Tsunami Relief
Like so many others around the world, we at Google are following the devastation caused by the earthquake and tsunami that has hit many parts of Asia and east Africa. Below are a few sites already set up to provide information and handle donations for victims throughout the region. Our thoughts are with everyone who has been affected.
Tsunami Relief
30-Dec-2004 by
Earth is spinning faster as a result of quake
29-Dec-2004 by
Mark Frauenfelder:
The massive undersea earthquake that caused the tsunami gave a boost to our planet’s spin. As a result, days will be a fraction of a second shorter from now on.
Richard Gross, a geophysicist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, theorized that a shift of mass toward the Earth’s center during the quake on Sunday caused the planet to spin 3 microseconds, or 3 millionths of a second, faster and to tilt about an inch on its axis.
Link
…excerpt from: www.boingboing.net…
Post-Tsunami Reconnect project
29-Dec-2004 by
Xeni Jardin:
Author and wireless geek Mike Outmesguine announces a disaster relief project aimed at bringing connectivity to tsunami victims cut off from communications services by the disaster.
I am working to organize a disaster relief effort to help those affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami. I’d like to send wireless equipment and expertise to damaged areas to help reconnect the people. I’m still working out the details and will update you as more develops. It will be organized with folks from the Southern California Wireless Users Group, SOCALWUG and other wireless groups that wish to participate. I started calling it the Post-Tsunami Reconnect.
Xeni Jardin mentioned the effort today on Fox News Channel during an interview about bloggers and the tsunami. I will have a video excerpt available soon. Here is a statement I sent to the Center for International Disaster Information about the effort:
“We are a Southern California based user community of experts and advocates of wireless data communications. Wireless community members supplied technical expertise and wireless equipment for the Florida hurricane relief efforts and to military personnel stationed in Iraq. We would like to organize, collect, and deliver wireless data equipment to disaster relief workers and others in the affected region to help maintain a high level of communication and internet access ability. We would also be able to send engineers into the area to help bring connections online.”
For more information or to discuss a donation of funds, equipment, or your expertise, contact Mike Outmesguine by email “mo at wifi-toys.com…” or voice:
+1-818-889-9445 ext. 102
Tsunami blogs launched for help services, missing persons inquiries
29-Dec-2004 by
Xeni Jardin:
The group responsible for tsunamihelp.blogspot.com… have launched two new collaborative blogs: tsunami enquiry, with numbers for emergency help services in affected areas, and tsunami missing persons, which aims to assist people in connecting with loved ones.
…excerpt from: www.boingboing.net…
In Sri Lanka, animals seem to have survived
29-Dec-2004 by
Xeni Jardin:
Strangely, amid massive loss of human life, there seems to be little or no dead wild animals in Sri Lanka. Snip:
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.
Link
…excerpt from: www.boingboing.net…
NYT, Fox News, others on blogs and tsunami disaster
29-Dec-2004 by
Xeni Jardin:
John Schwartz wrote an insightful piece for the New York Times this week about the role blogs play in covering and responding to the tsunami disaster. I was interviewed for the piece, but the people who really have something interesting and valuable to say are the ones over there, on the ground — and the folks rolling up their geek sleeves to assist.
From relaying first-person accounts (like Sanjay/Morquendi’s SMS reports in Sri Lanka), to kick-starting relief efforts (tsunamihelp.blogspot.com…, and the Post-Tsunami Reconnect project), to questioning media coverage (Ethan Zuckerman’s post about Myanmar), there’s a lot going on here The amateur-shot image shown here ran in the NYT story. Snip:
“At sumankumar.com…, Nanda Kishore, a contributor, offered photos and commentary from Chennai, India: ‘Some drenched till their hips, some till their chest, some all over and some of them were so drenched that they had already stopped breathing. Men and women, old and young, all were running for lives. It was a horrible site to see. The relief workers could not attend to all the dead and all the alive. The dead
…excerpt from: www.boingboing.net…
Kevin Sites blogging from Thailand
29-Dec-2004 by
Xeni Jardin:
Blogger and NBC combat correspondent Kevin Sites was in Southeast Asia on a break from reporting duties when the tsunami disaster took place. He’s now in Thailand, reporting — and back on the blog again, dispatching photos and first-person accounts. Snip:
One-hundred and fifty-nine pine coffins have been stacked in the garage — many of them big enough to hold refrigerators — built to accommodate the now bloated and rapidly decomposing bodies inside.
