Tsunami

[Ciaran]

MOVE 1 INCH BACK THEN EARTH!!!! if we move 1 more inch in the same direction another one might happen but even worse than this one

[Butcher11]

the one that killed 900,000

happpned in 1887.

It was called the yellow river and it flooded.


It floooded ALOT.

I don't know where it happened though.

The Yellow River is in China
And on the news they said 100,000 possibly, this is such a tragedy, with all our technology we can't stop this :@

[Corey777]

Yes, so many people dead.

Here is some VERY SAD and discusting news.

Some of the country's have their water sources polluted....


By dead bodies!!

Some people cannot drink because their brothers and sisters and parents are dead in there.

How sad.

[dj-ally]

I beleave that a sunomi comes from the earthquake when the paltes hit together with cause the earth quake the makes thw water shake and then cause waves like when u rock a pool..... * UPDATE* now the death toal is 116,000 But they found a surving family and they inteveiwd them i hope theres more suvivers plz be positive....

[Ryan]

125,000 people now.... im startin to get worried bout my friend

[Michael.]

Ocean disaster toll hits 114,000

Thai woman breaks down over the telephone
The hunt for survivors is drawing to a close
New figures reveal at least 114,000 people died in Sunday's ocean disaster, as aid agencies struggle to provide relief to the Indian Ocean region.

Officials in Indonesia say the number killed there is now nearly 80,000 and the death toll from the worst-hit area is set to rise still higher.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the disaster was unprecedented and required an unprecedented response.

The entire UN family was ready to help people rebuild their lives, he said.

Millions who survived the waves now have little water, food or shelter.

Relief teams and supplies are pouring into the region but have yet to reach the hardest-hit and most remote areas.

There are reports of desperate people fighting over aid. Aftershocks and fears of new tsunamis have sown panic among survivors in Indonesia and India.

Across the region thousands remain unaccounted for since the 9.0 magnitude undersea earthquake off Sumatra that forced a wall of water smashing into coastlines as far away as east Africa.

Click here for map of affected area

The US, Australia, Japan and India have formed a coalition to provide relief.

The World Bank has announced that it is giving $250m to help victims while the UK increased its contribution to $96m, making it the biggest donation from an individual country.

City of corpses

Health ministry officials in Indonesia put the new death toll at 79,940.


NATURAL DISASTERS
2004 Asian quake disaster - toll so far exceeds 110,000
2003 earthquake in Bam, Iran - official casualty figure is 26,271
1976 Earthquake in Tangshan, China, kills 242,000
1970 Cyclone in Bangladesh kills 500,000
1887 China's Yellow River breaks its banks in Huayan Kou killing 900,000
1826 Tsunami kills 27,000 in Japan
1815 Volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora on Indonesia's Sumbawa Island kills 90,000
1556 Earthquake in China's Shanxi and Henan provinces kills 830,000

World's worst disasters

They explained that the figure had jumped by more than 20,000 after large numbers of bodies were found on Sumatra's remote north-west coast, the area of land closest to the epicentre of the earthquake that triggered the waves.

Government institutions in the region have collapsed and fuel supplies have almost run out, officials said.

The BBC's Andrew Harding in Banda Aceh says relief supplies are barely trickling into the city where drinking water is also scarce and corpses clog the streets.

A logistical nightmare awaits the massive aid operation, he says.


FOREIGNERS MISSING AND DEAD
Sweden: 44 dead, at least 1,400 missing
Germany: 33 dead, over 1,000 missing
Britain: 28 dead, 50 missing
France: 22 dead, 90 missing
Norway: 21 dead, 430 missing
Italy: 14 dead, 600 missing
US: 12 dead, thousands unaccounted for
Switzerland: 11 dead
Australia: 10 dead, 1,000 missing

At-a-glance: Countries hit
Satellite images of tsunamis
There are reports of fighting among survivors over food in the city.

"There is no food here whatsoever. We need rice. We need medicine. I haven't eaten in two days," a local woman told Reuters news agency.

A lone airport serves the entire region and road links to many remote areas have been washed away by sea waters.

On Thursday, aftershocks off Indonesia triggered fresh panic among survivors in Aceh.

Frustration

Rumours of impending waves quickly spread to the two other countries which bore the brunt of Sunday's tsunamis - India and Sri Lanka.


KEY AID PLEDGES
World Bank $250m
UK $96m
EU $44m
US: $35m
Canada: $33m
Japan: $30m
Australia: $27m
France: $20.4m
Denmark: $15.6m
Saudi Arabia: $10m
Norway: $6.6m
Taiwan: $5.1m
Finland: $3.4m
Kuwait: $2.1m
Netherlands: $2.6m
UAE: $2m
Ireland $1.3m
Singapore: $1.2m
Source: Reuters, United Nations

Tsunami: how to help
Quake press takes stock
Indian officials issued a warning, prompting many people to flee coastal areas both in southern India and Sri Lanka.

Officials of the World Health Organization say as many as five million people are at risk throughout the region because they are unable to get water, food or adequate sanitation.

Several countries have seen their infrastructure shattered; countless roads and bridges have been swept away.

Stockpiles of supplies have begun to mount at some airports and distribution centres, where airlifts of aid have been held up by a shortage of helicopters.

The UN's relief co-ordinator, Jan Egeland, has said it will take another "two or three days" for the relief effort to get into full swing - by which time it may be too late for tens of thousands of people.

"We are doing very little at the moment," he said.

"I believe the frustration will be growing in the days and weeks ahead."

There are fears that epidemics will erupt because water supplies have been contaminated.

[Pulchritudinous]

I beleave that a sunomi comes from the earthquake when the paltes hit together with cause the earth quake the makes thw water shake and then cause waves like when u rock a pool..... * UPDATE* now the death toal is 116,000 But they found a surving family and they inteveiwd them i hope theres more suvivers plz be positive....

Kinda true, the world is like a football, with all different plates, and they do kind of 'hit' together, but they rub against eachother causing waves of energy, and because the earthquake was 9 on the ricter scale, it made big energy waves, which caused the tidal waves.
If you get me...lol.

[JadeLestrange]

Ok,short way of putting it : The Earthquake Was Nasty.
lol nah i have more to say than that.Short Story.My mum's a travel agent and she was on the phone to one of her customers who didn't enjoy his holiday.she was organising his refund when he came out and said "i know i have some money due to me but can you possibly organise it so that the money goes to the Earthquake Aid support Fund.I'm leaving it there.I have enough but there are people out there that have lost their families so let them have the money."
which just goes to show that there ARE decent people in this world.The Death toll is rapidly rising out there and i felt helpless so when i go back to school,im going to organise a charity event with my friends that will raise money,then we're going to send it to the Earthquake Aid thingy.

[Bunny]

I really feel awful about this. The lastest death toll I've heard is 80,000 people. I saw a new video that came up on the news which had a few 5-6 year old kids who were just playing at the beach when all of a sudden the tsunami came, they ended up being swept up by the waves. Another video I saw was at the place where they had all the dead people. All their arms and legs were jagged because they died like that and then their bodies stiffened. This is an awful way that people have to celebrate the new year.

It's nice to know that people are helping out. You will find information on the news about donating money to go towards helping people who survived the tsunami.

[Clo]

Awww it's really bad all that's happened Our family have donated to them. Let's hope the survivors get sent enough for food and water and shelters.