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VANCOUVER, B.C. - There appear are at least eight (8) "frames" of preliminary alternative analysis or perception regarding cause-effect cycle of the Earthquake-Tsunami Event of Christmas/Boxing Day 2004.
1. Tectonic (Environmental) Warfare: One "frame" of analysis or perception places the event in the context of Environmental Warfare, as possible tectonic scalar warfare. Background on Tectonic (Seismic)
Warfare:
Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa, author of The Globalization of Poverty, second edition, Common Courage Press, 2000. "The important debate on global warming under UN auspices provides but a partial picture of climate change; in addition to the devastating impacts of greenhouse gas emissions on the ozone layer, the World's climate can now be modified as part of a new generation of sophisticated "non-lethal weapons." Both the Americans and the Russians have developed capabilities to manipulate the World's climate. "In the US, the technology is being perfected under the High-frequency Active Aural Research Program (HAARP) as part of the ("Star Wars") Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI). Recent scientific evidence suggests that HAARP is fully operational and has the ability of potentially triggering floods, droughts, hurricanes and earthquakes. From a military standpoint, HAARP is a weapon of mass destruction. Potentially, it constitutes an instrument of conquest capable of selectively destabilising agricultural and ecological systems of entire regions. "While there is no evidence that this deadly technology has been used, surely the United Nations should be addressing the issue of "environmental warfare" alongside the debate on the climatic impacts of greenhouse gases." FULL ARTICLE AT: http://www.mindfully.org/Air/Climate-Change-Weapons.htm
Incredible Coincidence: A massive earthquake in Asia unleashed tsunamis killing thousands, exactly one year to the hour after the Bam, Iran earthquake killed 26,000. What are the odds of two of the most destructive earthquakes in decades occuring exactly one year apart- almost to the minute! Monday 27th December 2004 (16h57) http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=4894 Asia Earthquake kills +24,000 EXACTLY one year after Iran quake killed 26,000 Incredible Coincidence: A massive earthquake in Asia unleashed tsunamis killing thousands, exactly one year to the hour after the Bam, Iran earthquake killed 26,000. What are the odds of two of the most destructive earthquakes in decades occuring exactly one year apart- almost to the minute! December 26, 2003 - Bam, Iran, only 6.6 on the richter scale, but quake is centered directly under the city- 26,000 dead. "Bam (SE Iran) earthquake of 26 December
2003, Mw6.5: A Preliminary Reconnaissance Report"
December 26, 2004 - Centered off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the massive quake, which measured 9.0 on the richter scale, unleashed tidal waves across the Indian Ocean. Toll tops 24,000 as disease fear grows International aid agencies were rushing to avert the spread of disease in tsunami-devastated coastal regions across southern Asia last night as the number of people reported to have been swept to their deaths passed more than 24,000. A day after the world’s biggest earthquake in 40 years unleashed a catastrophic surge of giant waves across the Indian Ocean, authorities in the worst-affected countries were battling to head off an even bigger toll among those who survived the initial surge. Millions of survivors have lost everything, and now urgently need medicine, shelter, food and clean water. "This is a massive humanitarian disaster and the communications are so bad we still don’t know the full scale of it. Unless we get aid quickly to the people many more could die," said Phil Esmond, head of Oxfam in Sri Lanka. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/12/27/1103996496448.html 2003: Ancient City Destroyed, Bam has never experienced a quake like this since the city’s inception, judged to be between 250 BC - 224 AD. 2004: "Nothing like this has ever happened in our country before," Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7179495 2003 Iran Quake: December 26 01:56:52 UTC 2004 Asia Quake: December 26 00:58:55 UTC Exactly one year apart to-the-hour, 58 minutes shy of being to-the-minute! This an amazing coincidence- or is it more than coincidence? The United States government has the capability of creating earthquakes with HAARP (Ed: See Articles At:) http://www.google.com/search?btnG=Google+Search&q=haarp%20earthquakes And there is a motive for this timing: to distract the populace, especially during the holiday season when many Americans getting together in large family gatherings, perhaps the only opportunity for many to talk with their family about the unjust war in