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Tidal Wave in Indonesia

This is huge many other countries are affected. many fisherman in India dead, tidal waves in Sri Lanka.

there might be damage in thailand as well. very sad
 
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Tidal Waves Kill More Than 700 in Asia

9 minutes ago

By LELY T. DJUHARI, Associated Press Writer

JAKARTA, Indonesia - The world's most powerful earthquake in 40 years rocked northern Indonesia on Sunday and launched tidal waves that swamped villages and seaside resorts across Asia, killing more than 700 people in five countries.
Some 300 were reported killed in Sri Lanka, 286 in India, 94 in Indonesia, 61 in Thailand and seven in Malaysia. Hundreds were reported missing, and the death toll was expected to rise.

The U.S. Geological Survey (news - web sites) said a magnitude-8.9 quake ? one capable of massive damage ? struck off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra at 8 a.m. Sunday. The USGS (news - web sites) revised the quake's size upward from magnitude-8.5.

Soon after it hit, immense waves or tsunamis crashed into several countries, and aftershocks in the magnitude-7 range were seen, the USGS said, raising the possibility of a catastrophic regional death toll.

Waves crashed into coastal villages over a wide area of Sri Lanka ? some 1,000 miles west of the quake's epicenter ? killing some 300 people and displacing thousands of others, said military spokesman Brig. Daya Ratnayake.

Parts of the northeastern districts of Muttur and Trincomalee were inundated by waves as high as 20 feet, said D. Rodrigo, a Muttur district official.

In India, beaches were turned into virtual open mortuaries with bodies of people caught in the tidal wave being washed ashore.

At least 150 were recovered around the coastal town of Cuddalore, said deputy Superintendent of police K. Panniselvan. Some 100 others were found around Madras, the capital of Tamil Nadu, said Police Chief R. Nataraj. Thirty-six were killed in neighboring Andhra Pradesh, said state Chief Minister Y. Rajashekhar Reddy.

Officials at the USGS, based in Golden, Colo., blamed the tidal waves on the quake.

"This is not unusual occurrence for an earthquake this size and where it's located," said geophysicist Julie Martinez.

Martinez said the quake was the world's fifth-largest since 1900 and the largest since a 9.2 quake hit Prince William Sound Alaska in 1964.

At least 94 people were killed in Indonesia's Aceh province, hospital and local officials said.

Bireun district head Mustofa Glanggang told The Associated Press that 50 people were killed in Bireun district, and 35 bodies were brought to Cut Meutia Hospital in the northern city of Lhokseumawe, an official there said. Nine others were killed in the provincial capital Banda Aceh, witnesses told a local radio station.

Communications were down in several coastal towns facing the epicenter of the undersea quake off the western coast of Aceh, raising fears of widespread and as yet unreported damage in the region.

"The ground was shaking for a long time," resident Yayan Zamzani told Jakarta's el-Shinta radio station. "It must be the strongest earthquake in the last 15 years."

Sixty-one people died and many were missing in popular southern Thailand resorts, the Narenthorn Center of the Public Health Ministry reported. The center also reported that people were swept away in Phuket by a tsunami with waves surging as high as 16 feet.

The Bangladesh Meteorological Department said a powerful earthquake jolted a wide area of that country early Sunday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. The quake was reported to be a magnitude-7.3.



Police in Malaysia said seven people were killed in tidal waves.

Indonesia, a country of 17,000 islands, is prone to seismic upheaval because of its location on the margins of tectonic plates that make up the so-called the "Ring of Fire" around the Pacific Ocean basin.

The Indonesian quake struck just three days after an 8.1 quake struck the ocean floor between Australia and Antarctica, causing buildings to shake hundreds of miles away but no serious damage or injury.

Quakes reaching a magnitude 8 are very rare. A quake registering magnitude 8 rocked Japan's northern island of Hokkaido on Sept. 25, 2003, injuring nearly 600 people. An 8.4 magnitude tremor that stuck off the coast of Peru on June 23, 2001, killed 74.

