Posted on 12/28/2004 11:47:11 AM PST by edmond246
Tsunami Death Toll Tops 52,000 --foxnews.com
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Are you sure that is for Indonesia alone?
It was from the same region 34 years ago, according to this website. (The tropical cyclone that struck the Bay of Bengal region, killing half a million)
1755 - Tsunami hit Portugal and killed 60,000. Not sure about the past 100 years though.
That highest death toll from a tsunami number from Guinness Book of World Records has been surpassed by at least twice that number in this disaster.
That event may very well have changed history coming when it did.
Asian Tsunami Relief donations. (Vanity thread list)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1309697/posts?page=25
A list of organizations you can give to help!
"A disaster of Biblical proportions!"
So said FOXnews on TV. I may have misheard. Give me a minute to do some more searching...
So far, however, this is not as bad as when West Pakistan decided to get even with East Pakistan. Several million refugees poured into West Bengal in India.
It's possible that the population relocations between India and Pakistan upon British withdrawal from the region were even worse. Someone who keeps up on the statistics regarding man's inhumanity to man might let us know.
Then, of course, there was WWII and the tens of millions of refugees created in Eastern Europe and Russia!
We might even toss in the arrival of the Belgians in Congo in the last century ~ now that was bad ~ real bad ~ and there weren't even witnesses!
Whoops, almost forgot a couple of others. Joe Stalin and the Ukrainians, and Mao Tse Tung and the Chinese. Yes, those are still #s 1 and 2 ~ but nobody on the left cares so probably they didn't happen.
"Anyone know what the highest death toll for a natural disater was in the past 100 yrs?"
In that area when Krakatoa blew, in the 19th century, it killed about 30,000. I believe this one has made that catastrophe look small.
Like many, I have grown so accustomed to seeing death, etc. on the media, that I am somewhat calloused except when something hits "close to home" like our soldiers dying. However, when I saw the numerous pictures of parents mourning over the dead bodies of their children, it got to me. Can you imagine the death toll if something like this happened on one of our coastal areas?
There was an earthquake in China in the '70s with a final death toll of over 600,000.
holy crow.
The Indonesian vice president estimated that up to 25,000 could be dead on Aceh's western coastlines, bringing the country's potential toll up to 50,000. - FOXNEWS.com
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,142692,00.html
Didn't Bangladesh have some floods in the 80's where hundreds of thousands died?
That was the total for ASIA.
"Didn't Bangladesh have some floods in the 80's where hundreds of thousands died?"
I think so, but I can't remember. It didn't affect my calloused little world. So, I probably didn't notice. Please excuse my self berating, I am feely ashamed about being so apathetic for so long.
The deadliest earthquake in history hit the eastern Mediterranean in July 1201. Approximately 1.1 million people were killed, mostly in Egypt and Syria. This earthquake claimed the most lives of any other natural disaster in recorded history.
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