Tsunami Pictures (most recent)

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[stlnative]

Survivors huddle in clearings without food or shelter above the water-damage line all along the tsunami-ravaged coast of Indonesia's Aceh province, and corpses float miles out to sea. A week after giant waves swamped parts of the provincial capital, Banda Aceh, on the northern tip of Sumatra island, the water is only just beginning to drain off to reveal the full extent of the horrific destruction and yet more bodies to count. This photo shows an aerial view of Meulaboh town on January 1, 2005, following recent quake-triggered tidal waves. (Stringer/Indonesia/Reuters)

An aerial view of the countryside south of Banda Aceh, Sumatra on January 1, 2005. HS-2, embarked aboard USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) is transporting supplies, bringing in disaster relief teams and supporting humanitarian airlifts to Tsunami-stricken coastal regions. The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group is currently operating in the Indian Ocean off the waters of Indonesia and Thailand. Picture taken January 1, 2005. (U.S. Navy (news - web sites)/Patrick M. Bonafede via Reuters - Handout)

A young Indian tsunami victim cries while his mother shouts to make her way to reach the back of a truck from where relief goods are being distributed at an aid center in Cuddalore, some 185 kms of Madras.(AFP/Emmanuel Dunand)

Relatives of tsunami victims look at a board where photographs of missing people are displayed at Phuket Town on the Thai holiday island of Phuket.(AFP/DDP/Johannes Simon)

A Indian woman tries to salvage palm leave matts from the ruins of her house, in the tsunami-devastated Karaikalmede fishing village, some 325 kms south of Madras.(AFP/Sebastian D'Souza)

A sign above the scoreboard at the Sydney Cricket Ground shows the progress of a fundraising appeal for tsunami victims during the third Pakistan versus Australia cricket test January 3, 2005. The appeal's goal to raise A$100,000 ($78,000) over the five days of the test got a healthy start after organisers indicated about A$73,000 ($57,000) was raised on the first day. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne

Thai and international volunteers are cleansed near corpses of tsunami victims, covered with dry ice, at a makeshift morgue in a temple at Khao Lak, Thailand, January 2, 2005. Starving people besieged helicopters carrying the first aid to remote Indonesian towns on Sunday as frustration grew at the slowness of help a week after tsunamis devastated Indian Ocean coastlines. REUTERS

Indonesian refugees gather under an approaching helicopter to receive food and supplies, on January 1, 2005. Starving people besieged helicopters carrying the first aid to remote Indonesian towns on January 2, 2005 as frustration grew at the slowness of help a week after tsunamis devastated Indian Ocean coastlines. The United Nations (news - web sites) said 1.8 million victims needed food -- but that it could be two more weeks before some communities were reached, giving dehydration, disease and hunger time to add to a disaster that has claimed at least 129,817 lives. Photo by Reuters (Handout)

An Acehnese girl eats while staying at a makeshift refugee camp in Banda Aceh, on the northern part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on January 2, 2005. A week after being swamped by a massive tsunami, water is only just beginning to drain off parts of Aceh's provincial capital, revealing the full extent of the horrific destruction, and yet more bodies to count. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

A village near the coast of Sumatra lays in ruin after the tsunami swept through and devastated the area, in Indonesia January 2, 2005. Helicopters assigned to CVW-2 and Sailors from Abraham Lincoln are conducting humanitarian operations in the wake of the tsunami that struck South East Asia. U.S. and Indonesian military helicopters were swarmed by starving villagers as flight crews threw out boxes of bottled water and food. A week after giant waves swamped parts of Indonesia the water is only just beginning to drain away to reveal the full extent of the horrific destruction and yet more bodies to count. (Reuters - Handout)

The ruins : An Indian tsunami victim, who lost her 12-year old son in the natural disaster, cries over the ruins of her house in front of a year-old goodwill message painted on a survivng wall at a fishing village in Cuddalore, some 185kms south of Madras. (AFP/Emmanuel Dunand)

[stlnative]

Will post more pictures as I get through them!

[KMC1]

Thanks for posting these - this is awefully tough stuff to deal with...
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[Billthedrill]

BTT. Thank God for the "evil" military - in two weeks the UN will be feeding corpses.

[Ciexyz]

Good Lord, hopefully those area won't have to wait two more weeks to get food shipments!

And it's sobering to remember that as the water drains off the land, more bodies are exposed.

[deport]

A week after giant waves swamped parts of Indonesia the water is only just beginning to drain away to reveal the full extent of the horrific destruction and yet more bodies to count. (Reuters - Handout)

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What is holding the water inland?.... The ocean hasn't risen and stayed that high has it?

How far inland has the waves/water actually penetrated?...