Thai soldiers, wearing surgical masks, race against time to arrest the process — before the bodies become impossible to identify.
In a well-choreographed drill — they use hammers to smash square blocks of dry ice, carrying the shards on sheets of plastic and dumping them inside the coffins with the remains. They work at a very high tempo — almost as if they were trying to rescue the living — rather than preserve the dead.
On the sides of the coffins are photographs of the deceased as they were found, special attention paid to jewelry or tattoos, anything that can help in identifying who they once were.
The pictures are grisly — bruised, blackened, bodies misshapen from the ferocious force of an angry ocean and all that travels with it. Old, young, small, large, South Africans, Australians, Canadians, English, Thais �- all victims of the earth’s unrest on a day when she seemed to have precious little mercy.
…excerpt from: www.boingboing.net…
Amateur video footage of tsunami on blogs, torrents
29-Dec-2004 by
Xeni Jardin:
Waxy.org… has been collecting amateur video footage, here’s a roundup post: Link. Punditguy has more: Link
Chris Holland says,
I’ve used prodigem to create torrents for the South Asia tsunami videos. The more people use this torrent, the faster everyone else will be able to download the videos. See also this page to make it easy for people to put an amazon donation badge on their sites.
…excerpt from: www.boingboing.net…
More on bloggers and tsunami aid efforts
29-Dec-2004 by
Xeni Jardin:
The total number of dead is now believed to be more than 80,000, and rising. In some places, one in every four citizens have lost their lives. Many of the areas hit were extremely poor to begin with, and some 1/3 of the dead are children. Following up on previous BoingBoing posts about fundraising and relief efforts kick-started in the blogosphere:
Scott Hanselman proposes that Google allow bloggers that use AdSense to donate ad proceeds to tsunami relief. Link (Thanks, Peter Provost).
Andy Carvin at Digital Divide Network says, “In response to this week’s devastating tsunami in the Indian Ocean, the Digital Divide Network has created an online community workspace on disaster relief and emergency preparedness: Link. The virtual community can be used for posting online resources, documents, news, and articles about tsunami relief efforts. Users also may take advantage of the site’s Web bulletin board and post their own blog entries.”
BoingBoing reader Andrew Falconer proposes that folks who’ve received holiday gift cards convert them into donations to a tsunami relief charity. “I’ve emailed Home Depot, Wal-Mart, Best Buy and Swapagift.com… regarding gift card donations directly to tsunami relief charities. Amazon.com… has already implement
…excerpt from: www.boingboing.net…
Tsunami Help Wiki
29-Dec-2004 by
Xeni Jardin:
Wikinews just launched a Tsunami Help page to collect links to relief effort resources including aid agencies, missing and found people, confirmed deaths, news updates, and helpline numbers. The emergency database was created by contributors to the SEA-EAT (Tsunami Help) blog. (Thanks, Rohit). Link to related BoingBoing posts.
…excerpt from: www.boingboing.net…
Amateur Tsunami Video Footage
29-Dec-2004 by
Waxy.org…: Daily Log: Amateur Tsunami Video Footage
In addition to the extensive first-person coverage of the tsunami disaster on blogs, there have been several amateur recordings of the tsunami from camcorders. Unfortunately, the network websites aren’t making them easy to find and view. The videos are usually only available as poor-quality, streaming video like RealPlayer, and buried in popup windows and poor navigation.
Ben pointed me to downloadable versions of three clips. I’m hosting them here. (Unfortunately, I don’t have much information about the source of these videos.)
