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| Earthquake/Tsunami - 145,000 + confirmed dead |
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| jannah |
| 12/26/04 at 13:36:11 |
| Inna lillah wa inna ilaihi rajeoon... I think there are some people on the board in Sri Lanka? this is such tragedy :( Asian Quakes' Tsunami Kill More Than 8,000 Largest Earthquake in 40 Years Triggers Tsunami That Kill More Than 8,000 in Six Asian Nations The Associated Press Dec. 26, 2004 - The world's most powerful earthquake in 40 years struck deep under the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Sumatra on Sunday, triggering tidal waves up to 20 feet high that obliterated villages and seaside resorts in six countries across southern and southeast Asia. About 8,000 people were killed in the devastation. Tourists, fishermen, homes and cars were swept away by walls of water that rolled across the Bay of Bengal, unleashed by the 8.9-magnitude earthquake. The tsunami waves barreled nearly 3,000 miles across the ocean to Africa, where at least nine people were killed in Somalia. In Sri Lanka, 1,000 miles west of the epicenter, more than 3,000 people were killed, the country's top police official said. At least 2,200 died in Indonesia, and more than 2,300 along the southern coasts of India. At least 289 were confirmed dead in Thailand, 42 in Malaysia and 2 in Bangladesh. But officials expected the death toll to continue to rise, with hundreds reported missing and all communications cut off to towns in the Indonesian island of Sumatra that were closest to the epicenter. Hundreds of bodies were found on various beaches along India's southern state of Tamil Nadu, and more were expected to be washed in by the sea, officials said. The rush of tsunami waves brought sudden disaster to people carrying out their daily activities on the ocean's edge: Sunbathers on the beaches of the Thai resort of Phuket were washed away; a group of 32 Indians including 15 children were killed while taking a ritual Hindu bath to mark the full moon day; fishing boats, with their owners clinging to their sides, were picked up by the waves and tossed away. "All the planet is vibrating" from the quake, said Enzo Boschi, the head of Italy's National Geophysics Institute. Speaking on SKY TG24 TV, Boschi said the quake even disturbed the Earth's rotation. The U.S. Geological Survey measured the quake at a magnitude of 8.9. Geophysicist Julie Martinez said it was the world's fifth-largest since 1900 and the largest since a 9.2 temblor hit Prince William Sound Alaska in 1964. The epicenter was located 155 miles south-southeast of Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province on Sumatra, and six miles under the seabed of the Indian Ocean. There were at least a half-dozen powerful aftershocks, ranging in magnitude from almost 6 and 7.3. On Sumatra, the quake destroyed dozens of buildings but as elsewhere, it was the wall of water that followed that caused the most deaths and devastation. Tidal waves leveled towns in Aceh province on Sumatra's northern tip. An Associated Press reporter saw bodies wedged in trees as the waters receded. More bodies littered the beaches. Health ministry official Els Mangundap said 1,876 people had died across the region, including some 1,400 in the Aceh provincial capital, Banda Aceh. Communications to the town had been cut. Relatives went through lines of bodies wrapped in blankets and sheets, searching for dead loved ones. Aceh province has long been the center of a violent insurgency against the government. The worst known death toll so far was in Sri Lanka, where a million people were displaced from wrecked villages. Some 20,000 soldiers were deployed in relief and rescue and to help police maintain law and order. Police chief, Chandra Fernando said at least 3,000 people were dead in areas under government control. An AP photographer saw two dozen bodies along a four-mile stretch of beach, some of children entangled in the wire mesh used to barricade seaside homes. Other bodies were brought up from the beach, wrapped in sarongs and laid on the road, while rows of men and women lined the roads asking if anyone had seen their relatives. "It is a huge tragedy," said Lalith Weerathunga, secretary to the Sri Lankan prime minister. "The death toll is going up all the time." He said the government did not know what was happening in areas of the northeast controlled by Tamil Tiger rebels. The pro-rebel www.nitharsanam.com Web site reported about 1,500 bodies were brought from various parts of Sri Lanka's northeast to a hospital in Mullaithivu district, 170 miles northeast of the capital, Colombo. About 170 children at an orphanage were feared dead after tidal waves pounded it in Mullaithivu, the Web site said. No independent confirmation of the report was available, but TamilNet another pro-rebel Web site said some guerrilla territory was badly hit. "Many parts ... are still inaccessible and it was difficult to provide damage estimates or death tolls