Indonesia quake said among most powerful

[DeltAlum]

50,000 by mid afternoon. Nearly as many in one day as in the Vietnam War -- at least our part of it.

[SapphireSphinx9]

this is so sad!

moe.ron i'm glad to hear your family's ok.

on a sad note, a childhood friend of mine moved to thailand as a christian missionary a few years ago - her family hasn't heard from her yet.

i don't know if anyone is interested, but if you would like to send a donation to the red cross their information is:

American Red Cross International Relief Fund
P.O. Box 37243
Washington D.C. 20013
(800) 435-7669

please put "Tsunami Relief" in the note section of your checks, if you want your donation to specifically go to this cause.

if you live outside the U.S. i'm sure that the red cross is listed in your phone book, or you can call the operator to get a local number to reach them for their information.

let's all pray that this is the worst of it all, and that these countries will be able to recover from all of this!

~beth

[ShyViolet]

This isht is scary. Apparently the water level rose 4 inches in Alaska after the earthquake - says the Anchorage Daily News. http://www.adn.com/front/story/5954343p-5860104c.html

For Alaskans that lived through the '64 Good Friday earthquake (9.2 on the richter scale for 5 minutes straight), the reports of this brought back memories. My mom was kind of freaking out remembering everything in an e-mail she sent me yesterday.

I'm keeping the victims in my prayers.

[IowaStatePhiPsi]

NEW YORK (SI.com) -- Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover model Petra Nemcova was injured and her photographer boyfriend is missing after the pair were caught up in the Asian tsunami disaster.

Nemcova told the New York Daily News that she survived the tsunami, which has killed at least 33,000 people, by clinging to a palm tree for eight hours, despite a broken pelvis and internal injuries.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...x.html?cnn=yes

[moe.ron]

How to help:

ACTION AGAINST HUNGER
247 West 37th Street, Suite 1201
New York, N.Y. 10018
212-967-7800 x108
www.actionagainsthunger.org

AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE
45 West 36th Street, 10th Floor
New York, N.Y. 10018
800-889-7146
www.ajws.org

AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE
South Asia Tsunami Relief
Box 321
847A Second Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10017
212-687-6200 ext. 851
www.jdc.org

AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE
AFSC Crisis Fund
1501 Cherry Street
Philadelphia, Pa. 19102
215-241-7000
www.afsc.org

AMERICAN RED CROSS
International Response Fund
P.O. Box 37243
Washington, D.C. 20013
800-HELP NOW
www.redcross.org

CARE
151 Ellis Street
Atlanta, GA 30303
800-521-CARE
www.care.org

CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES
Tsunami Emergency
P.O. Box 17090
Baltimore, Md. 21203-7090
800-736-3467
www.catholicrelief.org

DIRECT RELIEF INTERNATIONAL
27 South La Patera Lane
Santa Barbara, Calif. 93117
805-964-4767
www.directrelief.org

DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS
P.O. Box 1856
Merrifield, Va. 22116-8056
888-392-0392
www.doctorswithoutborders.org

EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT
Emergency Fund
P. O. Box 12043
Newark, NJ 07101
800-334-7626
www.er-d.org

INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF RED CROSS/RED CRESCENT
www.ifrc.org

INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS
Earthquake/Tsunami Relief
1919 Santa Monica Boulevard, Suite 300
Santa Monica, Calif. 90404
800-481-4462
www.imcworldwide.org

INTERNATIONAL ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES
Asia Disaster Response
P.O. Box 630225
Baltimore, MD 21263-0225
877-803-4622
www.iocc.org

ISLAMIC RELIEF USA
Southeast Asia Earthquake Emergency
P.O. Box 6098
Burbank, Calif. 91510
888-479-4968
www.irw.org/asiaquake

MERCY CORPS
Southeast Asia Earthquake Response
Dept. W
P.O. Box 2669
Portland, Ore. 97208
800-852-2100
www.mercycorps.org

