Natuurramp in Azië door aardbeving/vloedgolven!!

Het verbaast me dat hier nog geen topic over is. Het is gisteren gebeurt, maar hier even de laatste stand van zaken.

Dodental zeebeving Azië stijgt tot 17.000

Het dodental van de zeebeving in de Indische Oceaan bij Sumatra en de vloedgolven is opgelopen tot zeker 17.000. De meeste slachtoffers vielen in Sri Lanka, Indonesië en India.

Aantallen per land
In Sri Lanka zijn 5880 doden geteld. Op Atjeh, op Noord-Sumatra, 4490. In India 6290 en in Thailand 460. Ook in Maleisië, Birma, de Maldiven, in Bangladesh, Somalië en Kenia vielen doden.


Tsunami
De beving had een kracht van negen op de schaal van Richter. Het epicentrum lag ten westen van Sumatra. Doordat de beving onder zee plaatsvond, ontstonden er vloedgolven (Tsunamis).

Dakloos
Miljoenen mensen zijn dakloos geworden. Op sommige plaatsen drong het water kilometers het land binnen. In Atjeh vernielden de vloedgolven alles wat ze tegen kwamen tot tien kilometer landinwaarts.


bron: www.rtlnieuws.nl

Asia quake death toll tops 15,000

CHENNAI, India (CNN) -- As dawn broke Monday across the Bay of Bengal, countries struck by tsunamis in the wake of the most powerful earthquake the planet has seen in 40 years focused on relief and rescue efforts, and said the death toll from the giant waves -- already more than 15,000 -- is expected to rise further.

The tsunamis also left thousands injured, thousands missing and hundreds of thousands homeless in Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

A Sri Lankan forecaster warned of a "remote possibility of small tidal waves" caused by aftershocks Monday.

Some of the tsunamis reached as far as 1,600 kilometers (91,000 miles) from the epicenter of the 9.0 magnitude quake, which was located about 160 kilometers (100 miles) off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra Island at a depth of about 10 kilometers (6.2 miles).

The quake struck about 7 a.m. Sunday (midnight GMT Saturday), according to the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Center.

It is the fourth-largest earthquake since such measurements began in 1899, according to the NEIC, tying with a 1952 quake in Kamchatka, Russia.

More than 4,500 people have been reported dead in Sri Lanka. Most of them, authorities said, were in the eastern district of Batticaloa. Thousands were missing and more than a half million displaced.

In southern Sri Lanka, 200 prisoners escaped when the waves swept away a high-security prison in Matara.

Witnesses in the eastern Sri Lankan port city Trincomalee reported 14 meter (40-foot) waves hitting inland as far as a kilometer (0.6 miles).

The Sri Lankan government declared a state of emergency, and, along with the government of the Maldives, has requested international assistance, the United Nations' Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported.

The United Nations has warned of epidemics within days unless health systems in the affected areas can cope.

"This may be the worst natural disaster in recent history because it is affecting so many heavily populated coastal areas ... so many vulnerable communities," the U.N.'s Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland told CNN. (Full story)

As the sun rose, 20,000 Sri Lankan soldiers and naval personnel launched relief and rescue efforts. India sent six warships, carrying supplies, along with helicopters.

Priorities including identifying the hardest-hit areas and air-dropping supplies, along with shepherding stranded people to safer areas.

Sri Lankan authorities imposed a curfew overnight, and many residents remained concerned about the possibility of additional tsunamis.

The country has been in the throes of a civil war, and land mines uprooted by the waves were hampering relief efforts.

Some tourists, meanwhile, had been evacuated from the hard-hit eastern coasts to the capital, Colombo, on the west coast and unaffected.

At first light, many Sri Lankans ventured out to scour the debris for belongings or to search for information on missing family members.

Although India was giving aid to Sri Lanka, that country also was reeling from the aftermath of the quake and tsunamis. India's official government news agency, Press Trust of India, said at least 6,000 Indians were killed, and more bodies were being recovered.

A resident of Chennai (formerly Madras) in Tamil Nadu district -- India's hardest-hit area -- said he saw several people being swept out to sea.

