Earthquake

[Reclusion]

I enjoy how some of these idiots are taking the appropriate time to dog on America at a time like this...

And for those of you in the states that haven't seen any coverage, you might want to just turn on a television set to ANY FUCKING NEWS CHANNEL. I'm sorry, but E! and MTV aren't going to cut it this time.

[Evasive]

God damn, 35 mill down the drain.

If it happened where you live, you would gladly accept money from other countries as foreign aid. Shut up.

[Richard Creager]

This doesn't happen where I live.
Hypothetics are useless.

[Fallen Angel]

Wow RC, a lot of people took the bait huh...
Classic.

[Jeansi]

US has made the largest pledge ($35m) to help.

per capita that's just about nothing, though

edit: Read the second page too now and TK already pointed that out, my bad.

[Galleleo]

Latest news:

Victims:

Country                  Total          Tourists         dutchmen 
Indonesië               79.940             -                   - 
Sri Lanka                22.799       about 100             
                                           (60 missing)           1 
India                     13.230            -                    -   
Thailand                 1975             710 
                                          (3000 missing)       4/9*
                                                               (25 à 30 missing) 
Myanmar                 36                -                    - 
Maleisië                   64                -                   - 
Bangladesh               2                 -                   - 
Malediven                67                -                   - 
Oost-Afrika             136               -                   - 
Total                    118.249       ca. 810            5/10*

*According to Thaise dutch embassy (or however you spell that)

Got this from a dutch site, therefor dutch people are named seperate, maybe someone from sweden could name those numbers, because I know those are alot more.

http://www.nos.nl/nieuws/achtergrond...chtoffers.html

edit: ok that table doesn't really look good, but you get the picture.

[Galleleo]

Last thing I heard we are already over 120 000 bodies counted, and still thousand of people missing, and of course still a big possibilty of diseases kicking in.

Indonesie with about 80 000 bodies by far the worst hit country.

I just read: 44 swedes are officialy dead, and still about 1500 missing, swedish goverment is projecting a number of 1000 bodies. Norway is missing about 930 people. Germany is next to Sweden worst hit, 49 germans counted so far, and still over a 1000 missing.

About 5 000 000 are left homeless, of wich 3 000 000 in Indonesie and about 1 000 000 in Sri Lanka.

People in indonesia and India were warned this morning for more tsunami's coming because of afterschock, about 13 afterschocks occured, al within 6 to 7.1 on the scale of richter (right term in english?). Scientist say it needs atleast a 7.5 for a tsunami to occur, so it was a false alarm, but yet total chaos occured.

This disaster is gonna enter the top 10 of worst disasters ever.

Year      Type           Country        victims 
1887      flood           China         1 miljoen 
1556      earthquake      China         830.000 
1737      earthquake      India         300.000 
1970      Tornado         Pakistan      300.000 
1976      earhtquake      China         255.000 
1138      earthquake      Syrië         230.000 
1920      earthquake      China         200.000 
893       earthquake      Iran          150.000 
1923      earthquake      Japan         143.000 
1991      Whirlwind       Bangladesh    138.000 
1948      earhtquake      Turkmenistan  110.000 
1908      earthquake      Italië        100.000 
1815      Vulcano         Indonesië     92.000 
1902      Vulcano         Martinique    40.000 
1883      Vulcano         Indonesië     36.000 
2003      earthquake      Iran (Bam)    31.000

[Galleleo]

[Galleleo]

Tourists helping with evacuation.


Father with his dead son


Searching for bodies


EDIT: sorry for all the bad english in previous posts..

[Galleleo]

World bank is gonna put 250 000 000 aside, wich brings us to a total of half a billion dollar (I think, could be euro but then again thats almost the same) in total for this. (thats a total of all the world)

[Brettles]

Such an awful disaster.






Australia has donated 35 million and plans to donate futher.

[Galleleo]

Our state lotery has made records profits this year and they are gonna donate 1 million.

[Mantra-Slider]

more than 3500 swedes missing actually.

[Due]

anyone know where u can watch the video about the huge waves?

[Ace]

anyone know where u can watch the video about the huge waves?

go look it up on a file sharing program, and it doesnt so much look like a huge wall of water but more like a constant flow of water almost like a big sheet of water that just keeps moving inland.