[Jhensy]

That second picture, of the tidal wave about to engulf the fleeing people, is fraudulent. It is from an earlier, much less serious event some years back.

This pic made the rounds of newsroom picture-servers worldwide two days ago, and has been debunked.

[Jeff Head]

Hadn't heard that, just saw it on an Asian news site that indicated it was a part of the Tsunami.

Will check it out for myself now. Thanks for the info.

[Jeff Head]

In fact, on that site, there were several pictures of the event dexcribed as the surge hitting one of the towns which I saved to disk...I will include the others, taken from a further away perspective.