there," it said. In India, beaches were turned into virtual open-air mortuaries, with bodies of people caught in the tidal wave being washed ashore. "I was shocked to see innumerable fishing boats flying on the shoulder of the waves, going back and forth into the sea, as if made of paper," said P. Ramanamurthy, 40, who lives in Kakinada, a town in Andra Pradesh state. The huge waves struck around breakfast time on the beaches of Thailand's beach resorts probably Asia's most popular holiday destination at this time of year, particularly for Europeans fleeing the winter cold wiping out bungalows, boats and cars, sweeping away sunbathers and snorkelers, witnesses said. "Initially we just heard a bang, a really loud bang," Gerrard Donnelly of Britain, a guest at Phuket island's Holiday Inn, told Britain's Sky News. "We initially thought it was a terrorist attack, then the wave came and we just kept running upstairs to get on as high ground as we could." "People that were snorkeling were dragged along the coral and washed up on the beach, and people that were sunbathing got washed into the sea," said Simon Clark, 29, a photographer from London vacationing on Ngai island. On Phuket, Somboon Wangnaitham, deputy director of the Wachira Hospital, said one of the worst hit areas was the populous Patong beach, where at least 32 people died and 500 were injured. Another survivor on Phuket was Natalia Moyano, 22, of Sydney, Australia, who was being treated for torn ligaments. "The water kept rising. It was very slow at first, then all of a sudden, it went right up," Moyano said. "At first I didn't think there was any danger, but when I realized the water kept rising so quickly, I tried to jump over a fence, but it broke." On Phi Phi island where "The Beach" starring Leonardo DiCaprio was filmed 200 bungalows at two resorts were swept out to sea. "I am afraid that there will be a high figure of foreigners missing in the sea and also my staff," said Chan Marongtaechar, owner of the PP Princess Resort and PP Charlie Beach Resort. Some 200 seriously injured people, most of them foreigners, were evacuated by helicopter from the island after dark, said Maj. Gen. Winai Nilasri of the Border Patrol Police. He said the island, which was crammed with tourist facilities, was without electricity. There was no tsunami threat for western North America or Hawaii, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. Scientists said the catastrophic death toll across the region might have been reduced if India and Sri Lanka had been part of an international warning system designed to advise coastal communities that a potentially killer wave was approaching. The system relies on a network of earthquake seismic sensors and tidal gauges attached to buoys in the oceans. Indonesia, a country of 17,000 islands, is prone to seismic upheaval because of its location on the margins of tectonic plates that make up the so-called the "Ring of Fire" around the Pacific Ocean basin. The Indonesian quake struck just three days after an 8.1 quake struck the ocean floor between Australia and Antarctica, causing buildings to shake hundreds of miles away but no serious damage or injury. Quakes reaching a magnitude 8 are very rare. A quake registering magnitude 8 rocked Japan's northern island of Hokkaido on Sept. 25, 2003, injuring nearly 600 people. An 8.4 magnitude tremor that struck off the coast of Peru on June 23, 2001, killed 74. Associated Press reporters Dilip Ganguly and Gemunu Amarasinghe in Colombo, Sri Lanka, K.N. Arun in Madras, India, and Sutin Wannabovorn in Phuket, Thailand, contributed to this report. |
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| jannah |
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| theOriginal |
| 12/26/04 at 15:17:46 |
| [slm] Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi raaji'un. I read somewhere that it's the biggest earthquake in 100 yrs (I know it says 40 here).. Wasalaam. |
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| yumna |
| 12/27/04 at 01:37:19 |
| [slm]. :(...my duas for all the victims of the earthquake and a request to all member of borad plz do pray for the victims of the this natural clamity |
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| Kathy |
| 12/27/04 at 07:57:16 |
| [slm] When I heard it was so large the earth's rotation was affected it made me think of the day of judgement when the sun will rise in the west. |
| 12/27/04 at 07:58:10 |
| Kathy |
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| sal |
| 12/27/04 at 08:57:05 |
| [quote author=Kathy link=board=bebzi;num=1104082572;start=0#3 date=12/27/04 at 07:57:16] [slm] When I heard it was so large the earth's rotation was affected it made me think of the day of judgement when the sun will rise in the west.[/quote] Subhan ALLAH its almost like that .This is a kind of lesson and example |
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| jannah |
| 12/27/04 at 16:45:00 |
