Terrible disaster in Asia

[dinkyjacksonman]

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Terrible thing to happen especially the time of the year.
I am sure many people were there for the Christmas Vacation.
It makes me just so sad... [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[RacerX]

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12,300 souls lost [img]/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img]


Latest report with maps:

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.j...toryID=7180384

[GodOfRhythm]

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Yes, upto 13000 dead. Millions of homeless and thousands more wounded. The Deathtoll will go up.


A sad, sad day. My thought are with all those affected.

[zx12r]

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i felt a little tremor when i was sleeping..i thought there was a troll under my bed. i never thought that little tremor came from one of the biggest earthquake ever recorded and kills lot of people too. then i continue sleeping..

[ROCKPRO]

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Someone has to have video that shows a huge 20/30 foot wave!

[GodOfRhythm]

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Not to take away from this tragedy and not to
discourage you guys. But since people here are interested by tidal waves, I shall share with you a fact I know.

The entire east coast of the US will be totally annihilated in the future. It could be tomorrow, it could be in 150 years. But it will happen.

An island of the Canarian Islands (off the west coast of Africa) has a gigantic volcano in the middle of it. The island is breaking in half, the next big eruption will cause half of the island to slip into the Atlantic ocean. It will hereby cause the greatest tidal wave ever. It will reach over 1.2 kilometers high during it's transatlantic travel. And it will go over mach 1 in speed. When it comes near the US east coast it will slow down, the ocean will pull back into the tidal wave, causing beaches to become kilometers wider than they were. The wave will slow down, which happens with all tidal waves. But as a result of this it will grow higher to almost 2 kilometers, and it will hit the coast at 500 to 800 kilometers an hour at this phenomenal height. Everything, and they mean everything will be destroyed 'til hundreds of kilometers inland.

[jacktheshredder]

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Someone has to have video that shows a huge 20/30 foot wave!

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Id imagine something like this is as much or more than 5x that. I recall seeing a special about these storms on the Discovery channel a year ago or so - these things are huge.

Horrible disaster. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[RacerX]

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Amazingly, I found a couple articles about this:

Volcano off African coast could unleash killer wave on New York

The threat of a giant tsunami is a bit like the threat of an asteroid hitting the earth: real, but remote.

[dfvxc]

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Damn, I'd imagine that if they had an efficient alert system across these countries, like Japan, a lot of lives could have been saved. Afterall it takes time for waves to travel.

Anyone heard anything about Bali? I have a friend there. Looking at the map it seems it should be OK though.

[zx12r]

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It's OK here in Kuala Lumpur.

[IrfaanSE801]

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The movie "The Day After Tomorrow" is coming to mind after reading all the posts. But damn, over 13,000 is a sickening number. Hope anyone with friends/families over there is ok. Hey Crankdaddy, were you able to get in touch with your friends?

[lerxstcat]

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Amazingly, I found a couple articles about this: Volcano off African coast could unleash killer wave on New York The threat of a giant tsunami is a bit like the threat of an asteroid hitting the earth: real, but remote.

[/ QUOTE ]Can't read the second article without signing up.As for GOR's prediction about Grand Canaria, I've heard that too. Also I've heard the same thing will happen to the Big Island of Hawaii, affecting the US West Coast and the Pacific Rim and destroying all of the Hawaiian slandsin the process. Could happen tomorrow or 100,000 years from now, no one knows.Then there's the giant caldera centered around Yellowstone Park. It's supposed to be due to erupt, which would instantly kill everything in a 1,000-mile radius and cause a nuclear-winter effect over the entire Northern Hemisphere. Eurasia would survive the blast to freeze in a 5-year winter.Hey, just tryin' to cheer y'all up! [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[lerxstcat]

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It's OK here in Kuala Lumpur.

[/ QUOTE ]Kuala Lumpur's in Malaysia, but your sig says Papua New Guinea... ???? I thought Papua New Guinea was part of Indonesia, not Malaysia.

[megameta]

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unbelievable!

what a tragedy...no one really knows when our time is up....

[charvelguy]

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They're calling it a 9.0 now on the USGS and MSN.
The successive aftershocks were the appearant fuel for the tsunami's.


"The quake was centered 155 miles south-southeast of Banda Aceh, the capital of Indonesia’s Aceh province on Sumatra, and six miles under the Indian Ocean’s seabed. The temblor leveled dozens of buildings on Sumatra — and was followed by at least a half-dozen powerful aftershocks, ranging in magnitude from almost 6 to 7.3. The waves that followed the first massive jolt were far more lethal."