Iraq and the war crimes perpetrated by our government. Last year Americans were greeted with Bush’s ’heartwarming’ generosity. He offered to lend aid to a member of the ’axis of evil’ when tragedy struck. Republicans across America had ammo for their Christmas dinner conversations: "How can you say Bush is not compassionate? He’s helping the axis of evil, now that’s Christian." This year the motive is to focus the news on the tragedy, away from the Ukraine re-vote and election reversal. It is undeniable that certain people in power do not want Americans to connect the dots between Ukraine exit polls, a re-vote and victory for the opposition. Are there any statisticians willing to crunch the numbers- what are the odds of these two catastrophic events occuring Exactly one year to-the-hour apart? by : Lucy Xien
Continue reading article at: http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=4894
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/12/306936.shtml An Act of God or Government? author: peace rebel girl in today's world, we must consider all possibilities. after 9.11 people were loathe to belive that the government had anything to do with the toppling of the twin towers; now it is common knowledge. could it be that the weather was manipulated for a political means, say, genocide of muslims? i have juxtaposed two maps in an attempt to show a possible reason for a man-made disaster. one is a map of the countries hardest hit by the earthquake/tsunami, the other is a map showing the greatest concentration of the muslim population (69 percent worldwide in Asia.)
i don't claim to have any knowledge about waether control, but there are plenty of websites to learn more. here's one for starters: The Ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction: "Owning the Weather" for Military Use http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO409F.html i'll leave you with this final thought. according to an article that i read at http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp..., there was foreknowledge of the tsunami. an alert was sent out, in the form of an e-mail, an e-mail! why would an e-mail be sent versus picking up the telephone? "We put out a bulletin within 20 minutes, technically as fast as we could do it," said Jeff LaDouce, an official in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. LaDouce noted that they e-mailed Indonesian officials, but said that he wasn't aware what happened after they sent the e-mails. sort of like the scrambler jets that took
forever to reach the twin towers...
Scalar Warfare Comment:
93% of All US Ships At Sea - Why?
HAARP Can Cause GRID BLACKOUTS (NYC, 2002)--&
EARTHQUAKES? A Report.
Iran earthquake triggered by HAARP?
Folks, it's just my opinion, but I believe that Iran was hit with an earthquake by means of HAARP, here is why: I remember reading yesterday (I believe on a link from Propaganda Matrix and LibertyThink.com) on CyberSpaceOrbit.com about HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) being turned on at the same time that the terror color alert was issued (HAARP comes on in idle Hi-power mode just after High terror alert issued). I told one of my friends that I wouldn't be surprised if we started getting hit with earthquakes, volcanoes, or some other condition that HAARP reportedly causes (HAARP Home Page - Radar Matrix - HAARP.net). I then got a phone call this morning as I was on the way back home, that Iran was hit with a massive earthquake with reported deaths at around 5,000-6,000 (Iran Quake Reportedly Kills 5,000-6,000). Once I arrived home, I began pulling articles and have found that now the number is estimated more closely to 20,000 (Thousands Feared Dead in Iran Earthquake). I began talking to my friend Eric Hufschmid about this, in which case he sent me a copy of recent massive earthquakes (Data of MAJOR Earthquakes within the past 5 days)... NOTICE HOW THERE HAVE BEEN 8 MAJOR EARTHQUAKES (7 listed on the article, 8 listed on the Govt's website) THAT HAVE BEEN OCCURRING SINCE DECEMBER 21st?! BUT YET THE NEWS IS TRYING TO WHITEWASH THIS BY LISTING MAJOR EARTHQUAKES SINCE 1923, AS IF THIS IS A RANDOM AND NATURAL OCCURRENCE?! (Raw Data: Major Earthquakes Since 1923). They even go so far as to call it "raw data" --- GIVE ME A BREAK! I then called my friend and told her that I'm sure there will be a press conference, that will try and justify this as a convenient excuse to invade, er, help Iran (White House Offers Aid to Iran After Earthquake) --- even though we were gearing up to invade them a while back... (U.S. Accuses Iran of Trying to Make Nuclear Weapons - In-House Memos on Television and Print Media News Presentations - Project for the New American Empire & Archie's Comments) Now I can only wonder what pre-text we're going to use to go after Syria, since it appears that we'll now use this to get Iran.
