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To: edmond246

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record_subcategory.asp?subcategoryid=30


2 posted on 12/28/2004 11:50:48 AM PST by colinhester
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To: colinhester

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.


6 posted on 12/28/2004 11:54:22 AM PST by Pyro7480 (Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genitrix.... sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper...)
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To: colinhester

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=49215


11 posted on 12/28/2004 11:55:57 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Pray for the millions of lives disrupted by tsunami.)
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To: colinhester

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).


55 posted on 12/28/2004 1:30:30 PM PST by b4its2late (Sometimes too much to drink isn't enough.)
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To: colinhester
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.

56 posted on 12/28/2004 1:30:59 PM PST by BureaucratusMaximus ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good" - Hillary Clinton)
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