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[labellementeuse]

:-/ 14 thousand people killed, and growing, in India, Thailand, Bangladesh, Myanmar, malaysia, the Maldives, elsewhere.

Tsunamis are in many ways my greatest fear, in terms of natural disaster, in a practical sense. Tornados? We don't get 'em. Cyclones? Sometimes the tail-end of one, that's all. Drought? Yeah... but Sydney's across the Ditch and that tends to give one a senseof perspective every January. Flood? Sure, but not dramatic. Earthquake? Hey, I live in Wellington, I'm cool with them.

...tsunami? NZ is an island- okay, three islands- and we are low. All our cities are ports, pretty much. And this tsunami was caused by an earthquake offshore of 9.0 Richters. Just last week we had, down south, an 8.4 or 5 richter. It's not all that far off. >.<

So, well, I'm thinking a lot about the people in Southern Asia. it's so surreal, it's like some movie or something, this idea that on the other side of the planet thousands and thousands of people just died. All at once.

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[sixth-light.livejournal.com]

Last week's? What have I missed? The last tsunami I remember hearing about was the one in Papa New Guinea a few years ago.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Um. We missed it because we were drunk last night, but hello, girl, go read your paper, it's front-page news.

[sixth-light.livejournal.com]

You actually think I'm that stupid? I was not referring to the Boxing Day tsunamis. I was querying nzlemming's mention of another tsunami last week, to which he has kindly provided links below - that was an undersea earthquake near Tasmania. I am well aware of Sunday's tragedy.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. ;)

You said it, not me.

Anyway, the earthquake was mentioned here too.

[nzlemming.livejournal.com]

http://www.geonet.org.nz/x2342423g_l.html

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/redir.php?jid=623b92564d287b9d&cat=0b75a2fd5e16e87e because Stuff doesn't have a free archive, the bastids

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2004/12/25/world/9746778&sec=world