The Indian Ocean Earthquake reportedly was so powerful that it increased the speed of the earth's rotation. From now on, our day/night cycle will be 3 microseconds shorter.
Islands near the epicenter are reported to have shifted their position by as much as 96 feet.
Major websites, such as google, yahoo, amazon and apple, are adding relief links to their front page.
Please donate even if it's a single dollar. Due to the difference between your economy and theirs, one dollar is enough to keep a person fed for a day.
Google's tsunami relief page:
http://www.google.com/tsunami_relief.html
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Eggy Lippmann
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12-29-2004 06:52
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12-29-2004 06:56
Thanks Eggy - BTW the death toll is up to 67,000 - I cannot even imagine the grief.
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Eggy Lippmann
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12-29-2004 07:09
Reuters is reporting that the official death count is now at 77,828 and could reach 100,000, and there are as many as 5 million people needing urgent help.
The death count could be much higher: if they cant bury all the corpses in time, epidemics could spread across the entire region. http://reuters.com _____________________
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Eggy Lippmann
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12-29-2004 07:13
Wikipedia has excellent coverage of everything related to this earthquake and tsunami catastrophe, as well as a comprehensive list of charities that are accepting donations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donations_for_victims_of_the_2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake I also found a webpage with videos, not that you havent seen this all over the news, but: http://video.contemporaryinsanity.org/ _____________________
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Maggie Miller
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12-29-2004 10:08
I'd like to vouch for Doctors Without Borders, or the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) as it's known internationally. They've been around forever and do good work, and from what I can hear, the medical issues following the disaster are going to be almost insurmountable.
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12-29-2004 10:20
Thank you EggMan for these links!
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Relief Agencies
12-29-2004 10:39
I posted a list of relief agencies in this thread:
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Derek Jones
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12-29-2004 22:38
The island of Borneo shifted 100 feet to the north!!! That is absolutely astonishing to think that an island like Borneo can be moved a third the length of a football field in such a short amount of time! Mind blowing!
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Devlin Gallant
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12-30-2004 02:07
Yeah, and a think I threw a disk pushing the damn thing. I HATE earthquake duty.
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12-30-2004 07:25
I am simply blown away after reading this thread in it's entirety.
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Eggy Lippmann
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12-30-2004 07:26
According to reuters, the death toll has risen above 120,000... and there's still some 40,000 people missing.
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