Author Topic: 3000 Dead in World's Largest Quake in 40 Years (Read 10179 times)

c914 · **Reply #60 on:** December 28, 2004, 11:58:58 am

http://www.nbc10.com/slideshow/4028629/detail.html?qs=;s=12;w=320

aldo_14 · **Reply #61 on:** December 28, 2004, 12:01:17 pm

>59,000 dead, with thousands more missing

The title of this thread seems like hopeless optimism......

Goober5000 · **Reply #62 on:** December 28, 2004, 12:08:58 pm

Hmm...

*edits thread title*

WeatherOp · **Reply #63 on:** December 28, 2004, 12:20:08 pm

Us in the U.S. and in Europe need to look really closely at this. If a big earthquake hit the central Atlantic, it would send waves higher than that toward NY City and Boston and places in Europe. I've read

about the coastline along NY City and storm surge. NY's coastline is very shallow, if a Hurricane hit there it would bring storm surge to over 15 feet high. Now think about what a 8.0 earthquake would do. *Thinks of scene from "The Day After Tommorow".

aldo_14 · **Reply #64 on:** December 28, 2004, 12:28:39 pm

The US, Japan etc already have a Tsunami warning system in the Pacific ocean (there's an average of 8 tsunamis a year there - obviously not as severe - the area has heavy seismic activity)

I'm not sure if the atlantic is unstable enough to be a risk; there was a suggestion that a super-tsunami could be cause by a massive landslide from a number of places (this super-tsunami would be powerful enough to wipe the entire east coast of the US, the UK and a great deal of europe off the map), but the likelihood of such an event is disputed (it relies upon a single massive landslide; it's debatable whether this can actually happen).

Marauder · **Reply #65 on:** December 28, 2004, 12:38:21 pm

This is just horrible. At least Thailand's offering free flights out of the country for tourists. And the people who've lost everything except the clothes they wear.

Well guys, don't forget about global warming. If that cap on the North melts, it'll submerge low-lying regions like Florida and Bangladesh...*shudders*

Liberator · **Reply #66 on:** December 28, 2004, 12:43:42 pm

They were talking last night about how the death toll is going to go up to even more obscene levels once the water born diseases like malaria and cholera start spreading.

WeatherOp · **Reply #67 on:** December 28, 2004, 12:46:57 pm

I don't know how much the atlantic is unstable, but earthquakes happen out there, and as far as I know so do volcanos. But, most people don't think about it, same way with huge quakes the hit the Tennesee area back in 1812, changed the flow of rivers.

Ryx · **Reply #68 on:** December 28, 2004, 12:51:44 pm

A classmate was/is in Thailand. I hope she's alright.

aldo_14 · **Reply #69 on:** December 28, 2004, 12:53:13 pm

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Originally posted by WeatherOp
I don't know how much the atlantic is unstable, but earthquakes happen out there, and as far as I know so do volcanos. But, most people don't think about it, same way with huge quakes the hit the Tennesee area back in 1812, changed the flow of rivers.

The Atlantic is apparently a lot more stable than the pacific in particular....apparently there's simply not the potential for the same size of tsunami as in the Indian or Pacific ocean. There's obviously additional danger from landslide-based tsunamis.... either way, there is no Atlantic warning system.

EDIT; apparently the Portugese & Spanish have built a warning system for Western Europe, though.

karajorma · **Reply #70 on:** December 28, 2004, 12:58:05 pm

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Originally posted by WeatherOp
Us in the U.S. and in Europe need to look really closely at this. If a big earthquake hit the central Atlantic, it would send waves higher than that toward NY City and Boston and places in Europe. I've read about the coastline along NY City and storm surge. NY's coastline is very shallow, if a Hurricane hit there it would bring storm surge to over 15 feet high. Now think about what a 8.0 earthquake would do. *Thinks of scene from "The Day After Tommorow".

15 foot waves? You're far more heavily f**ked than that.

Janos · **Reply #71 on:** December 28, 2004, 01:14:13 pm

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Originally posted by aldo_14

The Atlantic is apparently a lot more stable than the pacific in particular....apparently there's simply not the potential for the same size of tsunami as in the Indian or Pacific ocean. There's obviously additional danger from landslide-based tsunamis.... either way, there is no Atlantic warning system.

EDIT; apparently the Portugese & Spanish have built a warning system for Western Europe, though.

Iceland. Eurasian and American tectonic plates are separating.

aldo_14 · **Reply #72 on:** December 28, 2004, 01:20:52 pm

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Originally posted by karajorma

15 foot waves? You're far more heavily f**ked than that.

There's apparently an arguement over how likely that is; some scientists say that such a large landslide would fragment up and hit the water in 'pieces'... I think the analogy was between dropping a brick in a bath, and dropping the same brick broken up into pieces.

Nico · **Reply #73 on:** December 28, 2004, 03:27:21 pm

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Originally posted by Janos

Iceland. Eurasian and American tectonic plates are separating.

Indeed, and that's why we're safe: no frictions, nothing.Iceland is on a sideway and tortuous part of the crack, and it doesn't suffer from earthquakes anyway.

ShadowWolf_IH · **Reply #74 on:** December 28, 2004, 05:22:14 pm

This is unreal.

Clave · **Reply #75 on:** December 28, 2004, 05:45:31 pm

50,000 confirmed, it just keeps coming...

Sri Lanka: 18,706 dead
Indonesia: 27,174 dead
India: 4,371 dead
Thailand: 1,516 dead
Maldives: 52 dead
Malaysia: 44 dead
Burma: 30 dead
Bangladesh: 2 dead
Somalia: 100 dead
Kenya: 1 dead
Seychelles: 3 dead
Tanzania: 10 dead

Stealth · **Reply #76 on:** December 28, 2004, 06:24:28 pm

so what do you think the number's going to end up at?

Stealth · **Reply #77 on:** December 28, 2004, 06:31:12 pm

also, anyone plan on taking any action to personally help the victims? by that i mean, rather than going "OMG that's horrible", actually sending money, or volunteering for the relief efforts?

redmenace · **Reply #78 on:** December 28, 2004, 06:58:14 pm

Um I am thinking about sending a couple hundred dollars my self. I know there are many US organizations taking donations to provide food and clothing.

Liberator · **Reply #79 on:** December 28, 2004, 08:00:22 pm

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Originally posted by Stealth
so what do you think the number's going to end up at?

the shady side of 200,000 at least.

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