| One man, Rajali, said his wife and two children were killed and he could not find dry ground to bury them to follow Islamic tradition. "What shall I do?" said the 55-year-old man, who, like many Indonesians, goes by a single name. "I don't know where to bury my wife and children." Please pray for them inshaAllah |
| 12/27/04 at 16:56:42 |
| jannah |
| Re: Earthquake/Tsunami - 20,000+ dead |
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| Caraj |
| 12/27/04 at 19:07:46 |
| Kathy where did you read it affected the earths rotation? Also a sister I was chatting with said this was a sign from Allah. What does that mean? |
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| bhaloo |
| 12/27/04 at 19:59:35 |
| [slm] Innal illahi wa innal illahi rajioon. [quote author=azizah link=board=bebzi;num=1104082572;start=0#6 date=12/27/04 at 19:07:46] Also a sister I was chatting with said this was a sign from Allah. What does that mean?[/quote] Yes, they are a sign, and they have been increasing in frequency. :( Here's one article on earthquakes, and how they are a sign from Allah (SWT): http://www.islaam.com/Article.aspx?id=390 |
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| lala |
| 12/27/04 at 20:38:18 |
| inna lilahi wa inna ilahi rajioon If any of you have some extra $$ this is the time to give...sooner than later..Too many displaced without homes/ in critical care/ without food resources , medical help both mental and physical... such are Allahs signs...keep man humble..and at his mercy.. peace and love yall..keep the faith salaam |
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| salaampeaceshalom |
| 12/28/04 at 07:02:51 |
| SubhanAllaah, wow, my mind boggles at just trying to picture an underwater earthquake. In our ignorance, none of us guys (i.e. most of my friends and myself), even knew about this straightaway. It was only when we started receiving calls from friends and family from abroad that we even realised what was happening. I feel really awful for my friends and others who still haven't been able to get thru to their families and so don't know what's happened to them. Ma'sha'Allaah, I have been affected by one of my neighbour's agony :-(. Apparently her cousin saw a tidal wave coming and alongside his wife and lil child, went up in to the hills from where he alerted ppl from his phone. Since then, no one kws what's happened to them, and nor does she know what's happened to her son, her husband and the rest of her family in her home country, Sri Lanka...And unfortunately, it's a similar story for so many other ppl. One of my colleagues family are all missing in Indonesia, and ma'sha'Allaah, she is trying to be so brave about it all. Even tho u try to comfort ppl, u feel so helpless, not knowing what anyone's fate/situation is. Ma'sha'Allaah we were planning to go to Penang for the weekend and for some reason we didn't end up going. Obviously, due to what has happened, we're all glad we didn't go, but it also made us think that perhaps it was a Divine act that had prevented us from going...Some of us were also planning to go to Thailand soon, and some of my Indonesian friends have been making plans for me to come and stay with them back at their homes during the next few weeks...When u plan about certain things, u rarely consider the chances of a natural disaster occuring... But alhumdulilah, this has brought so many ppl closer, as ppl have been trying to comfort each other and have been making special prayers at the mosques, etc...I saw a man being swept down a street, but my mind just pictured the scenario of a small child who would have drowned in this situation :(...subhanAllaah it pained me just to think this and I almost cried...I just pray that all those who have lost someone can find the strength to get thru this insha'Allaah... |
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| Kathy |
| 12/28/04 at 10:34:19 |
| [quote author=azizah link=board=bebzi;num=1104082572;start=0#6 date=12/27/04 at 19:07:46]Kathy where did you read it affected the earths rotation? [/quote] It is written in the first article jannah posted above. I also heard it on the TV news. |
| Re: Earthquake/Tsunami - 40,000+ confirmed dead |
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| AyeshaZ |
| 12/28/04 at 15:11:42 |
inna lilahi wa inna ilahi rajioon May Allah(swt) make it easy for them and their families. ameen I saw pictures of these young girls sharing one bottle of water with what seemed like 50 or more people... :'( |
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| momineqbal |
| 12/28/04 at 16:07:06 |
| [slm], Inna Lillahi Wa Ilahi Raje'oon! The toll keeps rising. Over 50000 now. There are islands in India to which they haven't even been able to reach yet. I read somewhere about a mother who didn't know which of her four children to save since she couldn't carry them all, so she just grabbed two of them and ran. |
| Re: Earthquake/Tsunami - 52,000+ confirmed dead |
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| jannah |
| 12/28/04 at 19:39:00 |