HAARP - Part 3 - Radar Evidence EXCERPT:
T"he weather radar systems referred to (and displayed on the above website) may have been picking up HAARP transmissions, the "Silent Sound" transmissions noted by Alex Constantine, or perhaps both! Perhaps Silent Sound is being used in conjunction with HAARP. Whichever, I find it just about impossible to believe that it was some coincidence that these totally unnatural concentric circular energy patterns and other unnatural formations such as perfectly straight lines showed up on radar exactly where unbelievably severe weather conditions occurred, and also where the terrible violence of the Jonesboro massacre occurred, knowing what we know about EM/RF weather modification and mind control operations. These radar systems have been registering electromagnetic disturbances which are directly connected to seismic activity as well, which may indicate even more malevolent operations using HAARP technology. "One of the more covert of HAARP's seemingly countless agendas is that HAARP transmissions can be used for detecting and monitoring electromagnetic or plasma phenomena which are precursors of seismic activity and tectonic movement; indications are that HAARP transmissions can be (and conceivably ARE BEING) used to activate or TRIGGER exactly these same electromagnetic conditions which can cause tectonic movement-- in other words, HAARP potentially has the ability to cause EARTHQUAKES!" FULL ARTICLE AT:
Iraq: World's First Scalar War?
The following article may tend to support the scalar warfare hypothesis: http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.net/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=41474
As does this preliminary email analysis by a radio journalist. This analysis does not imply that the source of the Earthquake-Tsunami warfare was Russian, only that the technology may exist. December 26, 2004 "Following are selected statements by Tom Bearden from an interview a few years ago on the Coast to Coast radio programme. I just happened to be listening to this tape last night when emails of the series of devastating earthquakes arrived at my computer. Was this technology used to create the quakes? Read on and decide for yourself." Scalar Waves as a Weapon
Bearden: When you use longitudinal waves you get some extraordinary capabilities. If you could make a pure (longitudinal wave) it travels at an infinite velocity and has infinite energy. (We) make waves that go faster than the speed of light. They don’t have (the very high energies of longitudinal waves). For example Nimtz and his colleagues transmitted through a barrier and a wave guide Mozart’s 40th symphony at something like 4.7 times the speed of light. Several nations of the earth, (including Russia under the KGB), have been (developing longitudinal wave electromagnetic weapons) for decades. Bearden: (The USSR, now Russia) has had (scalar weapons) for years and years and (have used it for) weather modification. The first weather modification that they did over North America was in 1967. The signature was perfectly round holes appearing in clouds and it gave us the anomalous and very rigorous winter we had that year. They opened up full time weather engineering over North America, and it spread through the rest of the world, on July 4th, 1976. That was their bicentennial gift to the US. They have a sense of humour. Bearden: Well in 1975 some of these weapons were so frightful that Brezhnev called them “more frightful than the mind of man could ever imagine.” And he actually had Gromeko in that year introduce to the United Nations a draft treaty to stop the production of new weapons of mass destruction again. And what he was referring to was these waves and these kinds of weapons using longitudinal waves. Scalar waves are (somewhat similar) but you start with longitudinal waves to get them. A scalar potential is made of longitudinal waves. If you make longitudinal waves, which you can make with plasma and some other things, and then if you interfere these longitudinal waves, you produce the ordinary stuff that we were talking about. You can make heat energy or you can make cooling energy. You can make it diverge to make heat or you can make it converge to produce cooling. And you can do that at a distance. Bearden: Longitudinal waves don’t pack a great deal of mass. They interact fairly weakly but they do interact. But because they interact weakly they go great distances through mass. In other words you can pass longitudinal waves right through the ocean or right through the earth. And you can hear of them on the other side. Bearden: The Russians deployed the first major (longitudinal) weapons in April 1963. And the first test they used was to kill the USS Thresher atomic submarine off the east coast of the United States. And one day later they put a huge burst underneath the water 100 miles north of Puerto Rico. That burst was sighted by the crew and folks on board one of our jet airliners and was reported to the FBI and the Coast Guard. A column of water rose up (out of the ocean) about a mile high, turned into a mushroom cloud, and fell back into the water. There was one test one day that