Alaska 1964 9.2-Rquote:Op zaterdag 1 januari 2005 23:24 schreef Light het volgende:
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't Zijn er wel heel veel idd.
Aan de andere kant is het natuurlijk ook wel een zware aardbeving, 9.0 op de schaal van Richter.
Sinds 1990 zijn er 11 aardbevingen geweest van 8.0 of zwaarder, waarvan slechts 1 zwaarder dan 8.4. Echt veel vergelijkingsmateriaal is er dus ook niet.
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eq_depot/mag8.html
quote:A Coast Guard pilot today spotted the Sentinalese in the North Sentinalese island during one of several low-flying sorties. The Sentinalese had actually thrown stones at the aircraft.
Deze is vooraf gegaan, 3 dagen eerder, door een 8.1 schok een heel stuk zuidelijker maar wel dezelfde plaat.quote:Op zaterdag 1 januari 2005 23:28 schreef Drugshond het volgende:
Wat een naschokken in dat tektonische gebied....... is er een kans dat er nog zoiets gaat (op korte termijn) gaat gebeuren.... Dat de aardbeving van 9.0-R slechts een incident was.
Die is bijgesteld tot 7.8 North of Macquari Island Near New Zeelandquote:Op zaterdag 1 januari 2005 23:53 schreef Dagonet het volgende:
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Deze is vooraf gegaan, 3 dagen eerder, door een 8.1 schok een heel stuk zuidelijker maar wel dezelfde plaat.
quote:10 Year Old Girl Saves Dozens From Tsunami
PHUKET, Thailand - Quick-thinking 10-year-old Tilly Smith is being hailed as a hero after saving her parents and dozens of fellow vacationers from the deadly tsunami - thanks to a school geography lesson.
Tilly warned the doubting adults at a resort that a massive tidal wave was about to strike - just minutes before the deadly tide rushed in and turned the resort into rubble.
Tilly's family, from Surrey, England, was enjoying a day at Maikhao Beach last Sunday when the sea rushed out and began to bubble.
The adults were curious, but Tilly froze in horror.
"Mummy, we must get off the beach now!" she told her mother.
"I think there's going to be a tsunami."
The adults didn't understand until Tilly added the magic words:
"A tidal wave."
Her warning spread like wildfire. Within seconds, the beach was deserted - and it turned out to be one of the only places along the shores of Phuket
where no one was killed or seriously injured.
Last night, Tilly was being hailed as a savior.
"I think it's phenomenal that Tilly's parents and the others on the beach are alive because she studied hard at school," said Craig Smith , the American manager of the JW Marriott Hotel where Tilly's family was staying.
He said a tsunami is not like you see in the movies, where a huge wave wells up on the horizon and can be seen for miles off shore.
It is more like a sudden surge of water," he said. "There's very little warning.
She's a hero."
Tilly shrugged off the attention and modestly said, "Last term, my geography teacher, Mr. Kearney, taught us about earthquakes and how they can cause tsunamis.
"I was on the beach, and the water started to go funny.
"I recognized what was happening and had a feeling there was going to be a tsunami."
"When the water went back, I was like most people on the beach. I wanted to walk down and look at what was going on," she recalled. "It was only when Tilly explained what she thought was going to happen that I had second thoughts.
"We ran off the beach as fast as we could and went to the first floor of the hotel where it would be safe. Minutes later the water surged right over the beach and demolished everything in its path.
"It was terrifying to watch but I'm very proud of her."
The Sun
Ten foreign tourists stranded in Sabangquote:Op zondag 2 januari 2005 05:17 schreef Calella het volgende:
Hoor nu net op een radio-journaal dat er Nederlanders zijn gevonden op een eilandje die van de buitenwereld waren afgesneden sinds de tsunami.
quote:Op zondag 2 januari 2005 02:42 schreef Ixnay het volgende:
Die luchtfoto... Dat ze daar zomaar mensen laten bouwen, snap ik niet.
quote:Elephants join Thailand's cleanup
Elephants joined the huge effort to clean up Thailand's southern coastline and recover dead bodies Sunday, as the country's death toll climbed close to 5,000 a week after the tsunami disaster.
A team of elephants, normally used to haul logs in forests, arrived Sunday in Phang Nga, an area north of Phuket that was particularly hard it.
"They will be assigned to work in towing heavy objects and pulling out debris," said Siriphong Leeprasit, a district official.
"Elephants could work better in pulling out the remains of collapsed buildings and houses, especially in areas flooded with mud or hilly areas."
Teams of forensic experts from Thailand and 18 countries around the world are working frantically at Buddhist temples that act as makeshift morgues to identify the dead, many of whom were foreign tourists, before they decompose in the tropical heat.
German experts at Mai Khao cemetery logged corpses' dental records and took bone samples for DNA, logging the details in computers and assigning each body a number.
The number is recorded on a microchip placed on the bodies that can be scanned later to make them easier to identify, said team leader Juergen Peter.
Peter is a veteran of several disasters, but none on this scale.
"The work is the same, the dimension is different," he said. "You can't describe it when you see all this."
Thailand's official death count is 4,812.
But with more than 6,000 people still listed as missing, the official death toll could be as high as 8,000, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has warned.
"We will continue to search for dead bodies," he said. "Heavy vehicles have reached the area to search under damaged buildings, wells, and those washed up on the seashores."
There are more than 3,000 visitors from Sweden among the missing in Thailand, and the Scandinavian nation is braced for what could be the worst natural disaster toll in its history.
While tourists on the resort island of Phuket were returning to some of the beaches untouched by the devastation, rescuers and forensic teams were focusing on the region around Khao Lak beach, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Phuket, where plush resorts were flattened by the waves.
Cranes and backhoes have been used to open routes for rescuers to go in and search for victims, but many local residents have complained the assistance has been slow and some areas have still not been accessed.
About 100 Thai police cadets also were being flown into the devastated area to help rebuild fishing villages and other hard-hit regions, the Bangkok Post reported.
Over een zoektocht bij de Andaman en Nicobar eilanden ....quote:From Campbell Bay, the aircraft flew over some of the islands - now completely submerged - before it turned towards Car Nicobar.
The airmen admitted that some of these islands like Katchall had simply vanished, no longer visible from the air.
"We can't find the islands from the co-ordinates we have," said one, who asked not to be identified.
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