| NBC News reported about it affecting the earth's rotational pull.. so that the day it happenned sunday is shorter than the day after it.. The amount of devastation and death is unbelievable.. Tsunami Death Toll Climbs to 52,000 Death Toll From Tsunamis Mounts to More Than 52,000; Hungry Islanders Loot in Indonesia The Associated Press Dec. 28, 2004 - Hungry refugees survived on coconuts or looted food on Indonesia's battered Sumatra island Tuesday as the region's death toll from a mammoth earthquake and tsunami rose above 52,000. The U.N. health agency warned that epidemics could claim as many lives. One of the most dramatic illustrations of nature's force came to light Tuesday when reporters reached the scene of a Sri Lankan train carrying beachgoers that was swept into a marsh by a wall of water Sunday, killing at least 802. Eight rust-colored cars lay in deep pools of water in a ravaged palm grove, torn off wheels and baggage scattered among the twisted rails. In Indonesia, there were vast areas of devastation where the bodies had not been counted. An official said 10,000 people might have died in the area around a Sumatran town, which would be the worst death toll in a single location. A flight over Meulaboh showed widespread wreckage and buildings inundated by water. In India, a police official said 8,000 people were missing and feared dead, most of them on two island chains. They also were not part of The Associated Press' overall tally. Along India's southeastern coast, hospital teams stood by to help the injured, but three days after the disaster still spent most of their time tabulating the dead as ambulances hauled in more bodies. A French cultural center in Thailand's capital provided clothes and food for tourist families left with nothing when the sea battered southern beach resorts. "My mother, no word! My sisters, brothers, aunt, uncle, grandmother, no word!" yelled a woman at a makeshift morgue in Lhokseumawe, Indonesia. "Where are they? Where are they? I don't know where to start looking." Indonesia's Health Ministry said in a statement that thousands more bodies were found Tuesday, raising to more than 27,000 the number of confirmed deaths in parts of Sumatra island, the territory closest to the epicenter of the quake that send tsunami waves rolling across the Indian Ocean. Sri Lanka listed 18,700 people dead, India 4,400 and Thailand 1,500, with the toll expected to rise. A total of more than 300 were killed in Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, the Maldives, Somalia, Tanzania, Seychelles and Kenya. But officials had not yet counted the dead in two zones that suffered the brunt of both the earthquake and the tsunami that followed: the west coast of Sumatra and India's remote Andaman and Nicobar archipelagos just north of Sumatra. Purnomo Sidik, national disaster director at Indonesia's Social Affairs Ministry, said 10,000 people had been reported killed in and around Meulaboh, a poor town where most people are fishermen or workers on palm oil plantations. Television footage from overflights of Meulaboh and other parts of Sumatra's west coast showed thousands of homes underwater. Refugees fleeing the coast described surviving on little more than coconuts before reaching Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province on Sumatra's northern tip, which itself was largely flattened by the quake. "The sea was full of bodies," said one refugee, Sukardi Kasdi, who sailed a small boat to Banda Aceh to seek help for his family in Surang. He said his family had nothing to eat but coconuts. "I don't know how long everyone else will survive," he said. With aid not arriving quick enough, desperate people in Meulaboh and other towns in Aceh were stealing whatever food they could find, officials said. "People are looting, but not because they are evil, but they are hungry," said Red Cross official Irman Rachmat in Banda Aceh. The flooding uprooted land mines in Sri Lanka torn for years by a civil war threatening to kill or maim aid workers and survivors attempting to return to what's left of their homes. Near the Sri Lankan resort of Galle, workers said they expected to find more bodies under the wreckage of the train Queen of the Sea. Two hundred of the 802 recovered bodies had not been claimed by relatives Tuesday and were buried in a mass grave next to the tracks. "Is this the fate that we had planned for? My darling, you were the only hope for me," cried one young man for his dead girlfriend his university sweetheart as Buddhist monks prayed nearby. Aid groups struggled to mount what they described as the largest relief operation the world has ever seen, and to head off the threat of cholera and malaria epidemics that could break out where water supplies are polluted with bodies and debris. Dr. David Nabarro, head of crisis operations for the World Health Organization, warned that disease could take as many lives as Sunday's devastation. "The initial terror associated with the tsunamis and the earthquake itself may be dwarfed by the longer term suffering of the