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Tsunami Kills Thousands But Where Are The Dead Animals? 19 y
Reuters: Where are all the dead animals? Sri Lanka asks
Sri Lankan wildlife officials are stunned -- the worst tsunami in memory has killed around 22,000 people along the Indian Ocean island's coast, but they can't find any dead animals.
Giant waves washed floodwaters up to 3 km (2 miles) inland at Yala National Park in the ravaged southeast, Sri Lanka’s biggest wildlife reserve and home to hundreds of wild elephants and several leopards.
”The strange thing is we haven’t recorded any dead animals,” H.D. Ratnayake, deputy director of the national Wildlife Department, told Reuters on Wednesday.
”No elephants are dead, not even a dead hare or rabbit,” he added. ”I think animals can sense disaster. They have a sixth sense. They know when things are happening.” visit the page Animals sensed tsunami? 19 y
Wild animals are said to possess a sixth sense for disasters
by Aljazeera Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004 at 8:45 AM
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4D417570-F713-4786-9472-F764303EC556.htm
Wild animals seem to have escaped the Indian Ocean tsunami, adding weight to
notions they possess a sixth sense for disasters, experts said.
Sri Lankan wildlife officials on Thursday said the giant waves that killed
thousands of people along the Indian Ocean island’s coast seemingly missed wild
beasts, with no dead animals found.
”No elephants are dead, not even a dead hare or rabbit. I think animals can
sense dis ... read more Did Animals Escape Tsunami? 19 y
There have long been studies demonstrating that animals can sense major natural disasters long before human beings. Cows are said to sit en masse prior to earthquakes. Birds seek shelter in sunny skies as hurricanes bear down.
There have long been studies demonstrating that animals can sense major natural disasters long before human beings. Cows are said to sit en masse prior to earthquakes. Birds seek shelter in sunny skies as hurricanes bear down.
But now there is a weird situation in Sri Lanka, where local emergency folks can’t seem to find any dead animals while finding many dead human beings.
Sri Lankan wildlife officials are stunned -- the worst tsunami in memory has killed around 22,000 people along the Indian Ocean island’s coast, but they can’t find any dead animals. [snip]
”No elephants are dead ... read more Elephants saved tourists from tsunami 19 y
KHAO LAK: Agitated elephants felt the tsunami coming, and their sensitivity saved about a dozen foreign tourists from the fate of thousands killed by the giant waves.
Elephants saved tourists from tsunami
03 January 2005
”I was surprised because the elephants had never cried before,” mahout Dang Salangam said on Sunday on Khao Lak beach of the eight-elephant business offering rides to tourists.
The elephants started trumpeting - in a way Dang, 36, and his wife Kulada, 24, said could only be described as crying - at first light, about the time an earthquake measured at a magnitude of 9.0 cracked open the sea bed off Indonesia’s Sumatra island.
The elephants soon calmed down. But they started wailing again about an hour later and this time the ... read more Secret mass grave for tourists 19 y
A Correspondent discovers a burial site for 10,000 bodies near a Buddhist temple in Thailand
Secret mass grave for tourists
By Daniel McGrory
Our correspondent discovers a burial site for 10,000
bodies near a Buddhist temple in Thailand
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,18690-1425903_1,00.html
Bodies of children and adults
share a grave in Thailand. They were buried with no ceremony (PETER
NICHOLLS)
THE bodies of British and other Western tourists are
being secretly buried in vast mass graves in an ... read more Eyewitness account from Phangnga (dated January 1, 2005) 19 y
Basically - we were left alone by the authorities and the world for three days. Arriving rescue teams were held up in Phuket to clean up there while in Phangnga we had nothing. Not enough people, no equipment, no organisation whatsoever. Thousands of dead tourists, thousands of dead locals, thousands of dead Burmese illegal workers.
Eyewitness account from Phangnga (dated January 1, 2005)
Via an email: I have just returned after spending nearly 4 days in Phangnga province. There are only a few things I am able to say right here now:
The death toll is beyond belief, we estimate somewhere around between 10,000 and 20,000 dead at least, but honestly, it is nearly impossible to put any number to it... Basically, very few seriously injured people, mostly lightly injured, the rest is dead.
The important thing though, for people who are looking for relatives or friends:
I am very sorry, unbelievably sorry, but ... read more Indonesia: Tsunami deaths soar past 212,000 19 y
The Indonesian Health Ministry says the December 26 earthquake and tsunamis killed 166,320 people in Indonesia, double the previous official figure.
