22000 Dead.

[AJ]

over 23000 and counting dead now and I read this quote :

"The death toll rose almost hourly Monday, a day after the 9.0-magnitude quake struck deep beneath the Indian Ocean off the coast of Indonesia and unleashed towering waves that sped away from the epicenter at over 500 mph before crashing into the region’s shorelines."

Just un fucking real. MSN has some video of the aftermath.

[LightningGSX]

Thats a bunch of BS about the tsunami warning system.The governments knew about the earthquake hours before the waves hit, they should've put out a warning.Tidal wave are inevitable when earthquakes happen in oceans, even small quakes can make some large tidal waves, and this quake was a 9.0.

[AJ]

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Maps/Asia-Pacific/m_IndoQuake_325p.gif

[LightningGSX]

Fucking rediculous, 12000 people dead in Sri Lanka alone, and its an easy 1000 miles(2+ hours) from the epicenter.

[Halon]

Ya that's crazy. No I wansn't affected by this at all. The morning it happened I had people IMing me asking if I felt it, but I didn't feel a thing, heck I didn't even know about it. You all probably know more then me because I only have 1 TV channel here, no cable, nothing.

[1slowdsm]

waves moving at 500 mph...thats just unbelievably crazy. Its worst than getting hit bt a speeding car.
They had Bill Nye talking about the earthquake this morning and I just stood there and listened. Its so crazy how it works how it did.

[Jana]

They say the death toll is now up to 44,000 and still thousands of people missing. :(

Brandon, I wasn't sure if anyone from your area would be sent to help with the cleanup, etc. They said they were sending American troops over to see what could be done.

[FattyBoomBatty]

i was in fargo and their paper said something about the quake messing up the earth's rotation or something. or just changing it somehow.

anyone see anything about that? it seems redonkulous that it could really have any major effect on the planet as a whole.

btw, on the whole earth topic, there's an asteroid that might hit us in 24 years.

[ABV]

That is just absolutely mind boggling.

One of my coworkers was born in India, and most of his family is still over there. They live in the southern part by the point, but more inland so they weren't effected by it as much.

[JDM]

The earths rotation was affected very little by the wave. It's like when you're carrying a big bucket of water, and the water is sloshing around inside of the bucket.

As for the 500mph water... Your insides would be instant mush. They say hitting water flat on is like hitting concrete for a good distance at a good speed when falling, I can't imagine...

At least for a good portion of the people, the death was quick. With the floods, I sure hope that most of the people didn't drown. I would hate to drown.

I sure hope gov'ts are doing something to prevent this from ever happening again.