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9.0 Richter Earthquake in Indonesia; TRAGEDY
Topic Started: Dec 28 2004, 12:29 PM (475 Views)
adamosthegreek
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A few days ago their was a HUMONGOUS 9.0 Richter earthquake 200 miles from Sumatra which is part of Indonesia. The earthquake occurred out in the Indian Ocean which sadly led to numerous tsunamis (huge waves) that were around 20 meters high (like 60 feet!!!). This earthquake had sent these enormous tsunamis as far as Northern AFrica!!!! The earthquake has killed people in 20 countries! The total CONFIRMED death count at this point is OVER 44,000 PEOPLE DEAD!!!!!!!!! And what's even worse, is that most of the dead are children who couldn't swim through these massive waves that destroyed beachside villages, and flooded major cities. There are also a lot of tourists and government officials from many countries over there.
This is a worldwide catastrophe that each day keeps getting worse.
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TheGreatOne
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This is very rare in the Indian Ocean and countries like Thailand does have a system set up, but they do not have deep water systems. Plus, this has never happened in the history of Thailand/Phuket and I heard 1 hour was not enough time to make a public alert from Alaska.
Indonesia seems to have many earthquakes and tsunamis so they should have set up a tsunamis alert system in the Indian Ocean.

Sri Lanka and India are not econmically strong enough to set up any systems like this.

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I was watching news stories on this disaster late last night and it's unbelievable how much destruction these tsunamis cause. Around 30,000 people are dead, and many towns are underwater.

The ironic thing is that in alot of the video footage shown, people are laughing and acting like it's no big deal. I guess they didn't realize at the time just how much damage the tsunamis were going to cause.
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Over 67,000 people are CONFIRMED dead. :( Death toll had risen over twenty-thousand from yesterday. :( And it's only getting worse. :(
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24A!Z!U!bukie24
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i heard the earth was knocked off its axis for a little bit and that they had to move time ahead about 1/12 a second
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It keeps getting worse: over 77,000 people are CONFIRMED dead. :(
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24A!Z!U!bukie24
Dec 29 2004 06:33 PM
i heard the earth was knocked off its axis for a little bit and that they had to move time ahead about 1/12 a second

You are absolutely right. I'm studying Astronomy in my University and recently I had to study about the earth axis and the energy envolved to dislocate it... it's simply unbelievable... the axis was dislocated by almost 5 cm.... and I won't even talk about the earth rotation period being delayed by something like 0.003 sec because that simply goes way beyond my ability to understand it... I mean, I know it happened, but I can't imagine the amount of energy that was needed to do so....

My goodness... so many lost lives.... :(
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I didn't know the Earth got knocked off its' axis? :wow: :(
Death toll keeps mounting as now over 114,000 people are CONFIRMED dead. :(
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Wow...this is just getting worse and worse. :(
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Now there's over 117,000 CONFIRMED dead. Over 50,000 children are dead, and like another 50,000 are reported missing. :( :( :( :( :( :wow:
There are predictions that the final death count will reach 200,000! :( :(
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TheGreatOne
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Sadly the count is still going to go up...
CNN said it probably will go atleast to 200K

They havent even visited all the locations...

Alot of folks are still missing...

:(
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adamosthegreek
Dec 30 2004 05:08 PM
Now there's over 117,000 CONFIRMED dead. Over 50,000 children are dead, and like another 50,000 are reported missing. :( :( :( :( :( :wow:
There are predictions that the final death count will reach 200,000! :( :(

This has got to be the weirdest and most tragic New Year ever..
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true dat
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As of today, there are now over 150,000 people confirmed dead. :( And they haven't even visited other towns yet. :(
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