Malaysia: 66
Tanzania: 10
Seychelles: 10
Bangladesh: 2
Kenya: 2
South Africa: 2
Totals: 154,848
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