2,200 killed in tidal wave

by **Sayntfuu** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 1:34 pm

22,700 is the total right on http://www.drudgereport.com. There are still "many thousands" of people who are missing. The UN has released an epidemic warning for the area since the bodies are already rotting in the streets and beaches. The water supply is shot to hell as well.

This is nasty.

fuu

by **cavalierlwt** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 2:19 pm

It is scary. It's easy to think that we've got Mother Nature beat because we're 'so advanced' but the reality is we are almost as vulnerable as we were a hundred years ago.

by **jnkcrp** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 2:49 pm

20,000,000 years from now.....2 dinosours will sitting around talking about these animals called humans that were whiped out by a huge wave. Ya they looked pretty scary.....Hey look a meteor shower......HERE WE GO AGAIN!

by **[FSU]SkunX** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 6:02 pm

WEll today almost all the news channels in Florida are covering it... outta like 10 news channels 8 are doing a story on it..I'm glad to see that the media does value human life...even if it is a few days late on it.

by **Tour of Duty** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 6:09 pm

Originally posted by [FSU]SkunX
I'm glad to see that the media does value human life...even if it is a few days late on it.

If so, they don't have the right to call themselves NEWS channel, because it isn't something new anymore.
We'll see how they react if 30 Americans got killed

by **EZC** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 7:20 pm

they are already speculating that the quake might have changed the Earths rotation. The quake that hit that big to affect the Earth was 9.2 back in 1964 off the coast of Alaska. makes u think about how long before the next change happens on this planet of ours.

by **Tour of Duty** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 7:25 pm

I am not a scientist, but the chance that an earthquake can change the Earth's rotation, even for a tiny bit, is highly unlikely. The Earth needs an 'outside-damage' for that. Something like a small meteor. Or maybe the gravity of the moon.
Anyway, way too offtopic

by **EZC** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 7:45 pm

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?floc=NW_1-T&oldflok=FF-APO-PLS&idq=/ff/story/0001/20041227/0714759370.htm

most likely u r right. But everyone has theories about global events.

by **Sayntfuu** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 7:50 pm

Jump up and down a few times, you will have changed the earths rotation.

From what I understand all earthquakes change our rotation as they cause waves to form in the mantle which is mostly fluid. The movement of that fluid dampens or hightens rotation.

I am not a scientist though so i could be wrong in this.

fuu

by **LordShard** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 7:58 pm

Enzo Boschi, the head of Italy's National Geophysics Institute, likened the quake's power to detonating a million atomic bombs the size of those dropped on Japan during World War II, and said the shaking was so powerful it even disturbed the Earth's rotation.

by **:UnclSxyPants:** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 9:55 pm

lets see them pin this one on al qaeda

by **Sayntfuu** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 9:58 pm

Quake May Have Altered Earth's Rotation // May have shortened the day by 3 microseconds, said gravity expert Richard Gross of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena... On premise a slab slid into core, Gross said he's done calculations 'to see what effect this (earthquake) should have had.' The result: A day shortened... 'We won't know for weeks,' said a geophysicist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 'So it's a guess, as of now'...

That is the banner on http://www.drudgereport.com

apnews.myway.com

That article right there is about as scarey as I can find. 42,000 dead, over 3,000,000 homeless, and everyone thinks the totals will continue to climb.

fuu

by **Tommy Boy** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 10:41 pm

I heard tonight that the death toll is over 40,000 now...

it is truly incredible...

by **Hash** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 11:22 pm

u know i think this is a result of the earth trying to heal itself after years of pollution and industrialization. I mean just look at all the wacky weather we have been getting lately, diseases are running rampant. And i hear Florida will be mostly a swampland in a decade or so. Don't like being morbid but these are the results of humanity destroying itself, the earth is just trying to fight back.

by **Mugzy** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 11:38 pm

Found a video. This one is not close enough to show anyone getting pulled by the water. I saw another one that did, but out of respect for all that died, I will not post that link.

http://dr.dk/pubs/nyheder/template/lib/wmm.jhtml?mmID=101937&publicationID=1

2,200 killed in tidal wave

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