killed the latest attack submarine that we had. The second was to show what you could do with a giant burst underneath the water. What they do to engineer the weather is very simple. What you do is take a place and you create a little hot air (creating a low pressure area). Then you cool it in another area (creating a high pressure area). And by steering the hot spots and the cold spots, you can actually entrain the jet streams and steer them. So actually what you are doing is steering the weather. We haven’t had normal weather over North America since July 4th, 1976. Since you can put the things under water, instead of having a big burst by pulsing the weapons, what you do is put the beams to cross and gradually heat the water if you want to heat it or you gradually cool it if you want to cool it. So you can create an El Nino or a la Nina. You can wind up having large scale effects on the weather. If you start to create the energy inside a fault zone, for example, as the energy builds up, the rocks are piezoelectric and expand mechanically as you put more energy into them and gradually the rocks will then slip and you will have an earthquake. If you really get desperate and you need an earthquake really bad, you can pulse the energy and put it in the rock whether there’s a fault zone or not, and it will blast its way in there. The earthquake weapon follows straight forward and once you can do longitudinal wave interferometry, you can do that at a distance into the earth or through the earth or in the ocean.
RESOURCES - FULL BACKGROUND RESEARCH ON TECTONIC WARFARE: Environmental War Desk:
2. "Unknown Energy Surges" Frame: Another "frame" of analysis or perception notes that "Unknown Energy Surges Continue to Hit Planet Causing Massive Earthquakes in Southern Hemispheric Regions" and states: "Many questions relating to these immediate and unfolding events in our Southern Hemisphere remain unanswered by the world’s scientists, and maybe due to their not knowing the answers, such as the region of space these ‘blasts’ are coming from and if many more are expected. As I had previously reported too, Dr. Eun-Suk Seo from the United States University of Maryland, and her international team, working under the direction of NASA have launched a stratospheric balloon (December 20th) from Antarctica’s McMurdo base in a frantic attempt to find answers, but as of now no findings have been publicly released. I can think of no other words then ones I have previously used, to end this report: Whatever the end results these experiments reveal for these scientists, it remains an undisputed fact that this world of ours is facing a type of global cataclysmic event buried in our common geological past, and maybe, as some social scientists report, in our common ancestral memory also." FULL ARTICLE AT: http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index614.htm
3. Solar Cycle 23 Frame: Another alternative "frame" of analysis correlates the Earthquake-Tsunami event to Solar Cycle 23, through the lens of Western Prophetic Traditions. FULL ARTICLE AT: http://www.truinsight.com/SOLAR%20CYCLE%2023%20.htm
4. Meteorite Frame: EVIDENCE FOR SUMATRA 9.0 QUAKE LEANS TOWARDS METEORITE http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index624.htm December 28, 2004 Evidence for Sumatra 9.0 Quake Leans towards Meteorite Strike By: Sorcha Faal As more scientific information begins to become available relating to the events surrounding the 9.0 earthquake off of the Northern Coast of Sumatra on December 26th, it is being reported that the depth was 10km. More importantly perhaps are the growing signs surrounding this event that rather than being caused by internal earth dynamics, as is being widely reported, it was instead caused by an extraterrestrial event, a meteorite strike into the ocean having come from the Southern Hemispheric skies. Australian researcher Professor Ted Bryant had previously warned about just such an event happening in his book, Tsunami - The Underrated Hazard. He also ‘backed up his dire warning’ with a time and a date: 8pm on February 22, 1491, when a meteorite strike caused tsunami waves in excess of 130 meters high. Further research for the Australian Spaceguard Survey by Michael Paine, and titled “Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts”, shows that an asteroid having a diameter of 2 km would be equal to 1,000,000 MT. Mr. Paine states, “When an asteroid hits the ocean at 70 000km/h there is a gigantic explosion. The asteroid and water vaporize and leave a huge crater - typically 20 times the diameter of the asteroid (that is, a 100m asteroid will create a 2 kilometre diameter crater). The water rushes back in, overshoots to create a mountain of water at the middle and this spreads out as a massive wave - a tsunami. The centre of the "crater" oscillates up and down several times and a series of waves radiate out.” Lending credence to the suspicions of a meteorite strike causing this event have been a number of world reports relating to fireballs, mysterious lights in the sky around the world and exploding meteorites turning ‘night into day’ in both Indonesia and China over these past few weeks.
