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Originally posted by baco99:
Originally posted by acrdklr:
the waves don't become huge until they reach land so the boats out to sea would be ok.
exactly. as the wave reaches shallow water, the energy in the wave is concentrated more and more. beyond the continental shelf, the effects of the wave are hardly felt.
You are still going to feel a 30ft swell, and on the Weather Channel the wave was reported to be moving at 400-500 mph  . Trust me, you will feel that one.
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The way a Tsunami works it is moving very fast (400-500 mph) in deeper waters. Its speed is directly related to the depth of the water. As the water becomes more shallow, the speed slows down. By the time most hit land, they are only moving around 45 mph (speed of a rapid tide).
Additionally, the wave at sea is not a 30 foot swell. In fact, they are usually barely felt since it is typically only a little more than a 1 meter swell. This is why early detection can be difficult.
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This is for Hitman...
Czech supermodel Petra Nemcova, who appeared on the cover of 2003 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, was injured and her photographer boyfriend is missing.
Pic of her.
The tidal wave really only effected all those poor ppl in those 3rd world countries. 
The tsunami quake wobbled Earth's axis also!
An earthquake that unleashed deadly tidal waves on Asia was so powerful it made the Earth wobble on its axis and permanently altered the regional map, US geophysicists said today.
The 9.0-magnitude temblor that struck 250 km south-east of Sumatra island on Sunday may have moved small islands as much as 20 metres, according to one expert.
"That earthquake has changed the map," US Geological Survey expert Ken Hudnut told AFP.
"Based on seismic modelling, some of the smaller islands off the south-west coast of Sumatra may have moved to the south-west by about 20 metres. That is a lot of slip."
The north-western tip of the Indonesian island of Sumatra may also have shifted to the south-west by around 36 metres, Hudnut said.
In addition, the energy released as the two sides of the undersea fault slipped against each other made the Earth wobble on its axis, Hudnut said.
"We can detect very slight motions of the Earth and I would expect that the Earth wobbled in its orbit when the earthquake occurred due to the massive amount of energy exerted and the sudden shift in mass," Hudnut said.
Another USGS research geophysicist agreed that the Earth would have got a "little jog", and that the islands off Sumatra would have been moved by the quake.
However, Stuart Sipkin, of the USGS National Earthquake Information Centre in Golden Colorado, said it was more likely that the islands off Sumatra had risen higher out of the sea than they had moved laterally.
"In this case, the Indian plate dived below the Burma plate, causing uplift, so most of the motion to the islands would have been vertical, not horizontal."
The tsunamis unleashed by the fourth-biggest earthquake in a century have left more than 23,000 people dead in eight countries across Asia and as far as Somalia in East Africa.
The tsunamis wiped out entire coastal villages and pulled beach-goers out to sea.
The International Red Cross estimated that up to one million people have been displaced by the natural disaster.
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More updates on the Tsunami. Thousands of bodies were found in Indonesia, raising the death toll to closer to 44,000
Here is a death toll breakdown by country:
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2004/12/28/breakdown_of_disaster_deaths_by_country/
A few miracles are creeping out of Southest Asia too.
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Amid the devastation, however, were some miraculous stories of survival. In Malaysia, a 20-day-old baby was found alive on a floating mattress. She and her family were later reunited.
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A Hong Kong couple vacationing in Thailand clung to a mattress for six hours.
Also, there is a new danger being reported as well.
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A new danger emerged Tuesday: the floods uprooted land mines in Sri Lanka -- a nation torn by a decades-old war with Tamil separatists in the north. The mines now threatened aid workers and survivors, UNICEF said.
Finally, the US is quickly increasing its aid package as details of the disaster continue to reach us.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2004/12/28/us_adds_20_million_to_quake_aid_donation/
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Originally posted by Matt R:
Originally posted by baco99:
Originally posted by acrdklr:
the waves don't become huge until they reach land so the boats out to sea would be ok.
exactly. as the wave reaches shallow water, the energy in the wave is concentrated more and more. beyond the continental shelf, the effects of the wave are hardly felt.
You are still going to feel a 30ft swell, and on the Weather Channel the wave was reported to be moving at 400-500 mph . Trust me, you will feel that one.
It's not 30' until it gets close to land. It was probably no more than a couple feet high out in the ocean, maybe just a few inches high.
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Originally posted by HITMANinMI:
Well in some of those third World dumps over there you are better off being dead than alive so to many I'm sure death was welcome. Still tragic that so many people died.
I have to say im grossly outraged twords this comment hitman. It doesnt matter where people live, everybody deserves a fighting chance, I respect people from 3rd world countries, they dont have the luxeries that we do, their lives are so much harder, and they have more crap to deal with then we do, daily. The fact that they keep fighting to survive makes them great people in my book.
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Originally posted by ALIAS Jerk:
Originally posted by HITMANinMI:
Well in some of those third World dumps over there you are better off being dead than alive so to many I'm sure death was welcome. Still tragic that so many people died.
I have to say im grossly outraged twords this comment hitman. It doesnt matter where people live, everybody deserves a fighting chance, I respect people from 3rd world countries, they dont have the luxeries that we do, their lives are so much harder, and they have more crap to deal with then we do, daily. The fact that they keep fighting to survive makes them great people in my book.
Wow...just, wow... 
It speaks how severe this comment by Hitman was when our resident runner-up is outraged by it. 
Purely disgusting. Pure, outrageous hatred. I've no doubt you will pay for this. 
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ok so we all agree that hitman was wrong with his comment, let's stop beating that dead horse.
Hitman is just one person compared to the thousands that are being affected by this tragedy, which is what this topic is about.
It's sad that so many topics need to be hijacked and altered to constantly discuss hitmans b/s actions.
He's on a temporary CEG vacation. Let's leave him out of our thoughts while things are nice and quiet.
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Originally posted by todras:
Czech supermodel Petra Nemcova, who appeared on the cover of 2003 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, was injured and her photographer boyfriend is missing.
Jet Li and his daughter were also (minorly) injured.
http://sify.com/movies/hollywood/fullstory.php?id=13638063
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Originally posted by Pre98:
Wouldn't submarines be caught up in a rather huge undertoe so to speak (massive current)?
I'm still curious 
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