26 December 2004

Surf's Up

Great Caesar's ghost.

More than 9,500 people have been killed across southern Asia in massive sea surges triggered by the strongest earthquake in the world for 40 years.

The 8.9 magnitude quake struck under the sea near Aceh in north Indonesia, generating a wall of water that sped across thousands of kilometres of sea.

More than 4,100 died in Indonesia, 3,200 in Sri Lanka and 2,000 in India.

Casualty figures are rising over a wide area, including tourist resorts on Thailand packed with holidaymakers.

Wow. Just... Wow. For me, the irony of this is that the current death toll from this earthquake/tsunami are about one third the death toll of that earthquake in Bam, Iran one year ago. I couldn't find the magnitude of that earthquake. At any rate, this is a horrible disaster, and I wish the people of these nations godspeed in putting things back together.

UPDATE: CNN.com is reporting that the death toll is up to at least eleven thousand.

UPDATE: Fox News is reporting that the death toll is up to at least twenty-two thousand.

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home