[tutstar]

poing

[Strategerist]

A lot of the coastal land on Sumatra probably has actually sunk several feet.

That's how the old tsunamis in Washington and Oregon were found; forests where the trees had been killed by saltwater 300 years ago.

[isthisnickcool]

Miles.

[diamond6]

May I ask a question? How far did these tidal waves go inland?

[diamond6]

Oh! Never mind, someone else already answered my question.

[RepublicanReptile]

PING

[Chode]

i'm pretty sure it's a volcanic island, there is solid rock under the sand, how far down i'm not sure, but it will take a while for what water isn't evaporated off to travel down and out to the ocean if it even can get there

[WIladyconservative]

You guys are the best at answering questions like the one I'm about to ask (can't think of anywhere else better to ask it).

Do you think there might be satellite images of the actual birth of the tsunamis? What would it look like? If the sea floor dropped 6 meters (or was it feet?) would there be a corresponding reaction on the ocean surface and could that have been caught by sattelites?

[Theresawithanh]

Thanks for posting these. It's sobering to realize that the full extent of the damage will come when the waters all recede.

[stlnative]

American Navy flight crewsmen and medical personals carry an injured evacuee from Sampo, Aceh province for further treatment in Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province in northwestern Indonesia Sunday Jan. 2, 2005. The US has conducted its largest relief operation since Vietnam war following the earthquake-triggered Tsunami last week that killed more than 80,000 people in Indonesia alone and soared to 150,000 across Asia and Africa. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)


Sangeeta, a mother of three boys, looks down on her eldest son, Dinakaran, seated, and the dog that saved his life, Selvakumar Sunday, Jan. 2, 2005. Sangeeta could only carry two of her boys and had to leave Dinakaran to fend for himself when a tsunami crashed into their village on Dec. 26, 2004. Selvakumar pulled Dinakaran out of the family hut and nipped and nudged him up a hill to safety. (AP Photo/Chris Tomlinson )


Twisted tracks : A man walks across railway tracks, twisted by the force of the tidal waves near the village of Kalamulla , 40 km from Colombo, southwestern Sri Lanka. (AFP/Tatyana Makeyeva)


Relief workers unload crates of bottled water at the Car Nicobar airbase on January 2, 2005. The United States may eventually spend billions of dollars to help Asia recover from last week's devastating tsunami, a leading Republican U.S. senator said as the Bush administration battled criticism it had been slow to respond. The $350 million in aid pledged so far by President Bush (news - web sites) represents the entire U.S. foreign disaster assistance budget, and Congress will work to pass emergency legislation to go 'well beyond' that figure, said U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar (news, bio, voting record), an Indiana Republican and head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Photo by Altaf Hussain/Reuters


Smallest victims : A young Indian tsunami victim sits at a relief shelter after her family's home was swept away by tidal waves in Cuddalore, some 185kms south of Madras. (AFP/Emmanuel Dunand)


A Sri Lankan man walks around the upstairs of his wrecked house after visiting his village for the first time since it was smashed by last week's massive tsunami Sunday Jan. 2, 2005 in Mulaitivu in the rebel controlled North of Sri lanka. A few dozen villagers returned to their homes to inspect the damage and to try to find important papers and sentimental items like photos.(AP Photo/Ed Wray)


Christian Nicobarese tribals in India's tsunami hit remote Andaman and Nicobar archipelago participate in a special mass at a relief camp in Car Nicobar January 2, 2005. India raised the number of people killed or feared killed in last week's tsunami to 14,488 on Sunday, up by more than 1,700 since the previous evening's estimate. REUTERS/Altaf Hussain


An aerial view of the eroded shore line at Hut Bay on the Little Andaman island in India's tsunami hit remote Andaman and Nicobar archipelago, January 2, 2005. India raised the number of people killed or feared killed in last week's tsunami to 14,488 on Sunday, up by more than 1,700 since the previous evening's estimate. REUTERS/Altaf Hussain

[Blood of Tyrants]

Not to be picky or to lessen their plight, but while the people are no doubt hungry, they are a long way from starvation. The more immediate concern is to get them medicine and clean water.

[TAquinas]

A couple of hundred yards.

[GVnana]

The United States Military always saves more lives than it takes.

[isthisnickcool]

There can also be a loss of coastline. Instantly. The force of the water coming in strips the soil away coming inbound then carries it away as it goes out. The same kind of thing happens when a hurricane hits our Texas coast. But nothing like this. The scale of what happened and the force it brought is almost impossible to imagine.

[hophead]

"Do you think there might be satellite images of the actual birth of the tsunamis?"

From what I have read, these type of waves cannot be seen in open ocean. Only when they reach shallower water do they show up.