Tsunami kills 11K+ in India, Asia.
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cat daddy
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The death toll is now over 23K.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/12/27/asia.quake/index.html
Scientist here in the US knew it was coming, but had no way of alerting authorities in the countries affected.
The devastation is mindboggling.
The death toll is now over 23K.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/12/27/asia.quake/index.html
Scientist here in the US knew it was coming, but had no way of alerting authorities in the countries affected.
The devastation is mindboggling.
Bartram
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boy we don't know how good we got it in this country. they were talking about something like this in the U.S. and they say basically the west coast (northern Cali, Oregon and Washington state) is the most vulnerable,, basically the whole pacific rim because of the frequency of quakes there. the U.S. would be prepared more so than these countries. man, they were devastated. that had to be the epocolypse for them. nature ain't no joke.
boy we don't know how good we got it in this country. they were talking about something like this in the U.S. and they say basically the west coast (northern Cali, Oregon and Washington state) is the most vulnerable,, basically the whole pacific rim because of the frequency of quakes there. the U.S. would be prepared more so than these countries. man, they were devastated. that had to be the epocolypse for them. nature ain't no joke.
Robber
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Listening to reports of how the tsunami "worked" was numbing to me. They say all the water along the coastline was sucked out to sea, leaving fish and other sea creatures exposed. Some people went down to the beach to actually grab some easy fish, and minutes later the huge waves started rolling in killing them.
Nature really has its ways of letting us know that it can wreak havoc.
Listening to reports of how the tsunami "worked" was numbing to me. They say all the water along the coastline was sucked out to sea, leaving fish and other sea creatures exposed. Some people went down to the beach to actually grab some easy fish, and minutes later the huge waves started rolling in killing them.
Nature really has its ways of letting us know that it can wreak havoc.
mighty hornet
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Re: Sunami kills 11K+ in India, Asia.
indescribable
52K now.cat daddy said:
indescribable
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Robber, if you've ever seen that movie "Deep Impact," it depicts how these massive waves work, and how they gain intensity as they reach closer to the shore. While it is a science fiction film, (that dealt with a large asteroid striking the ocean at over 300 mph) alot of the destruction special effects are based on fact. When the ocean floor sank and then "sprung back" like a trampoline, it created the tsunamis that ravaged the coastlines of everything in its path.
I can only imagine how frightening it was for all those poor people to see a 100 ft. wall of water approaching you at top speed, and not knowing what to do to avoid it.
Robber said:
Robber, if you've ever seen that movie "Deep Impact," it depicts how these massive waves work, and how they gain intensity as they reach closer to the shore. While it is a science fiction film, (that dealt with a large asteroid striking the ocean at over 300 mph) alot of the destruction special effects are based on fact. When the ocean floor sank and then "sprung back" like a trampoline, it created the tsunamis that ravaged the coastlines of everything in its path.
I can only imagine how frightening it was for all those poor people to see a 100 ft. wall of water approaching you at top speed, and not knowing what to do to avoid it.
Robber
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Re: Sunami kills 11K+ in India, Asia.
I saw that movie. I've been referencing it when discussing this tragic event. But Deep Impact didn't show how the water at the beach sucks "out to sea" just before the tsunami hits land. And to have no warning at all. At least on Deep Impact, I could have gone to a marine store and stole some scuba gear.AAMU Alum said:
Bartram
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Re: Sunami kills 11K+ in India, Asia.
I never thought earthquakes could cause such devastating tsunamis, but when you think about it can see the way this works on a small scale playing everyday as a kid in a mud puddle (,,,gee, i know that's probably foreign to must kids growing up today; playing in a mud puddle? HA! ). can remember throwing hug rocks in the puddle and you could see the edges of the puddle suck in and then small waves radiating to all parts of the puddle. it's a good thing there are no very active faults in the gulf of mexico. a tsunami in the gulf would devastate the entire gulf coast states.
I never thought earthquakes could cause such devastating tsunamis, but when you think about it can see the way this works on a small scale playing everyday as a kid in a mud puddle (,,,gee, i know that's probably foreign to must kids growing up today; playing in a mud puddle? HA! ). can remember throwing hug rocks in the puddle and you could see the edges of the puddle suck in and then small waves radiating to all parts of the puddle. it's a good thing there are no very active faults in the gulf of mexico. a tsunami in the gulf would devastate the entire gulf coast states.
AAMU Alum
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Actually, Rob, it did.
Remember the scene when the girl from CNN was there on the beach with her dad, just before the wave hit? It was a very quick frame in the movie (for drama's sake, I guess,) but the two of them were there holding each other, waiting for the wave to hit. And because of how that wave was generated, it was moving so fast that the water along the shore "sucked out," and within the next few seconds, the wave was upon them. I've got that movie on DVD, and while I enjoyed it before for it's entertainment value and special effects, I'll watch it with a totally different mindset from here on out.
The lack of any type of modern natural disaster warning system is the cause of so many deaths in this tragedy.
