New Death Toll: Indonesia 52,000 in that Country alone

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[edmond246]

Tsunami Death Toll Tops 52,000 --foxnews.com

[foofoopowder]

The magnitude of this and other natural disasters should make it clear to environmentalists, Gore fans, leftist nitwits of all kinds, that by comparison, human activity such as driving cars, spraying to kill harmful insects, and using styrofoam cups is of little consequence to the planet earth. One Mount St. Helens eruption is probably more significant than all the cars in LA for 50 years. Global warming? It's caused by the sun. Duh.

[brazzaville]

Good afternoon.

Astounding!!!

[areafiftyone]

It is also time for the public health authorities to stop worrying about burying the bodies..even in mass graves..but to start burning them..the disease potential is enormous..

I agree. I just read an article that morners in Sri Lanka are digging graves with their bare hands. There is no way there is not going to be any widespread disease if the government is allowing them to do that.

[Rebelbase]

How so?

[ken5050]

also, the stray animals..dogs, and rats..will be digging up the carcasses..

[Almab]

In India they do burn bodies... I am not sure about buddhists by I believe they have no objections... The muslims on the other hand haare against burning bodies...

[BJClinton]

Thousands stranded beyond hope (100,000 people on island near epicenter still unaccounted for)

[JustAnotherSavage]

"We need to get out of the United Nations, by the way."

One more time can't hurt to say that!

I'm so sorry for the tragedy these people face. Entire families were wiped out.

[Gritty]

As awful as this catastrophe is, there needs to be some perspective here.

Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot each usually killed more in a month than will die in this tragedy.

[TheRatHunter]

I'm just waiting for the first lefty to go on TV and blame Bush and global warming for all the lost lives.

[virgil]

This could top the Armenian earthquake. I think it was 57,000 deaths

[monday]

An estimated 900,000 people were killed when the Huang He (Yellow River), Huayan Kou, China, burst its banks in October 1887. ...

When the Tambora volcano in Sumbawa, Indonesia (then the Dutch East Indies) erupted from April 5-10, 1815, 92,000 people were killed.

The highest earthquake death toll in modern times was caused by one that hit Tangshan, China, on July 28, 1976. The official figure of 655,237 deaths

[b4its2late]

Highest Death Toll From A Tsunami
Following an earthquake off the coast of Sanriku, Japan, in 1896, approximately 27,000 people were drowned when a tsunami hit the coast. A wave that struck Shirahama had an amplitude of 38.2 m (125 ft).

[BureaucratusMaximus]

From your link:

HIGHEST DEATH TOLL FROM A FLOOD

An estimated 900,000 people were killed when the Huang He (Yellow River), Huayan Kou, China, burst its banks in October 1887.

Just damn.

[King Prout]

*incredulous whistle*

[antidisestablishment]

Interesting... I just saw this at the bookstore before Christmas and found it interesting. Hope the author is wrong or we could be in for trouble:

Krakatoa; The day the world exploded

The sound of the island's destruction was heard in Australia and India and on islands thousands of miles away. Most significant of all -- in view of today's new political climate -- the eruption helped to trigger in Java a wave of murderous anti-Western militancy among fundamentalist Muslims: one of the first outbreaks of Islamic-inspired killings anywhere.

[Stonewall Jackson]

This quake, on Sept 1, 1923, also sank the partially completed Japanese aircraft carrier Amagi, which would have weighed 41,300 tons.

[Baraonda]

The Great Tangshan Earthquake, 1976

July 27, 1976

China

750,000 deaths

Thanks to Conspiracy Guy's link