Tsunami in Indonesia

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

BREAKING NEWS: A Tsunami has hit Indonesia for the second time in as many years, at least 20 people have been reported killed. The seach is underway for others who may have been swept away and a tsunami warning is now in effect for the Nicobar Islands.


The death toll in a deadly tsunami has risen to 20 at a resort on Indonesia's Java Island, according to police and witnesses. This comes jsut a few months after a deadly earthquake hit the region and after the Christmas Day Tsunami.

People fled to a hill to escape the wave on Pangandaran beach in west Java, a witness named Teti told el-Shinta radio station. "All the houses are destroyed along the beach," she said. | MORE >>

Sources: AP, MSNBC News, Reuters

 

[rack'm]

Ehhhhhhhh...........

Phuket!

 

[Lilypad]

The film from the previous tsunami were so surreal-stuff nightmares are made of. My thoughts go out to those folks and their country!

 

[Toxick]

The death toll in a deadly tsunami has risen to 20 at a resort on Indonesia's Java Island, according to police and witnesses.

Does it make me a bad person that my first thought here was "Only 20?"



Not that I want more people to die - it just seems that after 275,000 people died in the last one, having 20 people die in this one seems more like a relief than a disaster.

 

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

Does it make me a bad person that my first thought here was "Only 20?"



Not that I want more people to die - it just seems that after 275,000 people died in the last one, having 20 people die in this one seems more like a relief than a disaster.

I honestly belive that is because so many people died in the last one. These people were all so devastated after the Christmas Day Tsunami that they learned to flee to higher ground. They do so just about every time there is a considerable earthquake. I do imgine to number will rise and am willing to bet it will be in the hundreds or thousands. Hopefully I'm wrong.

 

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

Indonesia TV reports 37 killed in tsunami

MSNBC:
A powerful earthquake sent a 6-foot-high tsunami crashing into beach resorts on Indonesia’s Java island Monday, killing at least 37 people and extensively damaging hotels, restaurants and homes, officials and witnesses said. One tourist said she saw about 20 bodies at a health clinic while Metro TV, quoting an Indonesian lawmaker, said at least 37 were killed.

Thousands of people fled to higher ground along a 110-mile stretch of the densely populated island’s southern coast, some shouting “Tsunami! Tsunami!” and climbing trees or crowding into mosques to pray. | MORE >>

 

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

69

At last count; toll rising

 

[Hessian]

Dateline: AP
Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans has offered Java 40 slightly stained busses to assist in the evacuation.

Al Jazeera:
Saudi Arabia has offered 500 million$$ raised to waterproof all Indonesian mosques while the refugees wait for western countries to cover all the humanitarian needs.

UPI: What did Bush have to do with this?