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The earthquake..
Dec 29 2004 11:28pm

Jacen Aratan
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I'm quite surprised this thread hasn't been made before, actually.

I count on nearly all of you to know, but if some don't know - a major earthquake (8,9 on the Richter scale - biggest in 40 years) struck right next to the island of Sumatra Sunday the 26th (Sumatra would be in Indonesia), and the following tsunami has killed [at the time of writing] roughly 80.000 people, with the likelyhood of at least another 20.000.... if the dead animals and humans are not removed, there's a great risk of malaria and colera, as well as other diseases.

Many thousands are still unaccounted for, and the tsunami is known to have killed more than 100 African fishermen.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4132725.stm

Map of the earthquake

How to help


Please give these people a little thought on your way, as they (both inhabitants and tourists) were caught in one of the worst catastrophes since World War 2....

EDIT: The death toll is far above the 100 000 mark now, with lots to come.. and they still fear more than a third may be children.

This post was edited by Jacen Aratan on Dec 30 2004 10:39pm.

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Jan 08 2005 02:49pm

Jenko
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 Jenko

There is a relief concert being held in Cardiff (Millenium Stadium) next saturday with some of the top british and american acts there, they started to sell 11am this morning, it is now 14:40 and they're sold out
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Jan 08 2005 11:08am

Jacen Aratan
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No, the EU had it last Wednesday (Denmark skipped it though, as we'd already had one last Sunday).

Jan 08 2005 06:29am

Jade Jedi
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I was glad to hear that my government is donating $1 billion to go towards aid and releif, along with how ever many millions indervidual people have already donated.
All Australian free to air tv stations are broarcasting a live concert/telethon tonight to raise more money.
We here in Australia are having a national day of morning on Sun 16 Jan is that the same everywhere ?
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Jan 07 2005 10:14pm

Jacen Aratan
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Tomorrow TV2 (semi-government financed Danish TV station) will be having a "donate to the victims"-day, going from 8am till midnight... if any Danes are able to donate, go for it. :)

Jan 06 2005 09:29pm

Henkes
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 Henkes

And for the dutchies...
There are several fund-raising concerts you can go to aswell!

I've signed up my band to participate in several too...
So if you don't feel like just wiring money, then go to a concert, have a great time and help out those poor people!
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This comment was edited by Henkes on Jan 06 2005 09:30pm.

Jan 05 2005 02:07am

monkai
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The Donation thingy on Amazon.com is legit too.


Jan 04 2005 09:06pm

Jacen Aratan
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Organisations that have ads on TV should be legitimate enough, I'd go with them - or one of the organisations listed on BBC/CNN/your national network.

Jan 04 2005 09:01pm

Buzz
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 Buzz

Yeah over $2 billion has been pledged by various nations, of course there's no guarrantee of all of them paying all of what they pledged. There is a tsunami warning system in place in the Pacific Ocean. This however occurred in the Indian Ocean. The U.S., Australia, Japan, and India are planning now to implement a warning system for the Indian Ocean. That will then be the method to be able to warn people in the future. It is very sad that it didn't exist sooner.

If you can find an organization taking money for this cause, make sure its legitimate and then give what you can. Even a small amount can make a difference.
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Jan 04 2005 07:49pm

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People all over the world werent celebrating new years they were praying... :(
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Jan 04 2005 03:15pm

Jacen Aratan
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Last thing I heard, some days ago, it was almost $2bn. Should be above by now..

Jan 04 2005 01:49pm

Nero
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 Nero

Yesterday in a dutch paper there was said that
at the moment 1,5 billion dollar has been raised.

This is the worst disaster in a long time and it strikes me how easy it had been to avoid so many losses. Three hour before the wave actually hit Sri Lanka there where people knowing exactly how big it was and at what speed it was traveling.
If the people at Sri Lanka would've been warned so many deaths would have been avoided...

I can only say I really feel for this people and that I really hope the donations will do a lot of good and that those people there can pick up their lives again...
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Jan 04 2005 09:50am

Smilykrazy
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those numbers are just sickening. :(
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Jan 04 2005 08:59am

Jacen Aratan
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95.000 just in Indonesia. :/

Jan 03 2005 08:28pm

CuZzA
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 CuZzA

144,000 :S
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Jan 03 2005 08:12pm

Gilan Jinn
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Its just horrible , all of those family's torn apart, all of those people that are left behind.
Its just almost unbelievable that something like that could happen , and its even worser cause it happend in the period of christmas.

The entire world is helping now and that makes me happy.

Take care people that survived the tsunami, you will pull trough this horrible time.
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Jan 03 2005 05:32am

3th
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we feel helpless, we feel sad, we don't know what to do. we are thankful we are alive...this article hit me in the gut...gruesome reality in many ways...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6775398/
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Jan 02 2005 01:33pm

Bail Hope of Belouve
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I heard about this on the news, radio, internet, everywhere.
This is terrible:(

I wanted to post before, but I didn't know exactly what to say.
I think it's awful that this has occurred, it's so terrible to have so many lives wasted :(

At the same time though, notice how well the world suddenly works together. None of that 'You have gay marriages, so we ain't working with you' kind of crap, but every tries their best to help.

In only one day, we had 3 million Euros in Belgium alone. This only shows how much we all care, I think.
I pray for the victims and the survivors who are left behind.
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Jan 02 2005 01:17pm

Jacen Aratan
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Bumped...

Honestly, I thought the death of 129.000 people (very likely up to 150.000), biggest natural disaster since '71, would get just a tad more responses than the same 3-4 people posting more than once...

This comment was edited by Jacen Aratan on Jan 02 2005 01:24pm.

Jan 01 2005 09:43am

3th
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i know our gov't is doing some things. i just think a tragedy of this magnitude makes one question all kinds of priorities. but yeah, all to easy for me to be a critic; hindsight is 20/20; etc. so i'll keep my yapper shut.
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Jan 01 2005 07:28am

Smilykrazy
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i heard the death toll is now 150k! :(
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Jan 01 2005 12:17am

Buzz
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 Buzz

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too bad we couldn't just take all of our troops out of iraq and put them towards relief work in asia. could maybe save more people than the resulting civil war in iraq. who really knows though. just makes you wonder why things happen the way they do sometimes.

amazing tragedy...sad that the poorest part of the world is the worst affected by such things. :(


3th, just so you know, one of the things the US is doing is sending over military vessels and such. Along with probably the most money coming from the U.S. and not to mention individuals in the U.S. (A man from Cincinnati, Ohio gave $200,000 to pay for jet fuel for a 747 taking supplies over there.) My thoughts and prayers go out to the people who suffered this tragedy.
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Dec 31 2004 09:08pm

CuZzA
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 CuZzA

i've donated £50 out of my own pocket money this morning:)
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Dec 31 2004 07:03am

Smilykrazy
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yeah this whole thing makes me sick. Just imagine laying on the beach vacationing and Bam! Tsunami! Next thing you know you are covered by 20 foot waves struggling to catch a breath until the water just totally overwhelms you. Not to mention the waves come in and at least 100 mph.

This REALLY makes me sick. :(
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Dec 31 2004 05:20am

Jade
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 Jade

This is very tragic.

If you havent already, please either yourselves or your parents donate money for the relief aids to help them get what is needed to those affected areas....it is the least we could do........and pray

God be with them all!

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Dec 30 2004 11:02pm

CuZzA
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 CuZzA

125,000
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