[thechat] Tsunami toll: (way higher)
javier velasco
lists at mantruc.com
Wed Jan 5 12:54:56 CST 2005
I agree that this was a terrible disaster and nobody deserved it. My
sincerest condolences to Madhu's country and any fellow evolter who was
affected.
Many coutries had victims, I believe Chile is one of the few lucky
countries that has been able to find all of its survivors/victims (just
because there weren't as many citizens in the area).
Now we're starting to hear amazing stories of how people survived. Like
that baby atop a roof, or the woman who floated with a palm tree.
One great story I've seen about this, is a tribe that survived because
they noticed their animals were upset and escaping to the hills, they
followed the animals uphill and the whole tribe survived... talk about
sustainable alarm systems!
More people could have survived if we were more aware of nature. I also
heard about a natural refuge that was hit where all the animals survived.
I also love the story of the little girl who ran the alarm because she
had recently studied tsunamis in school, education can go a long way.
I'm wondering if there could be a global kind of detection system for
these kinds of events.
Another shocking story is that of the Prime Minister of Holland, who
arrived on vacation to the area on the day after, and was apparently
unmooved by the situation, just asked not to be bothered on his
vacation. I don't have much info on this piece, if any of you know more
about this character, I'd be interested in figuring it out, seems
unbelievable to me.
I"ve also found out that the strongest recorded earthquake was the one
in Valdivia, Chile in 1960, at 9.5 degrees. The tsunami it generated
killed people in Hawaii and Japan - across the whole Pacific. I'm sure
there weren't as many victims then as the area is less densely populated
and the hills are higher, but there are still boats over the hills
nowdays, witness of that episode.
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