The Great Wave- Sumatra Quake and tsunami of 2004

various FR links | 12-26-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

[backhoe]

 San Diego Based Navy Strike Groups Aid Disaster Victims

 

 U.S. response gives Bush a way to better his image [NYTimes David Sanger bile] -- Let's roll up our sleeves and leave the "imagery" to Hollywoood and the rest of the liberals.

Read this:

 http://orsa.blogspot.com/2004/12/nyt-rouses-itself.html

 

 Critic of American stinginess (Leslie H. Gelb) a former advisor to the Kerry campaign

 

 Bush 'presumes' U.S. warning system is adequate

 

 NYT: Charities -- Tsunami Followed by Another Kind of Flood: U.S. Citizens' Dollars (+ editorial)

 

 Tsunami Could Hit Here, Geologists Say

 

 Attenborough granddaughter dies in tsunami

 

 Jet Li (Lethal Weapon 4) Saves Daghter and Himself from Killer Tsunami

 

Can you spell "Son of Oil for Food Ripoff?"

 UN chief to oversee tsunami relief -- This is all an attempt to make Bush and the U.S. look bad.
Cronies ran to the mics to beat Bush in propaganda of "caring". The media ran stories on Bush and Blair vacations. Now here comes good ol' Kofi OFF OF HIS VACATION so he can micromanage what was begun in his absence.

 The broken U.N.: Kofi's impudence

 

 The Cooling World - Global Cooling --- first printed in Newsweek, 1975

[backhoe]

 

CLAIM: '400,000 DEAD' IN INDONESIA ALONE

 Indonesia Needs Help, Death Toll Expected To Exceed 400,000

 "Does anyone think these numbers are exaggerated? After all, they are now had a 10 fold increase in the number of deaths."
The story quotes a government official saying that a city of 150,000 has virtually disappeared. Another city of 80,000 was wiped out; the figures may indeed be realistic.

 http://drudgereport.com/flash5.htm

 

 Bush 'Undermining UN with Aid Coalition' -- The only good thing that may come out of this horrible disaster is that the UN may self-destruct. We need to help this process by demanding that our representatives initiate action to stop funding the UN, withdraw from the UN and throw them out of the country.

 

 ANNAN TO HOLD MEETING WITH EU NEXT WEEK TO DECIDE HOW TO HELP TSUNAMI DISASTER -- The UN should stick to what they're good at:
"The case has highlighted the apparently rampant sexual exploitation of Congolese girls and women by the UN’s 11,000 peacekeepers and 1,000 civilians at a time when the UN is facing many problems, including the Iraqi “oil-for-food” scandal and accusations of sexual harassment by senior UN staff in Geneva and New York" (Times Online, 12/23/04)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1413501,00.html

 

 France: We're the No. 1 Aid Donor

 

 Christian right's compassion deficit -- The reporter seems unaware that within 24 hours of the catastrophe the president had ordered 12 ships to go to the stricken areas.

 Franklin Graham's Samaritan's Purse was WAY ahead of the pack on calling attention to the genocide in Sudan.

 

 Pray for us in Southeast Asia!

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 Seven Tsunami Videos

 

 Anti-American Tsunami Riders

 

 Tsunami: What is the Best Charity for FReepers Wishing to Make Contributions? (Non-Stingy Vanity)

 

 Fraudulent Charities Use Tsunami Pleas To Prey on Donors

 

 Fraudulent Charities Use Tsunami Pleas To Prey on Donors [make sure you know to whom you're giving]

 

 Salvation Army Accepting Donations for Tsunami Disaster

 

 Mother makes agonising choice in tsunami chaos

 

 Is India underestimating its tsunami dead?

 

 Scandinavia bears European brunt of tsunami

 

U.S. Private Donations already over $100M???

 

 Disturbances in the Earth, The biggest story of 2004 is also the oldest story in the world.

 

 Killer waves, then a day on the beach

 

 Big Surprise: NYT agrees w/ UN's Jan Egland!

 

Oil-for-Food Used for Money Laundering? ( Foxnews ~ Saturday, December 18, 2004 )

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 DoD Tsunami Disaster Relief -- While the dems are whining and sniveling, our military, who are almost alone in Iraq thanks to the cowards of old Europe, move once more into the breech.