* phuket.wmv (11MB) – shot from inside a restaurant, waves engulf older couple clinging to railing before flooding entire room
* patong_beach.wmv (10MB) – rooftop view of two huge waves battering buildings along shore, then flooding of city streets
* sri_lanka.wmv (7MB) – upper balcony view of hotel swimming pool area getting flooded as observers run away; woman asks “how high will it go?” before retreating
* koh_lanta_thailand.avi (11MB) – shot on beach level; watch as first wave grows and crashes, before cameraman’s frantic retreat away from shore
* penang_beach.wmv (1MB) – shot from wall above beach, three men are caught in battering waves
* sri_lanka_resort.wmv (6MB) – upper level hotel balcony; restaurant, pools, and deck flooded as people cling to trees; two men narrate what they see
Photos of before and after the tsunami
29-Dec-2004 by
DigitalGlobe | Sample Imagery
Kalutara, Sri Lanka
“After” Image Collected December 26, 2004
Image © 2004 DigitalGlobe
“Before” Image Collected January 1, 2004
Image © 2004 DigitalGlobe
Description:
This is a natural color, 60-centimeter (2-foot) high-resolution QuickBird satellite image featuring the southwestern coast of Sri Lanka. Imagery was collected at 10:20 a.m. local time, slightly less than four hours after the 6:28 a.m. (local Sri Lanka time) earthquake and shortly after the moment of tsunami impact.
Using a Wiki for documentation and collaborative authoring
28-Dec-2004 by
Michael Angeles has written an article on using wikis for documentation and collaborative authoring. To quote:
Documentation may help to ensure efficiency, continuity and consistency in library operations. Library technical staff might consider the use of collaborative publishing software for documenting their internal processes and procedures. Wiki software for collaborative web publishing has emerged as one of the viable and inexpensive options to consider for maintaining group documentation. There are many inexpensive or free Wiki packages at our disposal and while they may not necessarily bend to meet our every requirement, with a little work can serve many of our needs.
(This article is written from a librarian’s perspective, but is generally applicable to anyone looking for practical ways of collaboratively managing documentation.)
…excerpt from: www.steptwo.com…
Tsunami blog coverage: updates
28-Dec-2004 by
Xeni Jardin:
Rohit Gupta, Jon Lebkowsky, and Dina Mehta at the Worldchanging.com… blog have just published a roundup of first-person accounts, aid site urls, and news reports related to the tsunami disaster in Asia. They say this post will be updated regularly, so you can bookmark and return for fresh info as it comes.
Link. Joe Gandelman posts another comprehensive roundup here, on his “Moderate Voice” blog: Link.
Wikipedia is also maintaining coverage in a richly linked, well-organized web page with ongoing updates. Link. And Wikipedia Commons offers related media (photos, data animations, and the like): Link (Thanks, Nick Douglas)
Loic Le Meur tells BoingBoing, “A French blogger writes of having been alerted three hours before the tsunamis hit the coasts. An www.boingboing.net…
SMSes from Sri Lanka, and a call for help with live blog
28-Dec-2004 by
Xeni Jardin:
Earlier today, we posted a first-person account from tsunami eyewitness Sanjay (aka “Morquendi”). He’s a blogger and TV producer who lives and works in Sri Lanka, one of the areas hardest hit by the disaster. Throughout last night — as he participated in emergency rescue and relief efforts — Sanjay text-messaged live observations to his co-editors at the collaborative blog ChiensSansFronteres. Snip:
# I’m standing on the Galle road in Aluthgama and looking at 5 ton trawlers tossed onto the road. Scary shit.
# Found 5 of my friends, 2 dead. Of the 5, 4 are back in Colombo. The last one is stranded because of a broken bridge. Broken his leg. But he’s alive. Made…
# ..contact. He got swept away but swam ashore. Said he’s been burying people all day. Just dragging them off the beach and digging holes with his hands. Go..
#..ing with gear to get him tommorrow morning. He sounded disturbed. Guess grave digging does that to you.
ref=”http://www.writers.net/writers/rohitgupta”>Rohit Gupta)
UPDATE: Mumbai-based blogger Rohit Gupta from ChiensSansFronteres tells BoingBoing,
“We now have two bloggers on the gro
…excerpt from: www.boingboing.net…
Phuket Tsunami Photo Gallery by hellmut issels at pbase.com
28-Dec-2004 by
Powerful earthquake, tsunamis strike South Asia, leaving thousands dead, injured and missing
28-Dec-2004 by
Powerful earthquake, tsunamis strike South Asia, leaving thousands dead, injured and missing
Sunday, December 26, 2004 %u2014 The largest earthquake to strike the globe since 1964 has caused devastating tsunami waves that have killed thousands in south Asia. The 8.9-magnitude quake hit December 26 off the coast of Indonesia, triggering these extremely large waves that have brought massive flooding, damage and loss of life in the region.
