9.0-2004, Pictures Posted

FUCK.....huge tidal waves r hittin our east coast and already its smashed through Indonesia, Bangladesh and several SE Asia countries......
news says the waves r headed to my city now......MY FUCKING SHIT ...

Tidal waves and tremors hit Asia
Huge casualties are being reported following tidal waves and earth tremors in countries across southern and eastern Asia.

Large tidal waves striking coastal parts of Sri Lanka have reportedly killed at least 150 people.

Earlier, a massive earthquake, said to measure 8.5, hit Indonesia's Sumatra island at roughly 0800 local time.

Earth tremors have also been reported in Bangladesh, while tourist resorts in Thailand have been hit by high tides.

After the Indonesian quake, panicked people reportedly fled their homes in the towns of Medan and Banda Aceh, the capitals of two of Sumatra's provinces.

The US Geological Survey measured the quake at 8.5 magnitude.

Indonesia's geological position - along the Pacific "Ring of Fire" - makes it prone to earthquakes and volcanoes.

Electricity and telephone networks in the area have stopped working, making it difficult to confirm the extent of the damage, the BBC's Rachel Harvey in Jakarta reports.

Ground shaking

Indonesia's worst-hit region appears to be Aceh, a strife-torn province on Sumatra's northern-most tip which has seen heavy clashes between government soldiers and separatist rebels.

Several houses in the towns of Banda Aceh and Lhokseumawe are said to have been damaged or washed away in flash floods.

A witness interviewed by a local radio station reported seeing nine bodies in Banda Aceh, where part of the town's largest hotel is said to have collapsed.

"The ground was shaking for a long time," another witness told the radio station.

The impact of the earthquake has been recorded as far afield as the Thai capital, Bangkok, and Singapore.

In November, 29 people died when an earthquake struck Indonesia's eastern province of Papua.

Nine Reportedly Killed in Indonesian Quake

50 minutes ago

World - AP Asia

JAKARTA, Indonesia - An extremely powerful earthquake rocked northern Indonesia Sunday, and radio reports said nine people were killed as some buildings collapsed and large waves flooded coastal areas.



The U.S. Geological Survey (news - web sites) said a magnitude-8.5 quake, capable of massive damage, struck at 8 a.m. about 100 miles off the west coast of Sumatra. The survey said it upgraded its initial report of 8.1 following further analysis. But Indonesian seismologists put the magnitude at 6.4 and there was no way to immediately clarify the discrepancy.

Witnesses told Jakarta's el-Shinta radio station that nine people were killed in the northernmost province of Aceh, and several shops and small buildings had collapsed. But telephone and most communication links to the region were out and there was no immediate way to confirm the casualty and damage reports.

"The ground was shaking for a long time," resident Yayan Zamzani told the station. "It must be the strongest earthquake in the last 15 years."

Residents in the provincial capital, Banda Aceh, 1,000 miles northwest of Jakarta, and others in Lhokseumawe, a city about 125 miles to the southeast, told the radio station that large waves had hit coastal regions.

An Associated Press reporter in Lhokseumawe said several houses had been damaged and that water levels on main streets in the town had reached three feet. At least one house had been swept away and residents were fleeing to higher ground, he said.

Indonesia, a country of 17,000 islands, is prone to seismic upheaval because of its location on the margins of tectonic plates that make up the so-called the "Ring of Fire" around the Pacific Ocean basin.

The quake was also felt in neighboring Thailand and Malaysia. No major damage was reported in those two countries.

The quake struck just three days after an 8.1 quake struck the ocean floor between Australia and Antarctica, causing buildings to shake hundreds of miles away but no serious damage or injury.

Quakes reaching a magnitude 8 are very rare. A quake registering magnitude 8 rocked Japan's northern island of Hokkaido on Sept. 25, 2003, injuring nearly 600 people. An 8.4 magnitude tremor that stuck off the coast of Peru on June 23, 2001, killed 74.

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wow stay safe man

Asia quake leaves many feared dead
Tidal waves hit Sri Lanka, Thailand

Sunday, December 26, 2004 Posted: 12:29 AM EST (0529 GMT)

(CNN) -- Many people are feared dead after the largest earthquake to shake the planet in nearly 40 years jolted Southeast Asia Sunday.

The quake prompted a series of powerful aftershocks and tidal waves in Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia's Sumatra Island, according to the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center.

Police say 10 people are feared dead after massive tidal waves struck Sri Lanka, The Associated Press reported.

In Indonesia, nine pople are reported dead, and in Thailand, an official said four tourists were killed in the southern tourist resort of Phuket as a result of the quake.

The initial quake, measuring 8.5 in magnitude, struck off the western coast of Sumatra around 7 a.m. local time (7 p.m. ET) and was followed by at least six moderate to strong aftershocks in the following hours.

The 8.5 quake is the strongest temblor to hit since 1965, according to geophysicist Julie Martinez with the NEIC, which monitors worldwide earthquakes.

In Indonesia's restive Aceh province, nine people died in a flash flood following the earthquake, local radio reported.

"I saw four bodies of kids and five bodies of adults," one resident identified as Mustofa told El Shinta radio, agencies reported.

In Thailand it wasn't clear how the tourists, who were on a popular Phuket beach, died, said Sorat Susaeng, of the Narenthorn Center of the Public Health Ministry, AP reported.

The center also reported that people were swept off a Phuket beach by tidal waves surging as high as five meters (16 feet) after the earthquake hit near the Sumatra. It wasn't clear if the people swept off the beach were the people who died.