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Associated Press writer Dilip Ganguly contributed to this report from Colombo, Sri Lanka.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/ne...s/indonesia_earthquake
 
I live in Chennai and experienced mild tremors in the early morning. Thankfully, the waves stopped at the beach and didnt come into the city.
 
the death toll is up to 3,000 now (noon GMT, 6 am Eastern). I have colleagues in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam... I sent text messages to everyone about 2 hours ago. No or relatively minor damage reported in Vietnam and Bangladesh (at least what was known to my co workers)... Significant damage in Thailand and Indonesia but thankfully all our employees are okay as far as they can tell. Chaos in Sri Lanka. My friend is in Colombo, but he cannot contact our employees down south at Galle. we expect some damage there....
 
Toll keeps getting higher. 🙁

JAKARTA, Indonesia - The world's most powerful earthquake in 40 years triggered massive tidal waves that slammed into villages and seaside resorts across Asia on Sunday, killing more than 5,600 people in six countries.

Tourists, fishermen, homes and cars were swept away by walls of water up to 20 feet high that swept across the Bay of Bengal, unleashed by the 8.9-magnitude earthquake centered off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

In Sri Lanka, 1,000 miles west of the epicenter, more than 2,425 people were killed, the prime minister's office said. At least 1,870 died in Indonesia, and 1,130 along the southern coasts of India. At least 168 were confirmed dead in Thailand, 42 in Malaysia and 2 in Bangladesh.

But officials expected the death toll to rise dramatically, with hundreds reported missing and all communications cut off to Sumatran towns closest to the epicenter. Hundreds of bodies were found on various beaches along India's southern state of Tamil Nadu, and more were expected to be washed in by the sea, officials said.
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Edit: 8.9 on the R scale is unreal, that is HUGE.
 
Originally posted by: bamacre
Toll keeps getting higher. 🙁

JAKARTA, Indonesia - The world's most powerful earthquake in 40 years triggered massive tidal waves that slammed into villages and seaside resorts across Asia on Sunday, killing more than 5,600 people in six countries.

Tourists, fishermen, homes and cars were swept away by walls of water up to 20 feet high that swept across the Bay of Bengal, unleashed by the 8.9-magnitude earthquake centered off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

In Sri Lanka, 1,000 miles west of the epicenter, more than 2,425 people were killed, the prime minister's office said. At least 1,870 died in Indonesia, and 1,130 along the southern coasts of India. At least 168 were confirmed dead in Thailand, 42 in Malaysia and 2 in Bangladesh.

But officials expected the death toll to rise dramatically, with hundreds reported missing and all communications cut off to Sumatran towns closest to the epicenter. Hundreds of bodies were found on various beaches along India's southern state of Tamil Nadu, and more were expected to be washed in by the sea, officials said.
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Edit: 8.9 on the R scale is unreal, that is HUGE.
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8.9????!??!??!? Holy sh*t!!!
 
Originally posted by: Darkhawk28
Originally posted by: bamacre
Toll keeps getting higher. 🙁

JAKARTA, Indonesia - The world's most powerful earthquake in 40 years triggered massive tidal waves that slammed into villages and seaside resorts across Asia on Sunday, killing more than 5,600 people in six countries.

Tourists, fishermen, homes and cars were swept away by walls of water up to 20 feet high that swept across the Bay of Bengal, unleashed by the 8.9-magnitude earthquake centered off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

In Sri Lanka, 1,000 miles west of the epicenter, more than 2,425 people were killed, the prime minister's office said. At least 1,870 died in Indonesia, and 1,130 along the southern coasts of India. At least 168 were confirmed dead in Thailand, 42 in Malaysia and 2 in Bangladesh.

But officials expected the death toll to rise dramatically, with hundreds reported missing and all communications cut off to Sumatran towns closest to the epicenter. Hundreds of bodies were found on various beaches along India's southern state of Tamil Nadu, and more were expected to be washed in by the sea, officials said.
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Edit: 8.9 on the R scale is unreal, that is HUGE.
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8.9????!??!??!? Holy sh*t!!!
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Here is a small graph showing the differences among magnitudes...Text (...pulled from HERE.)