 

 Breedlove plant's disaster relief effort of epic proportion (TX firm to help feed tsunami victims)

 

 Bush to Send Delegation to Asian Tsunami Region

 

 U.S. Should Not Help Tsunami Victims

 

 UN Chief Says Tsunami Aid Response Very Good (World Bank , i.e. U.S.), gives 250 million! -- The Pentagon announces we can't afford to build the F-22, but we can send money to foreign nations--most of this aid money will be skimmed by corrupt officials.

 

 Red Cross has lost its way in Bali: aid worker (Where is your money going this time?)

 

 Tsunami enrages Swedish media (calls for resignations of PM, FM)

 

 WORSENED BY WAR: 2 hard-hit areas beset by civil strife

 

 American Generosity is Underappreciated

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 OUR RE$PONSE IS 'INCREDIBLE' (Tsunami)

 

 Photo Gallery: Tsunami,Images from the aftermath

 

 Bush Defends Response to Tsunami Disaster [media driven Bush hate-fest turns ugly]

 

 A Sabbatical Year for the United States [File Under: Proposals, Modest]

 

 Lawyer to W: Cut the galas, help Asia (Bush's Fault for Tsunamis...Again)

 

 Congressman Criticizes Bush Response To Earthquake [Left demands US respond to all world's problems]

 

 Diego Garcia Personnel Safe, Facilities Intact Following Tsunami

 

 Killer waves, then a day on the beach

 

 Donate Online! Just click on the Kettle below!

 

[backhoe]

 The Tsunami, Satellite Images, BEFORE AND AFTER. AMAZING!!

 

 The Power and Deception of The Tsunami Wave (video)

 

 Sri Lanka train survivor describes wall of water

 

 new dim talking point??

 

 Tsunami diplomacy: Indo-US engagement creates new waves in the Indian Ocean

 

 Those who lost so much give all to their foreign guests (Thailand)

 

 Powell, Florida Gov Bush to visit tsunami-hit region

 

 Bush 'Undermining UN with Aid Coalition'

 

 Tsunami must be fault of the US

 

 Worldwide Earthquake Activity in the Last Seven Days -- Just Prior to 9.0 and until Dec 30

 

 Corporations Donate Millions for Quake Aid

 

 Apple's Home Dedicated to Earthquake/Tsunami Relief

 

 MEDIA BASHES BUSH FOR SLOW PRESS CONFERENCE, JIHADISTS KILL HEAD OF CARE AND MEDIA IS SILENT

 

 France Doubles Aid for Asian Disaster

 

 Outracing The Sea, Orphans in His Care -- Here's the original story. Hard to find, and you can't post it to FR. With Little Warning, Director Saves 28 Orphans from Tsunami

 

 Big California Earthquake Long Overdue

 

 Karma Calling, Phone 'Osama Mama' Patty Murray and Ask, "How Much Aid Is Osama Sending?"

 

 NRA alert on UN anti-Gun treaty

 UN's Kofi Annan: For many, small arms pose greater threat than WMDs

disarmament.un.org

GLOBAL GUN GRAB

U.N. vs. Guns: An international gun-control fight

Gun-Ban Shenanigans at the UN

FR KEYWORD: IANSA

Click to download poster in PDF format      Can the UN be redeemed?

[PeriwinkleMinniepaws]

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[backhoe]

  IT'S ABOUT THE TRAGEDY - NOT MORE BUSH-BASHING -- I've been interested in watching them "try" out different attacks, and when they don't catch on, trying another.  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1311032/posts

 Look who's talking about 'stingy'

 

 U.S. firms contribute $80 million

 

 Food airlifted to isolated towns

 

 

WHEN THE EARTH MOVES: Pacific coast's tsunami threat

 

Thousands flee after crackpot alert

 

 W asks Jeb to help

 

 Australians warned tsunami toll could reach hundreds

 

 Sweden update - Foreign office: 3500 Swedes missing in Thailand.

 Asian Tsunami: Trace the Missing

 

 Which son to save?

 

 U.S. Ships, Aircraft, Personnel Converge on Disaster Zone

 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1311019/posts
Kofi and Yawn had that "deer in the headlights" look on their faces.

 

 Public's record £30m response takes charities by surprise

 

 Sri Lankan Families Who Lost Children Taking Tsunami Orphans

 

 Odious tsunami politics (U.N. inserts sizable foot in mouth) -- So they gin up the disaster. They don't beg. They shamelessly DEMAND funding, as they call it. And they're going to pocket most of it, and dole a bit out in country. This is how these people make money. There is no audit, no concern about where the millions are going. No one cares six months after the fact how the money was spent, and specifically on what. They're home free. It's just one big international grift, ghoulishly feeding off the thousands who died in this horrible disaster!

