Death Toll 22,500!!!

[st0rm3rs]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SP228208.htm

Just stop a second and think how many people that actually is.

 

[LazyLion]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SP228208.htm

Just stop a second and think how many people that actually is.

um, 500 short of 23,000?

 

[Ady]

This is scary, they were at around 15 000 this morning.

 

[Moederloos]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SP228208.htm

Just stop a second and think how many people that actually is.

Around the number murdered in SA in one year.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Isn't SA's murder rate nearly double that?

 

[Pixie22]

SA murder rate is around 26k a year off the top of my head!?

16k gun deaths.

USA is around 11k gun deaths which is also considered extremely high. although you can buy enough gunas ammo to arm a swat team over there at wallmart. Hardly surprising. Their population is also 10 x that of ours, so yeah, 11k is pretty tiny.

 

[st0rm3rs]

That's in a year, not in a couple of days.

 

[Pixie22]

That's in a year, not in a couple of days.

somebody asked. If you are going to talk about a day, then India had Earthquakes that killed hundreds of thousands didn't it?

 

[st0rm3rs]

I know, that's hectic.

 

[Fudzy]

Quite a strange coincidence that the 2004 tsunami killed almost exactly 10 times that many people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake

 

[Fudzy]

Around the number murdered in SA in one year.

Where you get that stat from?

 

[Crabby]

I had to unfortunately lol at "In Yangon, people lined up for bottled water and there was still no electricity four days after the cyclone hit."

WTF were they expecting after 4 days ?? When we got hit by Ivan in 04 we had no electricity for 3 months.

4 days pffffft

 

[Ecco]

Thank goodness SA is relatively safe from many natural disasters.

 

[Datura]

Thank goodness SA is relatively safe from many natural disasters.

And we have become quite accustomed to life without electricity.

 

[Devill]

The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea (subduction) earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC December 26, 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The earthquake triggered a series of devastating tsunamis along the coasts of most landmasses bordering the Indian Ocean, killing more than 225,000 people in eleven countries, and inundating coastal communities with waves up to 30 meters (100 feet). It was one of the deadliest natural disasters in history. Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand were hardest hit.

 

[st0rm3rs]

I don't know how accurate this is...
http://www.armageddononline.org/worst_natural_disasters.php

Those Indians and Chinese have got it bad.

 

[Albereth]

A number that big is difficult to comprehend in terms of human life. And it is somewhere else too.

And from some accounts it is going to get worse. The government there is not at all keen on allowing aid workers in.