As you can see the difference between a 7.0 and an 8.9 is unbelieveable, a 9.0 is NOT 130% more powerful than a 7.0, it is roughly 1000 times as powerful. Damn, think about it, 1000 times more powerful than a 7.0 earthquake.

This is bad, the toll will probably hit 10,000. 🙁
 
sadly enough you may well turn out to be right... a lot of these places don't have any telecomms worth the name... it will take them days to get a grip on the actual toll..... considering how packed some of these places are (one of the hardest hit was Phuket... at this time, there are probably 20,000 tourists just in that region alone) 10,000 does not sound unreal.... God help us....

why does nature vent its fury on the most helpless?????
 
Originally posted by: DeeKnow
sadly enough you may well turn out to be right... a lot of these places don't have any telecomms worth the name... it will take them days to get a grip on the actual toll..... considering how packed some of these places are (one of the hardest hit was Phuket... at this time, there are probably 20,000 tourists just in that region alone) 10,000 does not sound unreal.... God help us....

why does nature vent its fury on the most helpless?????
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In the long eyes of nature, we are all helpless.
 
What an incredible act of nature...

They will never no the exact number of people dead, its a great human tragedy.

I wonder if this will cause any quakes anywhere else in the world?

I mean 8.9 is huge...
 
this may well get in the 20,000 range..

same day last year as that earthquake in BAM, Iran, that wiped out the entire city and killed 30,000+


Imagine sitting on the beach at a resort and seeing a 150ft tidal wave racing towards you.......
 
if the death toll still continues to rise like this when it's still dark in Asia, i think the full extent of the damage can only be seen in a few hours time when the sun rises.......my country, Malaysia which was shielded by Sumatera from the direct wave and yet it still hit one of the northern islands and there's 53 dead and 34 missing currently in the northern states
 
from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4125581.stm

Eyewitness: Sri Lanka tsunami

By Roland Buerk
BBC News, Sri Lanka

There are no emergency services for survivors to rely on at the moment

I'm in a town called Unawatuna, which is on the south coast of Sri Lanka.

We didn't feel the earthquake here so there was no warning at all.

Then at about 1000 this morning our time a huge wave suddenly hit the beach.

We were still in bed in a ground floor room right on the beachfront when we suddenly heard some shouts from outside.

Then the water started coming under the door. Within a few seconds it was touching the window.

We very quickly scrambled to get out as the windows started to cave in and glass shattered everywhere.

We swam out of the room neck deep in water, forcing our way through the tables and chairs in the restaurant and up into a tree.

But within about 30 seconds that tree collapsed as well and we were thrust back into the water where we had to try and keep our heads above the water line.

We were swept along for a few hundred metres, trying to dodge the motorcycles, refrigerators, cars and other debris that were coming with us.

Finally, about 300m inshore, we managed to get hold of a pillar, which we held onto until the waters just gradually began to subside.

Other people though weren't so lucky.

One elderly British gentleman was walking around in a state of shock. His wife had been swimming when the waves struck.

And a family has just walked past carrying a very small bundle with pale white feet poking out the bottom of it.

As they walked past, the teenage son, wearing an England football shirt said in a very matter of fact way "My brother is dead".

Looking around it's easy to see that this has caused incredible devastation here. There are cars in trees, buildings destroyed.

But it is impossible really to get an accurate picture of the number of casualties from where I am.

I haven't looked around a great deal yet, and I certainly haven't been inside the ruins of the hotel or other buildings, or joined in the digging.

But in one small area of one small village I have seen four bodies so far, including two Sri Lankans - an elderly lady and a young woman - and the Western boy who looked to be about five years old.

There are no kind of emergency services here, there are no helicopters thumping through the sky to come to save people.

It is a do-it-yourself rescue.

People are trying to go through the buildings and rescue those who might be trapped.

Most people have gone up onto higher ground, fearful of another tidal wave - rumours are that another one might be coming and people are trying to get up onto the hills.

There are no real medical services here either at the moment.

A call went round about 15 minutes ago for a doctor because a man's pulse was getting weaker and weaker but there are no doctors here.

I think the death toll is likely to rise quite sharply as rescuers start to arrive, and bodies begin to be dug out.
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