5. Asteroid Flyby Frame: I think your whole post on this subject (Asteroid near-earth flyby at Christmastime) is an excellent summary of some of the finer attitudes to be found in genuine Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. (for an example of excellence in modern Islamic perspective, see http://www.harunyahya.com/). Also, here's some more info on what you mentioned: # Dec 24 - Cassini,
Huygens Probe Release
2004 VW14 Orbital Elements
6. Global Warming Frame: Media Linking
Killer Tsunami to Global Warming
(CNSNews.com) - With the world's attention focused on the earthquake/tsunami that has claimed tens of thousands of lives in at least ten countries that surround the Indian Ocean, media organizations like Reuters are pinning part of the blame for the catastrophe on "global warming." "A creeping rise in sea levels tied to global warming, pollution and damage to coral reefs may make coastlines even more vulnerable to disasters like tsunamis or storms in [the] future," wrote Alister Doyle, an environmental correspondent for Reuters, who attributed the opening paragraph of the story to "experts." However, Doyle's story did not contain any quotes directly mentioning the theory of global warming. Instead, Doyle's narrative referred to the controversial subject. "Global warming, poorly planned coastal development and other threats over which humans have some control are weakening natural defenses ranging from mangrove swamps to coral reefs that help keep the oceans at bay," Doyle wrote. Brad Smith of the environmental group Greenpeace was quoted in the Reuters story, but only as follows: "Coasts are under threat in many countries ... Development of roads, shrimp farms, ribbon development along coasts and tourism are eroding natural defenses in Asia." According to Doyle, "Scientists say a build-up of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere from human burning of fossil fuels threatens to trigger more powerful storms and raise sea levels, exposing coasts to more erosion. "Island nations like the Maldives, swamped by the tsunami, could literally disappear beneath the waves if seas rise," Doyle added in the Reuters story without using expert quotes to back up the assertion. "[I]n Bangladesh, 17 million people live less than one meter above sea level, as do many in Florida in the United States," Doyle reported. Richard Klein, a senior researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, was quoted on how poor regions of the world are more vulnerable to natural disasters. "Vulnerability has as much a social dimension as an environmental one," Klein told Reuters. Two weeks ago, at a United Nations climate change conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Cybercast News Service reporter Marc Morano spoke with a former member of Greenpeace who had just urged people attending the conference to ignore the issue of global warming. "Climate change is a huge thing, but there is very little that we can do about it," Bjorn Lomborg told Morano. Lomborg, an associate professor of statistics at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, said world governments would be wise to worry less about climate change and concentrate instead on problems he considers solvable, like AIDS, poverty and inadequate sanitation.
7. Planetary Alignment Frame: The
mega quake and Tsunami was predictable with Indian scientists’ planetary
angular momentum theory – major worldwide earthquakes may happen soon!
8. Spiritual "Frame":EARTH CHANGES:
A Spiritual Approach.