Robber said:
Actually, Rob, it did.
Remember the scene when the girl from CNN was there on the beach with her dad, just before the wave hit? It was a very quick frame in the movie (for drama's sake, I guess,) but the two of them were there holding each other, waiting for the wave to hit. And because of how that wave was generated, it was moving so fast that the water along the shore "sucked out," and within the next few seconds, the wave was upon them. I've got that movie on DVD, and while I enjoyed it before for it's entertainment value and special effects, I'll watch it with a totally different mindset from here on out.
The lack of any type of modern natural disaster warning system is the cause of so many deaths in this tragedy.
AAMU Alum
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You're right. That's the battle they are fighting now. The danger from the water itself has all but ceased. They are digging mass graves to get the dead buried as quickly as possible to guard from that as much as they can. They've been talking about how the stench from the dead bodies is simply unbearable.
I can't imagine having experienced something like that, and moreover, I can't imagine the scene after the waters subsided and revealed all of those poor people who lost their lives. It would have to be like all the bad dreams you ever had as a kid come to life.
cat daddy said:
You're right. That's the battle they are fighting now. The danger from the water itself has all but ceased. They are digging mass graves to get the dead buried as quickly as possible to guard from that as much as they can. They've been talking about how the stench from the dead bodies is simply unbearable.
I can't imagine having experienced something like that, and moreover, I can't imagine the scene after the waters subsided and revealed all of those poor people who lost their lives. It would have to be like all the bad dreams you ever had as a kid come to life.
<font size="4">TSUNAMI FACTS</font>
Tsunami, a Japanese word meaning ?harbor wave,? is a wave in the ocean or lake created by a geologic event. Often a tsunami is incorrectly referred to as a tidal wave, which, strictly speaking, describes the periodic movement of water associated with the rise and fall of the tides. The term tsunami was adopted for general use in 1963 by an international scientific conference.
Oceanographers call tsunamis seismic seawaves because they are usually caused by earthquakes, landslides or marineslides under or near the ocean. These push the water upward, sideways or downward to create the tsunami waves. Volcanic eruptions can also cause tsunamis. They are more common in the Pacific Ocean.
A tsunami is not a single wave, but a series of waves that can travel across the ocean at speeds of more than 500 miles an hour.
In the deep ocean, hundreds of miles can separate wave crests; many people have lost their lives during tsunamis after returning home thinking the waves had stopped.
As the tsunami enters the shallows of coastlines in its path, its velocity slows but its height increases. A tsunami that is just a few centimeters or meters high from trough to crest can rear up to heights of 30 to 50 meters as it hits the shore, striking with devastating force.
For those on shore there is little warning of a tsunami?s approach. The first indication is often a sharp swell, not unlike an ordinary storm swell.
In 1883, a tsunami following the eruption of Krakatoa volcano between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra killed 36,000. The tsunami?s passage was traced as far away as Panama.
In July 1998, two undersea quakes measuring 7.0 created three tsunamis that killed at least 2,100 near the town of Aitape on the north coast of Papua New Guinea.
Source: <a href="http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami-hazard/tsunami_faqs.htm" target="_blank">http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami-hazard/tsunami_faqs.htm</a>
Tsunami, a Japanese word meaning ?harbor wave,? is a wave in the ocean or lake created by a geologic event. Often a tsunami is incorrectly referred to as a tidal wave, which, strictly speaking, describes the periodic movement of water associated with the rise and fall of the tides. The term tsunami was adopted for general use in 1963 by an international scientific conference.
Oceanographers call tsunamis seismic seawaves because they are usually caused by earthquakes, landslides or marineslides under or near the ocean. These push the water upward, sideways or downward to create the tsunami waves. Volcanic eruptions can also cause tsunamis. They are more common in the Pacific Ocean.
A tsunami is not a single wave, but a series of waves that can travel across the ocean at speeds of more than 500 miles an hour.
In the deep ocean, hundreds of miles can separate wave crests; many people have lost their lives during tsunamis after returning home thinking the waves had stopped.As the tsunami enters the shallows of coastlines in its path, its velocity slows but its height increases. A tsunami that is just a few centimeters or meters high from trough to crest can rear up to heights of 30 to 50 meters as it hits the shore, striking with devastating force.
For those on shore there is little warning of a tsunami?s approach. The first indication is often a sharp swell, not unlike an ordinary storm swell.
In 1883, a tsunami following the eruption of Krakatoa volcano between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra killed 36,000. The tsunami?s passage was traced as far away as Panama.
In July 1998, two undersea quakes measuring 7.0 created three tsunamis that killed at least 2,100 near the town of Aitape on the north coast of Papua New Guinea.
Source: <a href="http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami-hazard/tsunami_faqs.htm" target="_blank">http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami-hazard/tsunami_faqs.htm</a>
mighty hornet
The HMIC!!
It's over 85K now. And rising
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