Thousands of people fled their homes in the Aceh provincial capital Banda Aceh when the tremor struck, the official Antara news agency said.

Residents in North Sumatra's capital, Medan, reported a strong tremor that caused panic among residents.

"It was quite strong. We ran out of our houses but we're now back inside," said one resident.

The tremor could be felt as far away as Singapore and India.

An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale rattled Indonesia's eastern Papua province in November, killing 29 people in the coastal town of Nabire.

Indonesia, an archipelago of 17,000 islands, lies along the Pacific Ring of Fire where plate boundaries intersect and volcanoes regularly erupt.

So... how's the weather over there?

joking joking joking, I hope you and everyone else over there is ok

So... how's the weather over there?

joking joking joking, I hope you and everyone else over there is ok

its fine here....I live in the West Coast (COLOMBO) so urmm Im not gonna get the full effect....but they except some minor flooding to occur here sooner or later cause the Quake is movin to a wider radius hour by hour.

It might hit Western Aussie if worse comes to worse.

So... how's the weather over there?

joking joking joking, I hope you and everyone else over there is ok

its fine here....I live in the West Coast (COLOMBO) so urmm Im not gonna get the full effect....but they except some minor flooding to occur here sooner or later cause the Quake is movin to a wider radius hour by hour.

It might hit Western Aussie if worse comes to worse.

That'd be interesting, I live in South Australia and apparentely whatever weather they get in Western Australia is pretty much guaranteed to come down here a few days after.

Woah, tidal waves...

Welp, hate to be you.

Kidding, kidding, hehe. What jae said etc.

well the death toll is around 1500 now and it keeps rising by 300 odd by the hour ...

India's estimated 1000 dead.....and abt 100 dead from each of the other countries affected except Maldives where its around 8 to 10....

but this is sea water, it'll kill off the trees and soil and rust cars, bikes and weather houses....the damage will be irreversible.

This is one of the saddest days in our history.....and for SE Asia and the whole world.

Plus the aftershocks are yet to arrive.....I know thats gonna take more lives once they arrive specially here since we arent ready for any natural disasters due to a history of no disasters.

The aftershocks will be a pain in the ass since we don't really know when their coming, a day or two or maybe a week...
I imagine it will be hard to stay alert for more than a week when you know that it's coming but now when.

I hope you'll be alright and stay safe
Also good luck to everyone over there.

Wow, that truly sucks ass.

It's all over the news here in AUS.

Wow, that truly sucks ass.

It's all over the news here in AUS.

It is ?
I'm gonna go watch Sky News then

Damn thats some terrible stuff, I feel for ya Najera.

theirs been 14 after shocks....now the lakes r riding....that could mean trouble for me....it might lead to mass flooding in Colombo(our capital)...

man its so sad to see not only Sri Lankans but Indians, Bangladeshi's, Thai's, Indonesians and even some Maldives to loose their lives....so many Women and Children have died.....I have a feelin the death toll will rise to around 5000....because theirs countless amounts of bodies in the ocean.

So many tourists are likely dead too....so this is an event that could affect the world and not only this region.

Ppl get ready, the end of the world could be near.......DONT POLLUTE and DESTROY OUR ATMOSPHERE !!!

crap, hope it doesnt reach all the way here

Stay safe!!!

Apparently this is the biggest earthquake in 40 years.

The biggest earthquake ever was here in Chile. It was like 9.6 or something. But it was a loooong time ago.

Najira, I hope you're OK and all your family and friends.

RIP all involved.

the death toll is over 10,000 in SL alone.....6500 in India....4300 in Indonesia....550 odd in Thailand and around 70 in Maldives....even ppl in Somalia have been killed by the dead waves.

What a sad event to end the year.

The death toll will rise enormously what epidemics and the water clears......

around 1000 tourists are estimated to be killed......the whole world will be mourning this tragic event.

I think they said on the news that four Australians had died too . Could you imagine if this had happened in the USA? The amount of media attention would be unbelievable.

I think they said on the news that four Australians had died too . Could you imagine if this had happened in the USA? The amount of media attention would be unbelievable.

yeh it'll be titled as "the day the WORLD flooded"

no offense to americans but its what always happens...if its a incident in America it means its the whole WORLD that suffered.

I mean even when 5 ppl die in a twister.....its like Breaking News for 3 days.

But hey this is not the time for fighting....so RIP.

Wow, I live in California. My Regards to you people. But down here in California we get the Quake's but not where I live...

damn this is so messed up....Sri Lanka as a country seems to be ruined now. The Death Toll is 22,000 over nine countries.

Anyways, i'm here in WA, nothing is happening here as far as tsunami's and quakes go.

RIP to all souls lost.

Stay safe man, nothing more important than that.

Damn this is bad .

Sri Lanka: 13,000 dead
Indonesia: 4,500 dead
India: 3,500 dead
Thailand: 866 dead
Maldives: 52 dead
Malaysia: 44 dead
Burma: 30 dead
Bangladesh: 2 dead

There you go, and their a reports of 1 to 3 deaths in Somalia and Kenya and flooding has begun in coastal regions of Oman.

As Ive said, Im safe so dont worry about me....but I know this sounds really preachy but try donate something if you can.

Here are some places you can go donate your old clothes to at least.
Care International
International Federation of the Red Cross
Medecins Sans Frontieres
Oxfam
Save The Children
Unicef
World Vision