affected communities," he told reporters at the U.N. agency's offices in Geneva. The United States, Japan, Australia and other nations pledged millions of dollars to help the relief effort, and some sent military transport planes and helicopters to carry medical teams and emergency supplies. In southern Thailand's Phang Nga province, where resorts had been packed with thousands of tourists from Europe and elsewhere when the tsunami hit, soldiers and volunteers were still finding bodies lying bloated and rotting in the tropical sun. Survivors lined up at airports to leave the country, many without relatives or lovers they had come with. "I saw many kids perish. I saw parents trying to hold them but it was impossible. It was hell," said Karl Kalteka of Munich, Germany, who lost his girlfriend in the torrent. Amid the devastation, however, there were miraculous stories of survival. In Malaysia, a 20-day-old baby was found alive on a floating mattress and was reunited with her family. In Thailand, 2-year-old Hannes Bergstroem, who was found dazed and alone after the waves hit, was claimed by an uncle after his photograph was posted on the Internet. The Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet reported that the boy's mother and grandmother were missing, but later media reports said he was reunited with his grandmother. His father and grandfather were believed to be in another hospital in Thailand, but their exact location and conditions were not immediately known. A U.N. agency has said that one-third of the disaster's victims were children. In Sri Lanka, monks from the predominant Buddhist community held prayers for the dead as bodies were cremated. In Muslim villages, a bulldozer was used to dig mass graves at one spot, while people elsewhere used cooking pots or their hands to bury the dead. |
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| theOriginal |
| 12/29/04 at 10:59:48 |
| [slm] SubhanAllah, really makes you reevaluate your life and what you're doing with it. The new number is somewhere at 68,000? It's a reminder that Allah swt is so close to us always, and He just showed me a big WAKE UP sign. Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi raaji'un. And I really mean it this time. Wasalaam. |
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| Kathy |
| 12/29/04 at 13:24:22 |
| The pictures of the Baiturrahman mosque still standing after the tsunami reminded me of the Golcuk's masjid in Turkey still standing amoung the rubble after their earthquake. [img]http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/imagerepository/pa/1104158146/images/thumbs/0483132.jpg [/img] [img]http://www.islamicweb.com/resources/turkey1.jpg[/img] |
| 12/29/04 at 13:27:28 |
| Kathy |
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| bhaloo |
| 12/29/04 at 23:09:35 |
| [slm] What about the aftershocks? ??? Those would probably be 8.0+. |
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| lala |
| 12/30/04 at 00:05:51 |
| [slm] is it just me or are the indonesian mass graves just a teeny bit off? cant they at least place the bodies in the graves by hand rather than bulldozer? I dont know I guess this stuff is just hard to grasp... disease is easy to come by in such hot climates etc.. I just came across a picture on yahoo that was a bit heartbreaking- hence the reason for the comments above... peace yall.. |
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| jannah |
| 12/30/04 at 01:13:06 |
| lala i know! it is so heartbreaking to see these mass graves with bull dozers just pushing the bodies in there, no ceremony nothing, but they are racing against time.. they said some places have more dead than alive... and imagine ten thousand bodies in one place.. there's just nothing else they can do.. the more they wait the more disease can spread and even double the number dead already... |
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| gift |
| 12/30/04 at 08:22:46 |
| inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un There are reports today of diarrhoea type diseases breaking out in Tamil Nadu...and there's a clip on the BBC news website of bodies being sprayed with disinfectant before being buried. |
| 12/30/04 at 08:24:28 |
| gift |
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| Orange_Tree |
| 12/30/04 at 08:40:47 |
| [slm] I'm sure that everyone on this board is praying for all the ppl affected by this tsunami but if I could just repeat this plea for duas for ppl on this very board who have been affected by this earthquake. Sr Pearl_in_da_mud lives in Indonesia and I have not heard from her at all. Although I expect going online would be the last thing on her mind right now, I'm hoping and praying that inshAllah, she and others in her position are safe and well. This is such an unspeakably awful tragedy. In the UK, the general public have raised £20 million, an 'unprecented' amount in such a short time. The government pledge stands at £15 million. |
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