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CNN Map of nations affected by Sumatra
earthquake-tsunami
DECEMBER 26, 2004: PLANET EARTH
SHAKEN, STIRRED AND RUN OVER BY
SUMATRA INDIAN OCEAN EARTHQUAKE-TSUNAMI:
DAY 44 REPORT AS OF FEBRUARY 9, 2005:
FOUND MORE
DEAD & MISSING = 538,000
1. PVAF REPORT:
HISTORY & EFFECT OF SUMATRA
EARTHQUAKE & TSUNAMI:
2.
WIKIPEDIA REPORT: THE STORY OF SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE & TSUNAMI
3.
LATEST NEWS ON SUMATRA
EARTHQUAKE & TSUNAMI
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to access and review reports
AID TO SUMATRA
TSUNAMI VICTIMS & RECONSTRUCTION:
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TOTAL WORLD AID PLEDGED ( Jan 30/05):
US$5.0
BILLION & growing.
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Nations have pledged $977 million, but
only $360 million has reached the world body's coffers, said Margareta
Wahlstrom, special envoy of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. "This is
our key message to government donors: Please convert your pledges into
hard cash in the bank. It's only cash in the bank that makes it possible
to do work on the ground," she said Monday in Geneva
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Although the United Nations is not
short of funds to maintain its humanitarian relief operations, it warned
that money is still needed in the long run for reconstruction.
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In Sri Lanka, corruption was
hampering aid operations. Officials have been accused of plundering relief
supplies, demanding bribes from tsunami victims, and being drunk on duty.
Several people were suspended last week, with others under investigation.
The U.N. World Food Program will soon dispatch more food aid monitors to
try to “abolish any corruption within the government system,” coordinator
Dawit Getachew said.
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In Indonesia’s Aceh province,
security concerns prompted U.N. officials to consider relocating the base
for the massive international relief effort there. Joel Boutroue, U.N.
deputy humanitarian coordinator, said the United Nations “does not expect
to be a target” of an attack. But he said the walled compound in Banda
Aceh, where 100 aid workers live and work, had “structural weaknesses” and
“is not optimal ... from a security perspective.”
AFTERMATH OF
SUMATRA TSUNAMI
DISASTER:
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A strong 6.2-magnitude tremor struck
around 8.27pm (0027 AEDT), February 10, 2005 Indonesia's tsunami-ravaged
Aceh province, swaying buildings and causing some panicky residents to
flee their homes. The earthquake was centered beneath the Indian Ocean
floor, about 107km southwest of the provincial capital of Banda Aceh, the
Banda Aceh Geophysics Center said. There were no immediate reports of
injuries or damage. The shaking, which lasted less than five seconds, was
felt across a wide swathe of Aceh, on the northern tip of Sumatra island.
Some people in Banda Aceh briefly ran out of their homes until the tremors
subsided.
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New minor earthquakes rattled the
region early Tuesday, February 8, 2005, but there were no reports of
damage or injury. Temblors were felt in Taiwan and Papua New Guinea, which
were unaffected by the disaster.
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The Sumatra earthquake that triggered
the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami was the second largest on record,
it was revealed on February 8, 2005. Professors Seth Stein and Emile Okal,
from Northwestern University in Chicago, found that the earthquake’s
magnitude measured 9.3, not nine as was earlier estimated. This made it
the second largest earthquake seismically recorded after a 9.5 magnitude
quake that hit Chile on May 22, 1960. The new findings, from two American
geologists, may explain why the tsunami was so destructive. Prof Stein
said: “The rupture zone was much larger than previously thought. The
initial calculations that it was a 9.0 earthquake did not take into
account what we call slow slip, where the fault, delineated by
aftershocks, shifted more slowly. The additional energy released by slow
slip along the 1,200-kilometre long fault played a key role in generating
the devastating tsunami.” One piece of good news from the new analysis is
that the chances of another large tsunami occurring in the same area are
reduced.
RETURNING TO LIFE....AMID DISASTER CHAOS
Acehnese couple Sukmadi (L), 36, and his
bride Lidya Nurhayati, 25, feed each other during a wedding ceremony in the
tsunami-devastated city of Banda Aceh on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on
January 30, 2005. T Photo by Kimimasa Mayama/Reuters |
GIVE GENEROUSLY TO
THOSE
SUFFERING
More than 1.7 million people will have to be fed for months, says
the UN
MAY DEPARTED SOULS
REST IN PEACE
.....om shaanti shaanti shaanti....
A Thai of ethnic Chinese descent lights
candles at a temple in the tsunami-hit Thai island of Phuket to remember the
victims on February 4, 2005 during the Chinese New Year celebrations. REUTERS/Bazuki Muhammad
HUMAN SUFFERING
svARgsth (Dead):
296,000+
1/3 dead are children
MISSING: 26,000 to 142,000
Injured: 500,000
Homeless: 1.5 million
- Sri Lanka: 800,000 + 425,000 in refugee camps.
- India: 55,00 in refugee camps
Total Humans Devastated: 5 million
- Indonesia: 243,520
- Sri Lanka: 30,920
- India: 10,672 + 5700 missing
- Thailand: 5,291+3400 missing
- Somalia: 298
- Myanmar: 90
- Maldives: 82
- Malaysia: 68
- Tanzania: 10
- Bangladesh: 2
- Kenya: 1
- Foreigner tourists: 445 dead + 3,000 missing.
WATCH OUT FOR THOSE WHO
CHEAT & LIE
With the outpouring of grief and financial relief has emerged a new threat
to relief efforts in the wake of the Sumatra Tsunami: relief aid fraud. Scam
artists have popped up around the world, in person and online.
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