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     holycow
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| | Friday, December 31, 2004 - 02:13 pm: |  
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The SEA-EAT blog - a blog manned by world wide volunteers. For those who want to help and for those who need help, check out this site. There are many useful links that you may find useful.
An animated video showing the spread of the tsunami... a serious worry and concern is Burma, so far the military regime over there has been SILENT on the impact and damage of tsunami on its coastal areas!?
DigitalGlobe - here you can see some highly detailed satellite pictures of the damage done by the tsunami... while you are there, check out the "Anniversary Gallery" where you can find two high def pics - Sydney Opera House and the Ayers Rock. Highly detailed and worth a look.
ps: the address of the the SEA EAT blog is http: \"tsunamihelp" dot "blogspod" dot "com" (the word blogspod SHOULD BE SPELT and end with the word "SPOT" and not "SPOD") or follow this Google link: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=tsunamihelp&btnG=Search
HC
"... if you've got a chart, I have an opinion!"
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holycow
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| | Saturday, January 01, 2005 - 12:47 pm: |
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What the World has Pledged... follow this: link:169345%2C00.gif,http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,169345,00.gif
- the latest: USA has pledged 350 million US$ this morning.
HC
"... if you've got a chart, I have an opinion!"
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holycow
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| | Sunday, January 02, 2005 - 02:18 pm: |
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Warnings rebuffed
THE possibility of tsunamis arising in the Indian Ocean had not completely escaped international attention. During the 1990s, an obscure UN group, the International Coordination Group for the Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific, periodically considered the extension of tsunami alert systems to parts of the globe outside the Pacific, including the Caribbean and Indian Ocean.
At a meeting of the group in Peru in September 1997, its members had considered proposals to expand the network to the Indian Ocean, particularly because of Indonesia's tectonic activity. Nothing concrete happened.
Among the scientists who kept up a restrained but insistent pressure was Dr Phil Cummins, a seismologist with Australia's geosciences agency.
He continued to gather and present evidence that an Indian Ocean tsunami was inevitable, although unpredictable in terms of timing. He met with no ill will, but with considerable inertia, he said.
He made his case in October 2003, at a meeting of the international tsunami group in Wellington, New Zealand, when he pushed for formal expansion of the international network into the Indian Ocean.
The group rebuffed him, saying, in the stiff language of meeting minutes, that any such expansion could occur only if an overarching governing body dealing in global oceanographic issues formally redefined its 'terms of reference'.
In the meantime, it voted to establish 'a sessional working group to prepare a recommendation to establish an intersessional working group that will study the establishment of a regional warning system for the South-west Pacific and Indian Ocean'.
Dr Cummins prepared a position paper at that meeting laying out his arguments. He simulated the quake: simulated waves radiated until they struck as far north as eastern India and all around western Australia. The Sumatran shore east of the fault was devastated and a directional pulse of energy, resulting in higher waves, splayed westward like a shotgun blast.
At the time, the images of those reconstructed virtual waves must have seemed like yet another computer analysis, predicting yet another potential disaster. Now, the reconstructions, so similar to what happened last Sunday, carry a disturbing weight.
-- THE NEW YORK TIMES
Potent force
THE energy that is unleashed in a 9.0 earthquake, as this one in the Indian Ocean, is roughly the amount that would be generated if it were possible to set off a bomb made from 32 billion tonnes of TNT. Transferred piston-like into the incompressible water above, it made for the giant waves that swept into the coasts of Asia and Africa.
HC
"... if you've got a chart, I have an opinion!"
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holycow
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| | Sunday, January 02, 2005 - 02:43 pm: |
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Phuketitcity.com
- an informative site containing information from hospital, rescue centres and any other possible source... The site has names of the missing and dead in order of the countries where they came from. The database covers the Thai provinces of Phangnga, Phuket, Krabi and Trang that were all hit by the tsunami.
The site also has a search function, where people can type in the name of an individual to find out the status of the person. Mug shots of unidentified bodies recovered are also on the site to enable the next of kin to identify them.
(please feel free to pass this link on to others... at last count there are still around a thousand Aussies who are missing in Thailand, their friends or relatives may find this site useful to them)
HC
"... if you've got a chart, I have an opinion!"
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holycow
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| | Sunday, January 02, 2005 - 07:31 pm: |
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PeopleMatch
- AN INTERNET FACE RECOGNITION SERVICE OFFERS HOPE TO DESPERATE FAMILIES OF TSUNAMI VICTIMS
The PeopleMatch system has the ability to place up to 1,700 unique characteristics for an individual face in its database. It will then match these points with similar points from an uploaded facial photo. Upon verification, the system will call up a set of photos that matches the victim. A team of RC Group's and Ftec's volunteers are currently operating in the main hospitals and emergency centers in Phuket, Thailand, to take photos of victims of the ordeal.
ps: the service is provided free by the site
HC
"... if you've got a chart, I have an opinion!"
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holycow
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| | Sunday, January 02, 2005 - 07:34 pm: |
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CSIPHUKET
- the Official Thai Tsunami Information Center in eight languages. You may be timed out due to heavy traffic. Be patient.
HC
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holycow
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| | Sunday, January 02, 2005 - 07:38 pm: |
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Chatbar
- this site provides free SMS messages to anyone who needs to communicate with loved ones in the affected areas.
HC
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ann
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| | Sunday, January 02, 2005 - 08:23 pm: |
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HC,
You have provided some marvellous information here. You really are a valuable contributor to this forum. Well done.
Cheers
Ann
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holycow
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| | Friday, January 07, 2005 - 04:53 pm: |
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The cruel sea... Banda Acheh before(right) and after the Tsunami - photo compiled from BBC archive.
HC
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ingot54
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Registered: 05-2004Rating: N/A
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| | Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 11:25 pm: |
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News item today about crikey.com.au being sold, so thought I'd have a look - hadn't heard of it. In the "whistleblower"link, this story appears.
http://www.crikey.com.au/whistleblower/2005/01/17-0001.html
I think everyone who reads this story will feel the same, so no need to comment.
When the "WHY" is big enough, the "HOW" takes care of itself
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