Along India's southeastern coast, several villages appeared to have been swept away, and thousands of fishermen -- including 2,000 from the Chennai area alone -- who were at sea when the waves thundered ashore have not returned. (Full story)

Along the coast, brick foundations were all that remained of village homes. In Tamil Nadu state, 1,725 people have been confirmed dead, and officials feared many more died on the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands, where dozens of aftershocks were centered, but communication with the mainland was cut off.

CNN correspondent Ram Ramgopal said authorities had confirmed 2,000 deaths on those islands.

Efforts to provide survivors with food and shelter were hampered by the overwhelming magnitude of the damage.

Thai authorities said more than 400 people are dead, and hundreds are missing in Phuket.

The area provides 40 percent of Thailand's $10 billion annual income from tourism.

Among the missing were scuba divers who had been exploring the Emerald Cave off Phuket's coast.

Phuket's airport -- which closed when its runways flooded -- reopened, but most roads in the area remained closed, as officials tried to assess the damage.

Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra arrived in Phuket and declared the situation "under control." He told CNN he planned to direct rescue and relief efforts overnight.

Witnesses reported guests drowned in their hotel rooms near the coast as 10 meter (30-foot) waves washed ashore.

Others reported narrow escapes -- including a Spaniard who had been aboard a boat when the wave approached.

The captain began screaming and turned the boat directly into a nearby shore, where he beached it.

As those aboard jumped from the craft and scrambled up the steep beach, they turned back to see the waves crush their boat, the Spaniard said.

Communication difficulties
More than 500 people have been confirmed dead in Indonesia -- many of them in Aceh, in northern Sumatra, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) from the quake's epicenter, according to local reports.

The quake also inflicted heavy damage on the area, which is a hotbed of rebel activity, before two tsunamis slammed the coastline.

Access and communications were difficult if not impossible; the death toll remained a mystery on the west coast of Aceh, where communications had been completely wiped out. News agencies in the country have reported more than 4,000 dead.

The tsunamis struck with no warning to those in coastal areas, as no warning system exists for the Indian Ocean, said Eddie Bernard, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Marine and Environmental Labs in Seattle.

Staffers at warning centers that cover the Pacific Basin and the U.S. West Coast were aware of the quake and the possibility of tsunamis, said Laura Kong, director of the International Tsunami Information Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.

"They were able to make contact, but they did not have the proper government officials to notify," she said. "They'll be working on this in the future."

The earthquake is classified as "great" -- the strongest classification given by the NEIC.

NEIC geophysicist Don Blakeman said the tsunamis were triggered by the initial massive jolt.

"The damage is just phenomenal," said Jan Egelund, U.N. emergency relief coordinator. "I think we are seeing now one of the worst natural disasters ever."

Aftershocks
There was disagreement over whether the threat was over. Waverly Person, Blakeman's colleague at NEIC, said the tsunamis are "long over" and residents and visitors should not worry about further tsunamis.

Bernard, however, said the aftershocks are strong enough to produce more tsunamis.

One such aftershock, measuring 7.3 in magnitude, struck about 300 kilometers (200 miles) northwest of Banda Aceh -- on Sumatra's northernmost tip -- more than four hours after the initial quake, according to the NEIC.

The center expects the quake to produce hundreds of smaller aftershocks, under 4.6 magnitude, and thousands smaller than that.

"A quake of this size has some pretty serious effects," Person said.

The quake represented the energy released from "a very large rupture in the earth's crust" more than 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) long. The rupture created shock waves that pushed the water at speeds of up to several hundred kilometers per hour.

It was the strongest earthquake to hit anywhere on Earth since March 1964, when a 9.2 quake struck near Alaska's Prince William Sound.

The strongest recorded earthquake (and records go back to 1899) registered 9.5 on May 22, 1960, in Chile.

Sunday's quake hit a year after the 6.6-magnitude quake in Bam, Iran, which killed more than 30,000 people, injured another 30,000 and destroyed 85 percent of the buildings in the southeastern Iran city.

bron: www.cnn.com

Ik heb beelden op tv gezien en het is echt verschrikkelijk. Je ziet allemaal dode baby's en kinderen enzo liggen. Dit is echt te erg.

 

verschrikkelijk zoveel doden en dat zal de komende dagen nog wel oplopen. Maar wat kun je hier tegen doen, Nix een muur van water van 8 a 9 meter hoog kun je echt niet tegen rennen. Dit is nou de kracht van Moeder natuur..

