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anyone seen the news? holy fucking hell this is bad! i hope some of you here know what i am talking about, because mother nature DEFINITELY has something else in mind for this christmas holiday... over 7,000 people killed because of massive tidal waves... triggered by the earthquake, most powerful in 40 years... 8.9 on the scale be thankful you are alive today |
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Tsunami? Where? |
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oh ok... The 8.9 magnitude quake struck under the sea near Aceh in north Indonesia, generating a wall of water that sped across thousands of kilometres of sea. More than 3,200 died in Sri Lanka, 2,200 in Indonesia and 2,000 in India. Casualty figures are rising over a wide area, including tourist resorts on Thailand packed with holidaymakers. DISASTER TOLL Sri Lanka: 3,225 dead Indonesia: 2,200 dead India: 2,000 dead Thailand: 257 dead Malaysia: 28 dead Maldives: 10 dead Bangladesh: 2 dead Source: Government officials Eyewitness: Tsunami escape In pictures: Quake disaster Exact numbers of people killed, injured or missing in the countries hit, are impossible to confirm. Hundreds are still thought to be missing from coastal regions and, in Sri Lanka alone, officials say more than a million people have been forced from their homes. Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga declared a national disaster and the military has been deployed to help rescue efforts. Click here for map of affected area Hundreds of fishermen are missing off India's southern coast, and there are reports of scores of bodies now being washed up on beaches. Night has fallen in Indonesia and communications remain difficult, particularly to the strife-torn region of Aceh where the main quake was followed by nine aftershocks. Reports speak of bodies being recovered from trees. A national disaster has also been announced in the low-lying Maldives islands, more than 2,500km (1,500 miles) from the quake's epicentre, after they were hit by severe flooding. Waves forced out from the earthquake are even reported to have reached Somalia, on the east coast of Africa. Resort 'wiped out' International aid agencies have called for a rapid response to the emergency to avert further deaths. The European Union immediately pledged 3m euros (£2.1m) to disaster relief efforts. The beach in India's Madras was packed when the waves hit Messages of condol |
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Messages of condolences have poured in from around the world. Pope John Paul said he was praying for "the victims of this enormous tragedy". Harrowing reports of people caught in the devastation and dramatic tales of escape are emerging from the region. A resident of Kakinada in India's southern Andhra Pradesh province, P Ramanamurthy, said he saw fishermen clinging to upturned boats being swept out to sea. "I was shocked to see innumerable fishing boats flying on the shoulder of the waves, going back and forth into the sea, as if made of paper," he told the Associated Press news agency. In Thailand, hundreds of holiday bungalows are reported to have been destroyed on the popular Phi Phi island. Resort owner Chan Marongtaechar told AP: "I am afraid there will be a high figure of foreigners missing in the sea, and also my staff." Indonesia's location - along the Pacific geological "Ring of Fire" - makes it prone to volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. Sunday's tremor - the fifth strongest since 1900 - had a particularly widespread effect because it seems to have taken place just below the surface of the ocean, analysts say. Bruce Presgrave of the US Geological service told the Reuters news agency: "These big earthquakes, when they occur in shallow water... basically slosh the ocean floor... and it's as if you're rocking water in the bathtub and that wave can travel throughout the ocean." Experts say tsunamis generated by earthquakes can travel at up to 500km/h. |
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Over 10,000 dead now :( Makes me feel grateful but guilty for what I have and sitting at home eating/drinking too much. Its a bad time for a lot of people. |
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just realized that a friend is in sri lanka. hope. + + + |
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....Just got done chatting w/my friend in Thailand... He called it "population control", and I couldn't agree more. 1 Million ppl per square mile in India in some parts... I mean COME ON. Whatever Sim Earth 2004 Black and White, bitches hahaaaaaaa |
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you are stupid scum |
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great to know... that none of you give a fuck... death toll tops 22,000 |
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It's mental isn't it. |
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I haven't hearrd too much about it rreally, no doubt I'll catch up tonight when I watch the news. |
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what can one say? that "i care?" or "it's horrible" "i'm donating $6000 to help the people in sri lanka" or "i don't give a fuck" how do you express your caring? sorry if i sound rude, but i really don't know what to say. it's overwhelming. |
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no shit it's overwhelming... it just bothers me, personally that no one is really talking about it or fuck man... just chattin it up they'd rather make a topic about a new shit track they just made |
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I don't know, it's an odd kind of thing reacting to huge, horrible death tolls. I do give a fuck, and if i let myself imagine how bad it must be to be involved in something like that, losing friends, family, home and all that... yeah, it makes me feel really fucking bad for those people. I feel guilty for saying this, but hearing the words "fourth most powerful earthquake ever" just makes me want to know how bad the worst one was. I'd blame SoSyEtEee and ThuhMeeDiAaah, but i think i'm just a bit of a dispassionate cunt at heart. It's not hard for me to blank this kind of stuff out for some reason. :-/ |
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It's not that I don't carre it's just that I have nothing to say about it. |
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Ok, Giginger's response, very inappropriate and unfunny. But I'd have to join Anus_Presley in saying that it's not that I don't care, but there's simply nothing I can do about it either. It's a natural disaster, these things will occur on a dynamic planet such as ours. Positive side being that everybody reading/watching the news on this catastrophe is now informed that massively retreating seawater along seacoasts means ominous trouble i.e. get the hell outta there. |
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Will Smith said it best in "iRobot" DO I LOOK LIKE I REALLY GIVE A FUCK WHAT YOU THINK?? Bitch |
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Happy fucking cycling in your idealist world, fag. |
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sad sad life is so fucking unfair for so many people... and here we are posting in the internet... its scary |
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There's no need for lamentation, but that doesn't mean you have to be harsh and insensitive about it. |
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well this is a music messageboard. |
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:) |
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