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

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[edmond246]

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

[Types_with_Fist]

I hate to say this but the way the death toll is going up by the end it may well reach over 100,000.

Many are also estimating the toll will double due to disease.

[Baraonda]

Too many young people in the thread.

[Conspiracy Guy]

colinhester gave the general link at #2. I linked to the flood in China that killed 900,000.

[BJClinton]

Summary: Sri Lanka Tsunami Train Victims

QUEEN OF THE SEA: Sri Lanka officials say 1,000 tickets were sold for an excursion Sunday from the capital, Colombo, to beach resorts on the train known as "Samudradevi," or "Queen of the Sea."

TRAGEDY STRIKES: The train was swept off the track by Sunday's tsunami.

AFTERMATH: More than 800 people were killed; no relatives claimed 204 of the bodies, so they were buried in a mass grave along the railway line. "This was the only thing we could do," said Venerable Baddegama Samitha, a Buddhist monk and former parliamentarian. "The bodies were rotting. We gave them a decent burial."

[Cheetah1]

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AmeriCares is preparing emergency relief flights that will focus on bringing medicines and medical supplies, water purification treatments and other types of assistance to the affected areas. Reports indicate that more than 50,000 people have been killed by powerful tsunamis caused by a 9.0 earthquake near Sumatra. Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India have the greatest number of casualties, and the death toll is expected to grow even higher.

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Emergency: Earthquake in South Asia
December 27, 2004 In response to the earthquake and tsunamis that have devastated parts of South Asia over the past weekend, Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is preparing to provide emergency assistance to people affected by the disaster. MSF is readying a full charter of relief supplies for the area of Indonesia closest to the epicentre of the earthquake.


In addition, MSF medical teams are on the ground in Sri Lanka, Thailand, India, Malaysia, Bangladesh, and Myanmar assessing emergency needs and offering assistance. MSF field teams in all countries where MSF is present, including Somalia and Kenya, are also investigating damage from the disaster.

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[Sola Veritas]

"one of the first outbreaks of Islamic-inspired killings anywhere."

Considering that Indonesia is another hotbed of Islamic terrorists. This may be a result. They probably won't notice all the money and aid we send. Their propogandists will probably say that Allah was punishing the region for not helping kill more infidels from the West.

Trully sad if a natural disaster leads to more war.

[Sola Veritas]

"a Buddhist monk and former parliamentarian."

I thought the predominate religon in Sri Lanka was Hindu? I didn't realize there were any real number of Buddists there. Can anyone here give the breakdown, by affected country, of religons and there makeup of the population?

Hindu
Isamalic
Buddist
Christian
Other

[Stentor]

So please people, learn some history!

Have you always been this annoying?

[Kurt_D]

Well, if you take body count as your parameter, then this Tsunami won't be the "biggest" natural disaster in the past 100 yrs. But think about the economic repercussions for countries like Sri Lanka and Thailand. Billions (US$)lost because of the collapse of the tourism and travel industry.

[finnman69]

The planet's deadliest earthquake of the century, by far, was a magnitude 8.0 that struck Tianjin (formerly Tangshan), China, on July 27, 1976. The official casualty figure issued by the Chinese government was 255,000, but unofficial estimates of the death toll were as high as 655,000. The most destructive U.S. earthquake was the Great San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906. Though its magnitude was 7.7, and the energy less than 1/30th the energy released by the 1964 Alaska event, the San Francisco earthquake and resulting fires caused an estimated 3,000 deaths and $524 million in property loss.

China and Bangladesh have been devastated repeatedly by floods Bangladesh lost 300,000 people in November 1970 and more than 130,000 in April 1991, from cyclone-induced flooding, and the massive flooding of the Yangtze River in China in 1931 caused more than 3 million deaths from flooding and starvation.

If you go further back.

January 23, 1556 China, Shansi Earthquake 830,000


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.

[glock rocks]

More than 200 000 dead in the earthquake in Tokyo (Edo) in the 1920s...

So please people, learn some history!

Did it occur to you that some people read threads like this to learn history? So do you come to teach, learn, or disrupt?

[Baraonda]

"And the DUmmies are all over our President for still going on vacation..."

The president, I think, is not on vacation.

[Mr. Lucky]

Too late.

Dan Rather claimed last night, I think, that private experts blamed the severity of the tsunami on global warming. Of course, the private experts weren't named and no effort whatever was made to support the thoroughly idiotic assertion.

Did anyone else hear it? ( The question assumes that anyone else was listening to Dan Rather, for which I apologize. )

[scannell]

1556 Shansi China Earthquake 830,000 Mag 8

1976 Tangshan, China 255,000 (official) probably 655,000 7.5 mag earthquake

1138 Aleppo, syria 230,000 mag 7.9 earthquake

More informationa at: http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eqlists/eqsmosde.html

[yooper]

"Anyone know what the highest death toll for a natural disater was in the past 100 yrs?"

IIRC, an earthquake in China killed almost 500,000 (yes, 500,000) people sometime during the 1970's. Can anyone confirm my memory?

[T. P. Pole]

Dan Rather claimed last night, I think, that private experts blamed the severity of the tsunami on global warming. Of course, the private experts weren't named and no effort whatever was made to support the thoroughly idiotic assertion.

I didn't hear this (I don't watch news, for the most part), but I can speculate on the reasoning. You see, global warming is causing the sea level to rise, and that additional inch in average water level made the tsunami an inch taller and therefore go inland an inch further. Certanly this was caused by Bush.

[Types_with_Fist]

Did it occur to you that some people read threads like this to learn history?

Like me, I guess. On another thread on this topic I pondered about this being one of the deadliest disasters in history. Within minutes I was afforded a link to a list by another FReeper.

In fact, this may turn out to be one of the deadliest but, apparently, not THE deadliest ever.

Just about any time I want to know more about something I can find the answer here...:-)

[IonImplantGuru]

Some say this will be the biggest humanitarian effort in the history of the world. Anyone know what the highest death toll for a natural disater was in the past 100 yrs?

I don't know if it was the highest, but 3 - 5 million Chinese souls were lost in 1931 Yangtze River flood. If you consider flu to be a 'natural disaster' then the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918 - 1919 had a toll of 20 - 40 million lives.

[LenS]

July 28th, 1976: A 7.8 Earthquake in Tangshan, China killed 240,000 people (other estimates went up to a half million). The city was not known to be on a fault line so construction wasn't done to a higher level. 85% of the buildings in the city were destroyed. Worse, the quake occurred at 4 AM local time so a city of million inhabitants was destroyed in it's sleep leaving most of the population buried alive. Think of last year's Iranian quake (31,000 dead) but in a vastly bigger metropolitan city.

[fanfan]

And the DUmmies are all over our President for still going on vacation...

You mean it isn't his fault this time?