 

Idd, het schijnt dat er golven zijn geweest van zelfs 14 meter!!!!

 

Tja, ik heb het ook op de radio gehoord en OMFG, elk half uur als ik het nieuws hoorde was het eerst 800(noem maar wat), 1000, 1500 enz... en dan noemen ze nog maar 1 land van de zoveel...

 

De aardkloot van de laatste paar jaren lijkt wel een beetje op het beeld van de Film The day after tomorrow, blijven doorgaan zo mensen, blijven doorgaan

:-(

 

Idd dat lijkt er aardig op.

 

Ik denk dat mensen 0,0% invloed hebben op aarbevingen hoor.

 

Nee, ik bedoel dat het op The Day After Tomorrow lijkt.

 

beetje overdreven vind ik, er zijn altijd natuurrampen geweest dus en veel kun je er niet tegen doen. Wel verschrikkelijk hoor voor de mensen in Azie die het overkomen zijn dat wel natuurlijk.

 

Echt erg, vooral dat de meeste slachtoffers kinderen en babytjes zijn, die konden zich niet vasthouden of veiligstellen door zich bijv ergens aan vast te houden of op dak te gaan staan.
Die beelden van die golf zijn echt eng, als je bedenkt dat dat ieder moment hier ook kan gebeuren, half nederland ligt onder zeespiegel en flevoland is zou dan meteen ondergestroomt zijn, hopelijk gebeurt zoiets niet dagelijks!

En ff= Mensen geen invloed op de natuur?, waarom denk je dat er de laatste 100 jaar 30maal zoveel tornado's zijn?, aarbevingen zijn met 20 keer verdubbeld de laatste 100 jaar en ze zijn ten opzichte van vroeger nog sterker geworden ook!, het klimaat heeft wel degelijk invloed op de bodem waardoor aardbevingen ontstaan!, en al hebben wij mischien geen invloed op de bodem zelf, wat ik eigenlijk ook al betwijfel, wij hebben wel degelijk invloed op het klimaat, die weer invloed heeft op de bodem waardoor aardbevingen ontstaan, je gaat mij niet vertellen dat het aantal aardbevingen "oppeens" zo erg is gestegen door dat de plateaus meer zijn gaan bewegen dan vroeger, ik denk dat je jezelf eerder voor de gek houdt!

 

Uhm het is niet de schuld van de mens dat de aardplaten tegen elkaar opbotsen hoor...

 

is zo.
maar een heleboel andere ramen hebben we degelijk met de vervuiling van de mens op aarde te maken.
al die overstromingn een tijdje geleden komt voor een groot deel opdat de poolkappen smelten en de zeespiegel stijgt

 

Volgens CNN inmiddels 20.000 doden.

 

damn!
gioster waren het er 4000 had ik gehoord

 

Het dodental is alweer opgelopen tot zeker 23 500!!!

Dit is echt niet normaal meer, het loopt zo snel op....shit man

 

Verdorie nog aan toe
9.0 op de schaal van richter
als die op het land was geweest.............
dan had er echt niets meer recht gestaan op dat eiland
De op 4 na grootste aardbeving .
Phoe daar sta je wel ff bij stil
En dan 17 000 slachtoffers en nog steeds stijgende.
verschrikkelijk

 

De golven hebben zelfs de kust van Afrika bereikt , waardoor daar ook slachtoffers zijn gevallen.

 

aardbevingen hebben echt niks met de invloed van de mens te maken. het worden er zelfs steeds minder. Vroeger was de aarde een grote aardbeving en vulkaan. in de verre toekomst zullen er waarschijnlijk helemaal geen aardbevingen meer zijn, Aardbevingen onstaan doordat platen die op magma drijven tegen elkaar aan botsen maar omdat de aarde steeds verder afkoelt van binnen neemt de activiteit van vulkanen en aardbevingen ook verder af.

 

Jezus zeg! Het aantal stijgt zowat om de 10 min, dit is niet normaal meer.

 

ja idd dat komt denk ik omdat ze nu ook contact krijgen met eilandjes die getroffen zijn en waar lange tijd geen verbindingen mee waren.