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wow, i was waiting to see the raw vides, thanks laurel.....very shocking footage!

Holy Crap!!!! Thats almost un-real. I dont know what to say.

chills went down my spine waching thoes.

i thought tusnamies were 50 foot surfable pipes. not unexpected destructive flash floods that look like friendly waves that just dont stop comming.

holy crap is right. its worse than a movie even

It's amazing the power of nature.

The news reported that they haven't found any dead animals - even in the Sri Lankan zoo or whatever. They theorize that the animals knew it was coming. Too bad the governments didn't. I saw something warning about this happening to the east coast of the US if some volcano off Africa erupts explosively. I live on a hill overlooking the ocean and though I'm not living in fear it has made me think.

Steve

Thing about tsunami waves. . . they travel incredibly fast. . . so while the wave itself might not *seem* impressive. . . the amount of actual force behind it (the amount of water that will come in) is usually amazingly-large.

They estimated the initial jolt created 500 mph shock waves in the water. . .

evolutionmovement wrote:It's amazing the power of nature.

The news reported that they haven't found any dead animals - even in the Sri Lankan zoo or whatever.

Zoo animals dissolve when saturated in seawater.

They estimated the initial jolt created 500 mph shock waves in the water. . .

P waves don't do any harm though.

i was reading that they cary an initilal force of over 300mph and that it doesnt slow down for anything. also some of the locals that felt the quake got on their boats and stayed out on the water until it was over. it was also mentioned at nabisco ot that right before one hits the water will recede a few hundred yards and then come rushin back in. one person said it as "if you see a school of fish where there was water a second ago, dont think just run"

are there any more videos? i just did a google and i cant find anymore than what i have seen. thought they are impressive there wernt any shots of the initial impact at beach level. considering the magnatiude of the death toll and the fact that anything on that level problay didnt survive it would still be interesting to see what the first hit was like.

Horrible. That would be so scary. The death toll is staggering and so many were children.

Seeing something like that is really sobering as to just how small we really are.

A thought that I was thinking about last night while watching the news was how in the past this would have been such a Biblicle event. Ya know? The initial event causing so much death and destruction and then the insueing desease and famine. With modern medicine and transport technology we will hopefully be able to contain and reduce the effects of such an event but think back in the past. Something like this could have caused a plague on a massive scale. It's scary. It still may.

I'm not really a religious person but my thoughts and "prayers" go out to all the people who have and will be effected by this event.

This could start a pandemic. Aid workers return to their home countries carrying some virus. Not an alarmist, just thinking out loud. It's shocking to think that the current casualty reports are double what we suffered in the Vietnam War. More than either atomic bomb we dropped on Japan (but not both combined). Trying to equate it to human destruction, I can only think of the Tokyo fire bombings as so far having a similarly high casualty rate, but I don't recall Dresden's official estimate.

Amazing how we ar like ants lining a pond someone dropped a big rock in. I suppose nature owes us a few, but it's still horrible.

Steve

Tsunami's are definitely not things to mess with. Depending on the magnitude of the tsunami, they can travel up to 300 mph, if I remember correctly. They have very tall wavelengths, and out at sea most boats travel over them without even noticing. At the continental shelf the bottom of the wave slows down, and can cause the massive wave crests. This one more or less just looked like storm surge, etc.

I did a report on tsunami's back in school. It was pretty interesting. I probably have it one of my files somewhere.

They said this one was going 500 mph. There was an interview on the news with some scuba divers who were under water when the wave hit and they had no idea what happened. They said the water got cloudy and they felt like they were pulled down. Their instructor told them to surface and he started cursing people for throwing trash in the water when they got up. Then they noticed the large debris and the bodies. They said the thing they noticed most about the plane going back was the lack of the smell of sewage and dead bodies I guess they didn't realize they had adjusted to.

As much as I think there are way too many people in the world, it would be nice if the population control were voluntary. This makes the human being left in me sad, though what are you gonna do? It's the planet just doing what it does.

Steve

One of my customers who sold his entire house on Anderson Island, then took his money (lots of it.) moved to Thailand, right on the water. He's listed in the Phuket Gazette as one of the missing, presumed dead. Too bad, too. I liked that guy, he's the only one who's ever asked me for a second bottle of water "for the road". Little did he know...
Ironic, but fucked up.
He left my office with a little black bag of his only belongings --he left all his worldly possessions in the house he sold-- and a six-figure wire transfer reciept, never to be seen again. Oh, and he had my bottle of water.

It's sad all those people died, but yeah....overpopulation is a serious matter. We've made things "too safe" for the mindless dummies out there, and too many people are popping out kids like they're pez.

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The dynamics behind tsunamis are quite interesting. There was a show on the learning channel a couple weeks ago about them.

wow, the number is up to 117,000 thats unbelievable.

You have to think of it as the sea level rising 10' in a matter of seconds. Nothing man made will be able to stop it, not even buildings.

117k people is just the beginning. I heard they are starting a registry for the living, to better help them calculate the dead.

-Brian

Wait for the diseases to hit, too. All those hot Thai women ... F*&^#@$

Steve