Sea surges kill thousands in Asia -tragedia"9,500 people have been killed"

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[Lijahsbubbe]

BTW, I wonder if this quake has anything to do with the 8.1 quake at the South Pole?

Do you have a link for that? Thanks much.

[JudyB1938]

Other Current Earthquakes / Largest-Ever Iceberg Hazard

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308657/posts
We're not affected directly here in Australia but I wonder whether there's a connection between this massive quake and the one which hit in between New Zealand, Tasmania and Macquarie Island to our south two days ago. It was the then biggest quake anywhere in the world so far this year. It seems more than a coincidence that this catastrophe comes so soon afterwards. Commiserations to everyone in the affected area. Steven Cinquegrana, Melbourne, Australia

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308009/posts
An earthquake on a remote Antarctic archipelago home to 850,000 King Penguins was the strongest on earth in four years, seismologists say. The quake hit 400km (250 miles) off the Macquarie Islands on Friday, measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1303779/posts
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- A remnant of the largest iceberg ever recorded is blocking Antarctica's McMurdo Sound, threatening tens of thousands of penguin chicks with starvation and cutting off a supply route for three science stations, according to a New Zealand official. The iceberg, known as B15A, measures about 1,200 square miles, said Lou Sanson, chief executive of the government scientific agency Antarctica New Zealand. He called it "the largest floating thing on the planet right now" and said U.S. researchers estimate it contains enough water to supply Egypt's Nile River complex for 80 years.

[anonymoussierra]

BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4126327.stm
Timeline: Quake disaster

BBC News looks at how the world's strongest earthquake for 40 years, which triggered sea surges and killed several thousand across southern Asia, developed.

All times approximate and GMT and local

Sunday 26 December

0100 GMT (0800):The 8.9 magnitude quake occurs under the sea near Aceh in northern Indonesia, generating a wall of water that speeds across thousands of kilometres of sea

0130 GMT (0830):Eyewitnesses on Phuket island's main beach experience a series of towering waves which hit the coast around this time

0400 GMT (0930): Parts of India's eastern coast experience mild tremors

0430 GMT (1030): Reports emerge that tidal waves have flooded southern and eastern areas of Sri Lanka, 1,600km (1,000 miles) from the epicentre

0540 GMT (1140): BBC correspondent Roland Buerk in Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, says that bodies are being pulled out of buildings in the ruined resort and many survivors are wandering around in shock

Click here for map of affected area

0540 GMT (1110): Reports from the southern Indian city of Madras say tidal waves have claimed lives

0615 GMT (1215): Tremors from the quake are felt in Bangladesh

0630 GMT (1130): High waves and floods are reported in the Maldives in the Indian Ocean

0700 GMT (1230): BBC correspondent Matthew Grant in Calcutta, India, says the sea surge has caused devastation across southern and eastern parts of the country, with the number of people reported dead continuing to rise

0710 GMT (1510): People are reported to have been swept away from beaches near the island of Penang in Malaysia

1110 GMT (1640): Our correspondent in Calcutta says up to 800 people have died in the southern state of Tamil Nadu and the sea surges have also struck the Indian Andaman and Nicobar islands

1500 GMT (1800): Reuters news agency reports that in Somalia, strong waves and winds capsized boats and kept fishermen in port

1625 GMT (2325): The BBC's Rachel Harvey in Jakarta says that the current death toll in Indonesia is about 2,000

[Gucho]

Voice of Russia Radio:

http://www.wrn.org/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=25 (Click on to language and day)

[anonymoussierra]

Thank you

[JudyB1938]

Your post came through while I was posting the link. See just above.

[anonymoussierra]

Thank you Happy Christmas America good friend that is totalna tragedia G-D help that persons!

[Gucho]

WRN Station List;

http://www.wrn.org/listeners/stations/index.php?CurrentLetter=1/

[Peach]

Freeper incindiary is in Indonesia on a missionary project. Please pray for her.

[Gucho]

"Thank you Happy Christmas America good friend that is totalna tragedia G-D help that persons!"

Thank you and Merry Christmas. Yes, may G-D help the people of such a tragic happening.

[JudyB1938]

Peach reports: "Freeper incindiary is in Indonesia on a missionary project. Please pray for her."

[geopyg]

I think this disaster will be up in the hundreds of thousands dead - and millions displaced. Prayers for them and rescuers, and open hearts and wallets of those that can help.

[anonymoussierra]

"Freeper incindiary is in Indonesia on a missionary project. Please pray for her.Freeper incindiary is in Indonesia on a missionary project. Please pray for her."I WILL! Thank you G-D help G-D help that persons!

[expatguy]

Expect it to go to at least 30,000 if not higher. It is much worse than being reported.

[expatguy]

Nobody wants to say what happened there. Can't find any news myself.

[Dog]

May I ask where you are?

[Lijahsbubbe]

An unidentified mother cries near the bodies of her daughters who died in tidal waves at Kanyakumari, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu

Injured western tourists wait for further treatment after being given first aid at Phuket International Hospital in Phuket.

An injured Swedish tourist Gerdh Vall, whose husband and a daughter are missing after a tidal wave hit the beach, sits in shock while waiting for medical treatment at Phuket international hospital in Phuket.

[anonymoussierra]

help (Czy ktorys z was moglby to przetlumaczyc)Wesolych Swiat
http://info.onet.pl/1029027,12,1,0,120,686,item.html
Thank you Dzieki

[theophilusscribe]

[anonymoussierra]

G-D help that person Thank you