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Posted on 12/26/2004 11:08:49 AM PST by anonymoussierra
More than 9,500 people have been killed across southern Asia in massive sea surges triggered by the strongest earthquake in the world for 40 years.
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 4,100 died in Indonesia, 3,200 in Sri Lanka and 2,000 in India.
Casualty figures are rising over a wide area, including tourist resorts on Thailand packed with holidaymakers.
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 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.
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.
Jayanti Lakshmi, 70, had gone shopping with his daughter-in-law in Cuddalore in southern India, only to return to find her son and twin grandsons dead in their hut.
"I wish I had died instead of the others, my daughter-in-law would have a life. I can't bear to watch her pain," he said.
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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I still can not find out anything about our base in Deigo Garcia (just off the tip of India).
oops, spelling correction = Diego Garcia
Yahoo News now says the death toll is nearing 12,000. This is an enormous tragedy.
"I still can not find out anything about our base in Deigo Garcia (just off the tip of India)."
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Prayers for the survivors and the victims.
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If Deigo Garcia is in deep water, then the tidal wave would be low and wide, hardly noticable.
Carolyn
Powerful Tremor Jolts Bangladesh
Sunday, December 26, 2004
DHAKA, Bangladesh — A powerful earthquake (search) jolted a wide area of Bangladesh on Sunday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, news reports and weather officials said.
The magnitude 7.36 tremor struck the southern port city of Chittagong, according to a statement by the Bangladesh Meteorological Department said. Bangladesh (search) lacks equipment to determine the epicenter of the quake.
Media reports said the quake was felt in the central, southern and western parts of the country, including the capital Dhaka.
Big quakes are rare in Bangladesh, a delta nation of 140 million people in South Asia.
All of what you said plus, DG is the major supply depot for the Iraq war. In addition, It is the home port for the submarine Los Angles.
"I still can not find out anything about our base in Deigo Garcia (just off the tip of India)."
I have been wondering the same thing since I read about the tsumanis. I believe Diego Garcia would be somewhat South of the Maldives(they were hit)....just below the equator.
I spent some time there in 1974 while in the USN. Then the highest point above sea level was proably less than 20 feet. It is just a U shaped coral atol. If a tidal wave hit it, it would deluge the entire atoll.
Thanks for the information....Isn't there a freeper in this area doing mission work?
Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory is located at 7 Degrees South Latitude, off the tip of India. Diego Garcia is exclusively a military reservation located on a small host country atoll in the Chagos Archipelago. The heavily vegetated island has an area of 6,720 acres. The average elevation is four feet above sea level. The maximum elevation is 22 feet. This island is horseshoe shaped with a perimeter of approximately 40 miles. The enclosed lagoon is 6 1/2 miles wide and 13 miles long.
Diego Garcia is a living coral atoll, the coral reefs and island are made up of trillions of living organisms. Once an ancient volcano, all that is left is the atoll surrounding a central lagoon. Thanks to its tropical location and heavy rainfall, the island is heavily vegetated with coconut palm and ironwood trees.
From the air, Diego Garcia takes on the rough outline of a footprint on the ocean surface -- thus its nickname "Footprint of Freedom". The island stretches 15 miles, north to south, and about 35 miles from tip to tip of its horseshoe shape. The interior lagoon is 13 miles in length and 6.5 miles at its widest point. The island has an area of 6,720 acres (roughly 10.5 square miles) with an average natural elevation of four feet above sea level. Lagoon depths vary from 60 to 100 feet with coral heads in all areas.
It's actually almost certainly bogus;
Bangladesh even admitted they don't have an actual seismic network.
It was either the main big quake off Sumatra, or one of the aftershocks of that quake in the Andaman Islands. No actual quake in Bangladesh.
"Thanks for the information....Isn't there a freeper in this area doing mission work?" I do not know America friend thank you
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I was looking at a map of DG and it seems the base itself and the housing is on the western side of the atoll ring. The tsunami would have come from the east. Perhaps it was broken up or deflected by the east side of the Atoll and the lagoon.
BBC News
" At-a-glance: Countries hit"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/4126019.stm
INDONESIA
Epicentre of earthquake off the western island of Sumatra
Dozens of buildings destroyed in the initial quake before a huge wall of water, up to 10m high in places, hit the provinces of Aceh and North Sumatra
Coastal towns and villages, and the resort island of Nias, swamped
SRI LANKA
Wide stretch of the eastern coastline - from Jaffna in the north to the popular tourist beaches in the south - devastated
Districts of Muttur and Trincomalee reportedly inundated by waves as high as 6m
Port in the capital, Colombo, shut by flash floods
More than a million people have been forced from their homes, officials say
INDIA
More than 2000km (1243 miles) of southern coast swamped by tidal waves, including states of Tamil Nadu - whose capital, Madras, was particularly badly hit - Andhra Pradesh, and Kerala, as well as federally administered territory of Pondicherry
Vast swathes of countryside submerged
Heavy damage is also reported in the Andaman and Nicobar islands
THAILAND
Western coast of southern Thailand badly affected, including Phuket and Phi Phi islands and mainland resorts of Krabi and Phang Nga
MALDIVES
High waves and floods inundate islands
Large areas of the capital, Male, left under water and some low lying islands abandoned
Some of the country's 200 islands cannot be contacted
MALAYSIA
People reported to have been swept away from beaches near the northern island of Penang and others are said to have died in Kedah state
SOMALIA
Northern Somali coastline, more than 6,000 km (3,728 miles) from the epicentre, is reported affected
Wave hits town of Garacad in central Somalia, reportedly drowning several people and capsizing fishing boats
BURMA
The south-eastern coast is reported to have been struck by a huge wave
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