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26th December 2004, 04:24 PM
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The WaVes - Tamil Tragedy?
I phoned to my aunt in Jaffna (St. Patrick's Rd / Main Street) today morning to get more information about the desasterous Wave that happened today Dec 26th in the aftermath of the X'mas 2004. She said "I'm not in the mood to talk to you... it is a big desaster... Sorry.. " in an excusing melodical way and quit.
What do you know? Who can provide more information?
www.tamilnet.com
www.lankapage.com
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26th December 2004 04:24 PM
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26th December 2004, 08:44 PM
#2
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Earthquake
BB,
I hope all your relatives are well.
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26th December 2004, 08:45 PM
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Well Bad Boy - 1st I'm real sorry abt what happened in Sri Lanka to your loved ones!! Between 10 am - 11 am (M'sian time), my hubby and son felt the floor sway and my son felt nauseous like a boat swaying!!
The epicentre of the quake is off the coast of Sumatera. Penang has been badly hit with abt 6 deaths reported so far!! Though we felt the tremors along the coast of Peninsula Malaysia, no other casualty has been reported. Surprisingly, the ensuing tsunami has been carried much further into the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal.
There's talk of after-shocks as well!!
I just came back from the beach area just now, the waters are calm as usual. Nothing unusual to report.
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26th December 2004, 08:52 PM
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A lot of the kuppams in Chennai where the poor people live in have been affected badly. Also people who went for a walk in the beach at that time are reported missing. Even in Chennai some buildings were shaking. This is a terrible tragedy
According to the NY times, even the earth's rotation was affected slightly by the quake.
From the New York Times:
``All the planet is vibrating'' from the quake, said Enzo Boschi, the head of Italy's National Geophysics Institute. Speaking on SKY TG24 TV, Boschi said the quake even disturbed the Earth's rotation.
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26th December 2004, 10:24 PM
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Dear Everyone who is affected by this wrath of nature,
Our best wishes and thoughts are with you.
May you find the strength to rise from this tragedy and find peace and comfort!
This is surreal and apocalyptic in a way, "Day after tomorrow" was the first thing that came to my mind for some reason. Why weren't there any warning signs on such a massive earthquake? Or were they not publicized so as to not alarm the people in the Sumatra region?
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26th December 2004, 11:46 PM
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Im just shaken and as cygnus has put it - it's all surreal for me a huge tragedy for all of thamizhnadu
A huge earthquake measuring 8.9 hit the north-west coast of Sumatra island - the center of the quake being in the ocean some 1000-1500 km from the shores of sumatra.
The huge quake produced an explosion equivalent to 32 billion tons of tnt explosives!! according to the BBC.
The quake happened due to the tectonic plate movement and the collision of Indian Ocean continental plate with the Eurasian(Indonesian) Plate.
The collission fissure was more than 1000 KM long and because of this collission Water walls of 10m -30 m were thrown up all along these 1000 KM collission range producing a mind-boggling Tsunami giant killler waves, which then travelled towards the south asian region of srilanka, India, and bangladesh, with a speed of about 900 KMPH to 1000 KMPH.
The waves when neared the shores produced a huge energy with which it hit the Coastline of south asian countires and it was catastrophic and devastating.
In Tamilnadu's coastal region alone - more than 5000 people are already confirmed dead by on the ground estimates(Officail govt. estimates underplay this figure).
It is said that in TN alone the fatality could be over 10,000 people most of them being - poor fisherfolk who live right along the coast.
Moreover, thousands of fisherman who ventured into the sea on sunday morning havent returned and they are feared consumed by the massive waves.
Since Tsunamis are virtually unknown in this region (Tsunamis are more frquent in Pacific region only) - people were absolutely had NO idea of what hit them
The Killer waves hit TN shores at around 8:35-8:45 am and it was all over in about 20-30 mins
Thousands of fisher folk, their children, beach goers, tourists, fishermen in the sea all washed away into the gory death-dance of the sea
The administration of the TN govt. was caught unawares and non-responsive until in the afternoon and the homeless survivors of the poor fisherfolk along coastline were left without any food or shelter till about 3:30 pm in the afternoon - they were all lined up half-fainted in teh platforms of the roads
Meanwhile dead bodies pile up in govt hospitals and private homes and absolute chaos everywhere and no proper medical facilities are available for the wounded and the gravely injured in the melee of running for their life
Dr. Roger Mussan, a seismologist from United Kingdom told on the BBC - that these kinds of Tsunamis do have aftershock effects that is - 2 or 3 more Giant Tidal waves may AGAIN hit south-asia in the next 2 days
The metrological dept. of India has confirmed that more tidal waves MAY be in store for the south indian coast
Orisaa is affected, Andhra is hit badly and Tamilnadu's coastline has been devatstaed and the worst hit
The Indian fatality for this south-south east asian tragedy could be more than 10-15 thousand some say
Srilanka's coast has been completely destroyed from Mullaitivu to tricomalee to polanaruwa to colombo to galle
They are even more worst hit than Tamilnadu
Almost 95% of the southern and wester coast beach restaurants and resorts have been washed away
Tourists to SL have been washed away in 100s we r told and the Capital city colombo too is iundated with its subuurbs like Unatawuna and Galle terribly devastated from the news sources.
The Human Tragedy is unbearable and SL economy has taken a terrible hit
I'm worried about Roshan who is probably living near Colombo
Roshan plezz immediately give a message abt ur well-being
I donno what to say - im devastated as this tragedy of evil proportions begins to sink in ( (
"tharai mEl piRakka vaiththAm
engaLai thaNNeeril pizhaikka vaiththAN
karai mEl irukka vaiththAN
peNgaLai kaNNeeril mithakka vaithtAN
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mudinthAL mudiyum thodarnthAl thodarum
ithuthAn engaL vAzhkai"
karai mElum irukka vidaliyE avargaLai - sathikAra iyaRkaiyE! pAviyE! avargaLai karaiyilum kolkiRAyE
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27th December 2004, 12:05 AM
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Alas ! ... IT IS SHOCKING.... OH ! GOD..... WHY THIS....?
SUCH A SUDDEN ONSLAUGHT by Nature.... on Humanity...
.... Such a Magnitude.... !!........SO..O..O..O.... SUDDEN...
.... All CAUGHT UNAWARE......NEVER HEARD IN HISTORY.....!!
On My Phonetalk to Chennai India, I come to know that the REAL LOSS AND DAMAGES are far more than what is reported in Online.....
.... and the Pathetic plight of the people....!!!!.... HEART-RENDING....!!!!!!!!!!
.... NO WORDS.... TO DESCRIBE.....
Oh! God !!!...Let us all PRAY FOR THE INNOCENT VICTIMS !!!
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27th December 2004, 12:15 AM
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27th December 2004, 12:29 AM
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27th December 2004, 12:59 AM
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Some clarifications :
* Chennai experienced some "mild tremors" and "after shocks" from that HUGE quake which hit the indonesian coast, and indian seismologists discount an independent tremor as i twas definitely caused by that indonesian quake.
* indonesian quake happened around 6:29 am IST and chennai experienced mild tremors and after-shocks due to that huge quake - around 6:45 am IST on Sunday.
* The Tsunamis hit the TN coast around 8:35-8:45am IST - that is almost 2 hours AFTER chennai experienced mild tremors in the morning.
It was clearly an effect of that gigantic Quake in indonesian region and as the ripple-effect of that quake, Tsunamis were formed and hit the south-asian coast.
I heard that "shockwaves" were felt in M'asia and S'pore too. PLz share abt that too here.
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