The latest figures out of Indonesia now put the regional death toll for the Indian Ocean disaster at 212,611.
Indonesia: Tsunami deaths soar past 212,000
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Indonesia is reporting a staggering new death toll from the tsunami disaster as recovery efforts slowly resolve the fates of tens of thousands of missing people.
The Indonesian Health Ministry says the December 26 earthquake and tsunamis killed 166,320 people in Indonesia, double the previous official figure.
The latest figures out of Indonesia now put the regional death toll for the Indian Ocean disaster at 212,611.
The new death numbers reflected the latest reports from the province ... read more Tsunami baby ruling sparks chaos ("Baby 81.") 19 y
Nine women claimed baby as their own. A court ruling that a couple must undergo a DNA test to prove they are the parents of the tsunami survivor sparked chaos in a hospital pediatric ward Wednesday after a surging crowd and the would-be parents burst in and pleaded with doctors to release the infant, known as "Baby 81."
Tsunami baby ruling sparks chaos
Nine women claimed baby as their own
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/02/02/tsunami.baby.ap/index.html
Wednesday, February 2, 2005 Posted: 9:45 AM EST
(1445 GMT)
Jenita Jeyarajah picks the child
up and holds him while hospital officials try to calm the crowd.
KALMUNAI, Sri Lanka (AP) -- A court ruling that a
couple must undergo a DNA test to prove they are the parents of the tsunami ... read more Nine saved 38 days after tsunami 19 y
Nine people who survived the December 26 earthquake and tsunami in southern Asia have been rescued on a remote island off the coast of India, officials in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands said.
Nine saved 38 days after tsunami
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/02/02/tsunami.india/index.html
Wednesday, February 2, 2005 Posted: 3:02 PM EST
(2002 GMT)
NEW DELHI, India --
The five men, two women and two children were found in a forest on Great
Nicobar on Wednesday, according to a police source. The survivors were hungry,
weak and emaciated, the source said.
They lived by eating wild boar and coconuts, the police source said, and none
appears to have any serious health problems.
The inspector leading the search party called the rescue ”a miracl ... read more Natural Tsunami Warning Signals 19 y
Approaching tsunamis are almost always heralded by noticeable fall of
coastal waters.
Water may recede several hundreds of meters. If you are on the beach, and
you see water suddenly receding, exposing the ocean floor, it means that you have got minutes before the tsunami strikes.
Natural Tsunami Warning Signals
that may save your life
No1 warning signal: Earthquake (from 10 minutes to 2 hours before the strike)
Residents in areas susceptible to tsunamis should be made aware of the need
to seek high ground if they feel strong ground shaking.
If you are in the low costal area and you feel an Earthquake, do not
wait for authorities to tell you that you need to evacuate, instead seek the
high ground yourself, take a camera and watch what is going on around you. Tsunami may arrive 10
minutes, or 2 hours after the earthqua ... read more The Indian Ocean Tsunami 19 y
85 percent of all tsunamis occur in the Pacific Ocean, generated in the regions where the main tectonic plates forming the floor of the Pacific collide against themselves or against the continental plates that surround the ocean basin, in an area known as the Ring of Fire.
On Sunday 26 December 2004 at 8:14 p.m. EST, within minutes following an alarm signaling a strong earthquake in the Indian Ocean, NOAA’s Tsunami Warning Centers in Hawaii and Alaska issued information bulletins to all ICG/ITSU member states and other Pacific nations indicating that a magnitude 8.0 earthquake (later upgraded to M9.0 by the U. S. Geological Survey) had occurred off the west coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia. According to the agreed-upon procedures for the International Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific, this event did not pose a threat to the Pacific. The PTWC ( ... read more Girl's sea warning saved a hundred 19 y
A GIRL aged ten saved a hundred fellow tourists from the tsunami
because of a geography lesson about the giant waves. Tilly Smith urged
her family to get off Maikhao beach in Thailand after seeing the tide
rush out and boats on the horizon begin to bob violently.
From the Times of London (online) 1 January 2005
Girl’s sea warning saved a hundred
A GIRL aged ten saved a hundred fellow tourists from the tsunami
because of a geography lesson about the giant waves. Tilly Smith urged
her family to get off Maikhao beach in Thailand after seeing the tide
rush out and boats on the horizon begin to bob violently.
The youngster, recalling a recent school project on quakes, turned to
her mother Penny and said: ”Mummy, we must get off the beach now. I
think there is going to be a tsunami.” Penny and her husband Colin
alerted others and they clea ... read more |