NEWS UPDATES: Ongoing Updates:
December 29, 2004
TSUNAMI WARNING WAS STOPPED! Breaking News and Commentary
from Citizens for Legitimate Government
Swedish online newspaper: Tsunami warning was stopped (posted by CLiss, democraticunderground.com --source: Expressen, Swedish online newspaper) "Just minutes after the earthquake in the Indian Ocean on Sunday morning, Thailand's foremost meteorological experts were sitting together in a crisis meeting. But they decided not to warn about the tsunami 'out of courtesy to the tourist industry', writes the Thailand daily newspaper, The Nation. The experts got the news around 8:00 am on Sunday morning local time. An hour later, the first massive wave struck. But the experts started to discuss the economic impacts when they were discussing if a tsunami warning should be made..." [Original article, in Swedish: Varning för dödsvågen stoppades --Bara minuterna efter jordbävningen i Indiska oceanen på söndagsmorgonen satt Thailands främsta meteorologiska experter i krismöte. Men de avstod från en tsunamivarning "av hänsyn till turistnäringen", skriver den thailändska dagstidningen The Nation... Få experter --...Andra källor vid mötet har sagt till The Nation att en tsunamivarning diskuterades men att riskerna nedvärderades och att man beslöt att inte utfärda en varning. - Den avgörande faktorn i det beslutet var att turistsäsongen var i full gång med nära 100-procentig hotellbeläggning.] Scientists in USA saw tsunami coming --Minutes after a massive earthquake rocked the Indian Ocean on Sunday, international ocean monitors knew that a tsunami would likely follow. But they didn't know whom to tell. "We put out a bulletin within 20 minutes, technically as fast as we could do it," says Jeff LaDouce of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. LaDouce says e-mails were dispatched to Indonesian officials, but he doesn't know what happened to the information. Swedish paper reports tsunami warning halted out of concern for tourist industry Tsunami warning halted ‘for tourist industry’
12/28/04 -- This from the Swedish paper Expressen. Just minutes after the earthquake in the Indian Ocean on Sunday morning, Thailand’s foremost meteorological experts were sitting together in a crisis meeting. But they decided not to warn about the tsunami “out of courtesy to the tourist industry,” writes the Thailand daily newspaper The Nation. The experts got the news around 8:00 am on Sunday morning local time. An hour later, the first massive wave struck. But the experts started to discuss the economic impacts when they discussed if a tsunami warning should be issued. The primary argument against such a warning was that there had not been any floods in 300 years. Also, the experts believed the Indonesian island Sumatra would be a “cushion” for the southern coast of Thailand. The experts also had bad information; they thought the tremor was 8.1. A similar earthquake occurred in the same area in 2002 with no flooding at all. One expert The Nation spoke with also noted
that the department had only four earthquake experts among their
“We finally decided not to do anything because the tourist season was in full swing,” the source said. “The hotels were 100 percent booked. What if we issued a warning, which would have led to an evacuation, and nothing had happened. What would be the outcome? The tourist industry would be immediately hurt. Our department would not be able to endure a lawsuit.” This story was first noted and originally translated at Democratic Underground. Scientists in USA saw tsunami coming
- NOAA e-mailed warnings to Asia
By Dan Vergano
Minutes after a massive earthquake rocked the Indian Ocean on Sunday, international ocean monitors knew that a tsunami would likely follow. But they didn't know whom to tell. ?We put out a bulletin within 20 minutes, technically as fast as we could do it,? says Jeff LaDouce of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. LaDouce says e-mails were dispatched to Indonesian officials, but he doesn't know what happened to the information. The problem is that Sunday's earthquake struck the unmonitored Indian Ocean. An international system of buoys and monitoring stations - the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center based in Hawaii - spans the Pacific, alerting nations there to any oncoming disasters. But no such system guards the Indian Ocean. (There isn't one in the Atlantic Ocean because there are comparatively few earthquakes there. LaDouce says efforts are being made in the Caribbean to set up a warning system after last year's tsunami caused by the volcanic collapse on the island of Montserrat.) ?Sumatra has an ample history of great earthquakes, which makes the lack of a tsunami