"Bob's" X-Mass Quake 05
Correspondent:: "dried greek figs"
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 16:12:21 -0500
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Rev. Stang may want to elaborate further, but I've heard
from old retired USN guys at the Port Charlotte
VFW and Orlando Am Legion Hall that "Bob"
once visited Mistress Fong Vu's House of 12
Delights in the mid-50's while touring with a USO
show in Padang, Sumatra. Rumor goes he was
asked to leave soon after the two 'comfort
women' in the bamboo room got a look at the infamous
36" long '"Bob"choade' and were sent screaming
for fear of being corked up thru and out the throaties....
Sailors said "Bob was heard to say that 'Sumatra would pay' for
this insult someday. (..plus they didn't return his deposit!
BAD MOVE! ) Oh well, this all may be the rantings of some
old grizzled grey seamen at the VFW Hall who've had
4 or 5 too many brown bottles, but it's quite scary
that this MONSTER-quake hit on x-mass day there.......sleep well ; )
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*** "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. *** ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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(WOOOOO HOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!)
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http://tinyurl.com/4vtxy
Asia Quakes' Tsunamis Kill Nearly 10,000
1 hour, 14 minutes ago World - AP Asia
By LELY T. DJUHARI, Associated Press Writer
JAKARTA, Indonesia - 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 Asia. Nearly 10,000 people were killed in
the devastation.
Tourists, fishermen, homes and cars were swept away
by 20' tall 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, witnesses said. At least 4,185 killed
in Indonesia, the country's health ministry said.
In Sri Lanka, 1,000 miles west of the epicenter,
more than 3,000 people were killed, the country's
top police official said; that number, however, does
not include the unconfirmed 1,500 deaths reported
by rebels who control part of the country.
Elsewhere, about 2,300 were reported dead along
the southern coasts of India, at least 289 in
Thailand, 42 in Malaysia and two in Bangladesh.
But officials expected the death toll 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 discarded.
"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 (news - web sites) 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.
Some of the worst devastation 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.
Although Thailand is part of the system, it has not yet been implemented for
the western coast of the Thailand penninsula, where the waves came smashing
ashore Sunday, the scientists said. 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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"prophet Dignitaus III" <117th 4dalolypops@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:81bc2$41ce6509$d1cc41b4$6523@snip.allthenewsgroups.com...
> 8.5 Mag
>
> HERE--> http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/usslav/
>
>
> Where to start ??? ---> HEY ! These things always
> come in CYCLES, despite what the "experts" say.
> Perhaps the SoCAL San Andreas long waiter for
> BIG ONE is NEXT in a few days ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? )
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4125481.stm
>
> http://in.news.yahoo.com/041226/137/2inrv.html
>
> http://tinyurl.com/3qn76
>
> http://tinyurl.com/492wz
>
> www.drudgereport.com
>
> ("Tsunami's-R-Us") --> http://wcatwc.gov/
>
>
Correspondent:: "iDRMRSR"
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 16:51:31 -0500
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So you're saying that Phuket got fucked?
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Correspondent:: HdMrs. Salacia the Overseer
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 17:42:26 -0600
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On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 16:51:31 -0500, "iDRMRSR"
wrote:
>So you're saying that Phuket got fucked?
>
>[*]
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And so did my Dobbstown time share down payment. *doh*
Correspondent:: "dried greek figs"
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 19:42:29 -0500
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"HdMrs. Salacia the Overseer" wrote in
message news:h1jus05l1e9act9rea3k6hp2d1js2f03m5@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 16:51:31 -0500, "iDRMRSR"
> wrote:
>
> >So you're saying that Phuket got fucked?
> >
> >[*]
> >-----
> >
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> And so did my Dobbstown time share down payment. *doh*
Yes on both the above......
Correspondent:: König Prüß, GfbAEV
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 02:45:50 GMT
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iDRMRSR wrote:
> So you're saying that Phuket got fucked?
>
That's what I thought, too!
But evidently Poo'kit got pooked.