OPERATION USA
8320 Melrose Avenue, Suite 200
Los Angles, Calif. 90069
800-678-7255
www.opusa.org

OXFAM AMERICA
Donor Services Department
26 West Street
Boston, MA 12111-1206
800-77-OXFAM
www.oxfamamerica.org

SAVE THE CHILDREN
Asia Earthquake/Tidal Wave Relief Fund
54 Wilton Road
Westport, Conn. 06880
800-728-3843
www.savethechildren.org

UNICEF
General Emergency Fund
333 E. 38th Street
New York, NY 10016
800-4-UNICEF
www.unicef.org

[chideltjen]

Casualties reached over 76,000.

[sigtau305]

Originally posted by chideltjen
Casualties reached over 76,000.

My thoughts and Prayers to the families.

[IowaStatePhiPsi]

I wonder if Aceh will use this to their advantage to gain freedom from Indonesia. They've been fighting for freedom for 28 years, Indonesia has killed over ten thousand people living in Aceh.
Until the tsunami hit there was a ban on foreign media and forign aid agencies/workers in the region.
Maybe Indonesia will just accept the aid, withhold it from those in need in Aceh and let starvation/disease wipe out more people so that they can keep the area under control.

[IowaStatePhiPsi]

found these:

Sri Lanka (7MB)
Phucket (12MB)
Patong Beach (10MB)

[AlphaGamDiva]

this is just unreal. unreal

should i be wearing my "end of times" sign, b/c my God. this is just so sad and so scary.....and i just can't really even get my mind around it.

prayers to all of these families.

[AGDee]

I am also having an incredibly hard time getting my mind around this. I have surfed to CNN while watching TV a few times today and they show piles and piles of bodies just sitting there, some covered in plastic, some not, and people are wandering around aimlessly. It looks like a bad horror film. They were showing some reconciliations of parents and children in hospitals, where neither was sure what had happened to the others, and that was a relief to see. But... whoa. The last "number" I heard was 80,000 and they were saying that 25% of the population of Aceh was dead. Some of the video coverage is so horrifying... I have prayed so many times for these poor people. A local doctor's office has suggested that all doctors donate the sample antibiotics to send over to the areas that are worried about disease spreading.

horrifying beyond words.... that's what it is.

Dee

[moe.ron]

Originally posted by IowaStatePhiPsi
I wonder if Aceh will use this to their advantage to gain freedom from Indonesia. They've been fighting for freedom for 28 years, Indonesia has killed over ten thousand people living in Aceh.
Until the tsunami hit there was a ban on foreign media and forign aid agencies/workers in the region.
Maybe Indonesia will just accept the aid, withhold it from those in need in Aceh and let starvation/disease wipe out more people so that they can keep the area under control.

Do you even know what you are talking about?

[lifesaver]

I cant even wrap my head around this either. 84,000 today. They are sayign it will easily go over 100,000. Wow. 100,000 wiped out in a day. 6 Billion peopel on the face of the earth and 100,000 perish in a day. I know its a tiny percentile, but to know that .00X% (I am way too tired to do the math) of the worlds population died at once is too much to fathom.

Amazing. Simply amazing. Tragic.

[IowaStatePhiPsi]

Originally posted by moe.ron
Do you even know what you are talking about?

Yes.

[moe.ron]

They've been fighting for freedom for 28 years, Indonesia has killed over ten thousand people living in Aceh.

GAM has as much support as the Indonesian soldiers. Just like many of the soldiers, GAM has also been accused of human rights violation. I know this because one of my relative was threaten by GAM because he refuse to fight along with them. Another thing to consider, GAM's founder was an Indonesian diplomat. Hasan di Tiro is now a Swedish citizen.

Maybe Indonesia will just accept the aid, withhold it from those in need in Aceh and let starvation/disease wipe out more people so that they can keep the area under control

Back up your slanderous accusation.