warning system in the Indian Ocean all the more tragic,? says geologist Brian Atwater of the U.S. Geological Survey. ?Everyone knew Sumatra was a loaded gun.? On Monday, Asian government officials, notably in India, discussed plans to coordinate efforts to develop an Indian Ocean system. ?It's a people problem, not a technology problem,? says geophysicist Teng-fong Wong of the State University of New York-Stony Brook. ?Governments just have to cooperate.? In fact, the detector buoys that monitor tsunami surges have been available for decades. They record water heights and send measurements throughout the Pacific network. False alarms are a concern, slowing the speed with which bulletins can be released. A 1986 false alarm in Hawaii cost more than $30 million in evacuation costs. LaDouce notes that warnings are of little use without evacuation plans, given how quickly a tsunami can travel. Tsunami waves struck Sumatra minutes after the quake and hit Thailand within an hour. ?Even if you give the tourist resorts in Thailand a half-hour's notice, it is no easy matter to evacuate vast swaths of coastland,? he says. ?You have to plan and train people. And then do it all over again.? Where are all the dead animals? Sri Lanka asks http://www.alertnet.org/printable.htm?URL=/thenews/newsdesk/COL136356.htm 29 Dec 2004 07:21:00 GMT
Giant waves washed floodwaters up to 3 km (2 miles) inland at Yala National Park in the ravaged southeast, Sri Lanka's biggest wildlife reserve and home to hundreds of wild elephants and several leopards. "The strange thing is we haven't recorded any dead animals," H.D. Ratnayake, deputy director of the national Wildlife Department, told Reuters on Wednesday. "No elephants are dead, not even a dead hare or rabbit," he added. "I think animals can sense disaster. They have a sixth sense. They know when things are happening." At least 40 tourists, including nine Japanese, were drowned. The tsunami was triggered by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean on Sunday, which sent waves up to 5-metres (15-feet) high crashing onto Sri Lanka's southern, eastern and northern seaboard, flooding whole towns and villages, destroying hotels and causing widespread destruction.
UPDATES: NEWS SOURCES: from: SPACEDAILY EXPRESS - December 26-27, 2004 Special Report - Indian Ocean Tsunami Disaster
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*** First Report *** - Quake rocks north of Indonesia's Sumatra
island
*** Lead Roundups *** - Tidal wave quake hit 9.0 on Richter scale:
US Geological Survey
- UN leads world answer to desperate pleas
for help after wave disaster
- Death toll from Asian quake, tidal waves
nears 11,500
- No warning system in place for tsunami-hit
countries: USGS
- Magnitude of Sumatra quake raised to
8.9 on Richter scale
- Deadly earthquakes worldwide in the past
century
- 8.9 Sumatra quake fifth-largest since
1900: USGS
- Asia's worst earthquakes since
1970
- Asian quake hits one year on from
Bam disaster
- Asian super-quake largest in four
decades
- Giant walls of water leave trail
death and destruction across Asia
- UN sends disaster teams to help
Asia tsunami victims
- European tourists tell of death
and devastation from killer waves
- New York, US East Coast also face
tsunami threat: scientists
*** Tourist Resorts *** - Foreign tourists missing as tidal waves
slam Thailand's Phuket resort
- Fears for thousands of foreign
tourists in Asian tidal wave zone
- Pakistan calls for global effort
to deal with Asia quake
*** Sri Lanka *** - More than 4,300 killed in Sri Lanka's
worst-ever disaster
- Tidal waves cause havoc in Sri Lanka
- Thousands displaced as massive tidal
waves hit Sri Lanka
- Sri Lanka president appeals for doctors
to help in catastrophe
- Shaken tourists wish for another Sri
Lanka holiday without drama
- 300 Sri Lankan convicts escape as tsunami
destroys jail
*** India *** - Indian armed forces deploy to help victims
of massive tsunami
- India dispatches aid and medicine after
killer tsunamis, offers help
- Giant wall of water washes away thousands
of lives, homes in India
- At least 2,600 dead as tidal waves devastate
southern India
- Indian death toll from tidal waves
rises above 2,600
*** Thailand *** - Tsunami-hit locations among the
tourist jewels of Indian Ocean
- Foreign tourists missing as tidal waves
slam Thailand's Phuket resort
- Fears for thousands of foreign tourists
in Asian tidal wave zone
- 'Everyone at the beach died': Polish
tourist in Thai tidal wave
- Death, devastation swamp Thailand's
tsunami-stricken resort island Phuket
*** Africa *** - Deadly waves from Asia quake hit African
coast
- African nations clear Indian Ocean
beaches at risk from killer waves
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