Tidle Wave In Asia? Confused??

jjgold · Dec 29, 2004

I have been watching the films of it and I still cannot understand how so many people died?? CNN I think not being more detailed about it. Did most die from earthquake or waves??

Secondly it seems water did not go that far inland or did it?? How deep was it???

Why did some people that had direct hits live??? Was not being able to swim a big factor for locals??

Maybe we did not see big tidle wave or waves?? How many were there??

It on tv seemed like a few big waves and some flooding so I would of assumed just people real close to beach would of died. I guess there were tons of people on beach. I am not familiar with area though. Did ocean come way inland and way deep and that is what killed them??

What killed them?? Force of water??

If this happened at night would death toll of been greatly reduced??

I think the news is not really expaing it right or asking righ questions

Terrible tradegy and never seen anything like it

Fishhead · Dec 29, 2004

JJ- I am guessing it hit a large EXTENDED area of shoreline for starters..........miles and miles and miles of shoreline.

Scary and tragic

blueedwards · Dec 29, 2004

a video has not yet surfaced that shows the actual waves that caused all the destruction. the videos that i have seen on the news don't look all that bad.

the witnesses who lived talked about a wave 35 feet high that slammed into the beaches at 500 mph. the water rushed in hundreds of yards and destroyed beachfront bungalows, ripped people out of the first floor hotel rooms, killed people who happened to be on the beach, knocked trains off tracks, knocked buses and cars off roads. after the first wave hit, the second wave was coming....before the 2nd wave hit, a lot of the water was sucked back into the ocean. this dragged all those people into the ocean, drowning them. then, when the second wave hit, the dead were deposited on the beach...some into the trees.

my guess is that we have not yet seen the parts of the countries that were affected the worst because they can't get to them yet.

WorldRunner · Dec 29, 2004

blue edwards said:
a video has not yet surfaced that shows the actual waves that caused all the destruction.

Seen any of these?

http://ish.cc/dan/ts/tsunamiphuket.wmv
http://hosted.hytekhosting.us/tsunamis/sri_lanka_tsunami.wmv

http://hosted.hytekhosting.us/tsunamis/tsunamiphuket.wmv
http://ish.cc/dan/ts/sri_lanka_tsunami.wmv

http://hosted.hytekhosting.us/tsunamis/patong_beach.wmv
http://ish.cc/dan/ts/patong_beach.wmv

Doug · Dec 29, 2004

My take : No warning at all, people lived on coast, tidal wave moved nearly at speed of sound, just huge ! Not like a hurricane in Florida where you can see it coming.

Primitive construction of dwellings, poor people barely surviving. All in all just too much too handle. Societies develop near ports, or water at least.

If it hit Alaska, you might have an hour to warn So. Cal. It's just awesome in it's power !

No time to evacuate ! It's more like a tornado hitting you in Oklahoma, but far worse. You can't predict the tornado or outrun it, just take shelter. You are just screwed with this natural event. A wave moving at you close to the speed of sound !

WildBill · Dec 29, 2004

JJ you live near the shore, haven't you ever been swimming in the water when a wave hit? If you try to take it standing up the thing knocks you around good and that is just a small wave. This thing was massive, far more power than a normal wave. Supposing you survived the force of it hitting you, then you have to be able to keep your head above water for many minutes as the wave just takes you in any direction it wants. Along the way there are buildings and debris you could hit at high speed. Try hitting a telephone pole at say 25 to 30 miles per hour without seeing it before you smash into it. Water is an extremely powerful force. Here in the desert they always tell you not to take your car into even a foot of moving water as that can be enough to drag it away to somewhere dangerous. This is 30 feet of water and carrying who knows what below the surface in countries with far more density of population that we could ever imagine.

volhound · Dec 29, 2004

it's the damndest thing I have ever seen

it will end up being over 100,000 dead before it is all over

that is like my beloved neyland stadium full of people -- all dead
i cannot comprehend
pray

TheGeneral+ · Dec 29, 2004

A tragedy beyond belief. It is like watching the movie, The Day after Tomorrow.

RobFunk · Dec 29, 2004

the witnesses who lived talked about a wave 35 feet high that slammed into the beaches at 500 mph.

This is 30 feet of water and carrying who knows what below the surface in countries with far more density of population that we could ever imagine.

it will end up being over 100,000 dead before it is all over

that paints the scene of a very grim catastrophe of mammoth proportions.

they also said the stench is so incredibly bad, that people have to walk around with cloths over half their faces.

SportSavant · Dec 29, 2004

FOLKS,

if this happened in North America, deaths would have been MINIMAL.

There is no Infrastructure in these countries....

Big part of the reason....

JJ, you are right.... THE NUMBERS SEEM ASTOUNDING... 60K

As many Americans that Died in Vietnam.......

20 Times that of the 911....

Incredible!!!!

RobFunk · Dec 29, 2004

just imagine the amount of bacteria everywhere

winkyduck · Dec 29, 2004

as others have pointed out - the fact a lot of these buildings weren't exactly made of the finest materials out there helped contribute to the number of dead.

if this happened here in the USA - and even w/o any warning - the number of dead would have been significant - but nowhere near the numbers here.

jjgold · Dec 29, 2004

Some good info here boys, I think this thing stretched over such a long coastline that is why so many deaths and I cannot beleive anyone could of died over 300 yards inland unless I am misinformed.

Thanks

WildBill · Dec 29, 2004

It would cause more monetary damage here, but certainly less deaths. The number of deaths would be lower not because of infrastructure though, it would be because we have far less population density on our coasts. These waves hit a number of highly populated countries. Sri Lanka is about the size of West Virginia, one of our smallest states. In that area almost 20 million people live, almost the same population as Texas, our second most populated state. The coast of India is even more densely populated. There is very little infrastructure can do to prevent deaths from a tsunami. Maybe our warning system would be more advanced and save some lives, but depending on where the wave is created there may not even be time for that. Lets not all kid ourselves here and throw the blame where it doesn't belong, there is little governments can do when this many people live so close together.

What does amaze me is there are years when thousands of people die from flooding in places like India and especially Bangladesh, and it happens a couple times a decade it seems. These events rarely make much news like this. It is just the sensationalism that comes with earthquakes and then hitting a very popular tourist area that seems to be driving this sort of media coverage.

TheGeneral+ · Dec 29, 2004

No matter how you look at it and map it out, God help those living on the coasts anywhere that this would happen. I don't want to see the answer to "What if?"

winbet · Dec 29, 2004

Like everybody else, I find it hard to comprehend. I heard from a reporter that a railway carriage full of people was found 1 mile from the tracks.

zone136 · Dec 29, 2004

Michael Roxborough owned beach front property over there. Does anyone anything about whether he was there?

-Slim- · Dec 29, 2004

you have to realize that these people live in spaces SO overcrowded that their houses are one right after another and they build them within meters of a body of water, they have no choice, they're very poor so they have to live under those circumstances...

add to that a huge wave with unbelieveable strength and you got a mess.....

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