 

 Out of the wreckage

 

 In the absence of God, blame has become our prevailing religion

 

Stingy?

 

 MY WALK AMID ROWS OF DEAD

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 U.S. military team arrives to assess disaster relief efforts

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 Animals sensed tsunami in advance

 

 Only America Does the Heavy Lifting -- while the world whines and complains, the US does the work.

 

KEVIN McCULLOUGH: Blogger's Remorse - (The left's "compassionate" tsunami response)

 

 Powell Will Tour Ravaged Areas With Jeb Bush To Organize Aid

 

 Waves of destruction wash away belief in God's benevolence

 

 Victims' fingers saved to ID them later

 

 No one gives more than U.S. -- President George Bush, also miffed at Egeland's remark, said the U.S.'s $2.4 billion in disaster relief last year was "40% of all relief aid given in the world."

 Where is D.A.R.T. [ 1 ... 5, 6, 7 ]

 

 Clemente Jr. sends aid to tsunami victims in tribute of father

 

 On Asia's Coasts, Progress Destroys Natural Defenses

 

 Israeli relief agency joins disaster response

 

 No one gives more than U.S. (Peter Worthington, Toronto Sune)

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 Additional before and after satellite images of the tsunami impact on Banda Aceh, Indonesia

 

 Catholic Group Pledges $25M Tsunami Relief

 

 More than 4,500 confirmed dead in Thailand, half of them foreigners

[jan in Colorado]

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[johnny7]

These east-asian countries have known about the dangers of a massive tsunami for years. Japan and Hawaii have set up a system for evacuating it's citizens to higher ground.

I heard that they didn't feel that it warranted the cost... and might scare-off tourists.

Just look back to our own Johnstown Flood where greed put off dam improvements to maintain the superb fishing at a resort lake.

[backhoe]

 GAUGING DISASTER: How Scientists and Victims Watched Helplessly

 
Agence France-Presse
Tourists try to rush to safety before the tsunami hit the Hat Rai Lay Beach in Thailand. The water had
receded before the deadly wave struck.

 

 Aussie toll may eclipse Bali (1250 Aussies missing)

 

 Tsunami's Sorrows Will Need More Than Pity (Wonder Land)

 

 Microchips put into 1,000 unidentified bodies (Thailand)

[bboop]

The waves travel at 500 mph. it couldn't have taken long to cross that bit of ocean.

[backhoe]

 Canadian Donors 'Amaze'

 

 The Left and the Tsunami

 

 Tsunami Orphans

 

 Cheap Points (Noonan on Bush-Bashing)

 

 Tsunami Stirring Up Waves Of Sea Serpents

 

 IT'S ABOUT THE TRAGEDY - NOT MORE BUSH-BASHING

 

 Tourists face a moral dilemma

[VOA]

master-list BUMP!

[CyberAnt]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/

This link shows the USGS world map of earthquake activity. The Pacific Rim has really been shaking this year. Living in San Diego .. it's beginning to make me real nervous.

However .. to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord .. so I'm not in despair over what may happen.

[Right Wing Assault]

Energy is NOT measured in watts. Energy is measured in joules. Watts measure power. Power is the rate at which enegy is converted to another form. Therefore, watts are joules per second. A joule is also the same as 1 watt second. You buy energy from electric utilities, not power. We call them "power plants" but they aren't. They are energy conversion plants. You can't buy power. Power just tells how much energy you are using each second (day, month, etc.). Power is to energy as speed is to distance. Power and speed are time rates of change.

Your electric energy usage is measured in kWh (killowatt hours). When converted to watt seconds or joules, we get 1 kWh = 3.6 million joules. Say a US family uses 1000 kWh of energy per month, which comes out to about 3.6 billion joules. IF this quake released 2 x 10^18 joules as someone stated, it could support 50 million US familes for about a year if its energy could all be convert to electrical energy.

[freeperfromnj]

Earlier I was checking the quake sheet link on Drudge. Today alone there were 5 quakes in the Sumatra and Nicobar Island regions: a 6.3, 6.1, 5.6, 5.5 and 5.4