Waves as high as 20 feet have crashed into the coastal areas near the Bay of Benegal. Among the worst affected countries are Sri Lanka and India, as well as Indonesia, Maldives and Thailand. Reports are that thousands of people are missing, and it is possible that the number of dead may tragically rise in the coming days.
International Red Cross and Red Crescent societies in south Asia have begun to mobilize staff and volunteers to affected areas to assist with the immediate needs. Emergency assessment and first-aid teams have already reached some of the affected areas.
The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami
28-Dec-2004 by
The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami
The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami
The SEA-EAT blog for short
News and information about resources, aid, donations and volunteer efforts.
Lemmings’ suicide myths started by Disney nature photogs
27-Dec-2004 by
Cory Doctorow:
Lemmings are widely considered to be suicidal beasts, throwing themselves en masse off cliffs. It turns out that this isn’t true, but rather a legend begun through some unethical trick photography executed by Disney nature photos in the fifties.
The myth of mass lemming suicide began when the Walt Disney movie, Wild Wilderness was released in 1958. It was filmed in Alberta, Canada, far from the sea and not a native home to lemmings. So the filmmakers imported lemmings, by buying them from Inuit children. The migration sequence was filmed by placing the lemmings on a spinning turntable that was covered with snow, and then shooting it from many different angles. The cliff-death-plunge sequence was done by herding the lemmings over a small cliff into a river. It’s easy to understand why the filmmakers did this – wild animals are notoriously uncooperative, and a migration-of-doom followed by a cliff-of-death sequence is far more dramatic to show than the lemmings’ self-implemented population-density management plan.
So lemmings do not commit mass suicide. Indeed, animals live to thrive and survive. Consider a company like Disney, where one rodent, namely Mickey Mouse, was Royalty. It’s rather odd to think that Disney could be so unkind to another rodent, the lemming..
The Disney Blog)
…excerpt from: www.boingboing.net…
Bloggers in SE Asia cover quake and tsunami disaster
27-Dec-2004 by
Xeni Jardin:
Image: Screencap of TV coverage in Bangkok, Buddhist monks chanting for the souls of those who died in the disaster. At present, the international death toll stands at nearly 24,000. Ron Morris in Thailand says, “Since the first tremor from the Sumatran quake was felt in Bangkok over 36 hours ago, we have been blogging the latest news about the disaster. Includes screen grabs from Thai TV and links to locals who took photos of the wreckage after the tidal waves.” Link
Cameron Sinclair of the nonprofit group Architecture For Humanity tells BoingBoing, “Two members of the WorldChanging.org… crew live close by the Tsumani disaster and are reporting on whats going on: Link. As for reconstruction issues, a page is being set up at Architecture for Humanity to cover this: Link.”
Here is a photoblog maintained by a man named Fred in Sri Lanka, with snapshots of the destruction in Jaffna, where he lives and works: Link. Here’s another Sri Lankan blog maintained by “Zeus”: Link. See also this livejournal maintained by a man named Ernest who was in Phuket when the
…excerpt from: www.boingboing.net…
Updates on Tsunami from bloggers in India and Sri Lanka
27-Dec-2004 by
Xeni Jardin:
Rohit Gupta writes:
The picture here is taken from the southernmost tip of India, where until today there were hundreds of tourists trapped at the Vivekananda Rock Memorial, off the coast of Kanyakumari district. In an amazing display of humanitarian collaboration and bravery, the local fishermen saved roughly 500 of the 600 trapped people, while the role of relief agencies was severely limited by the breakdown of communications and bad weather. Even as I write this, most local media can only offer conflicting figures. Link.
A majority of the deceased from the mainland were local fishermen who had gone out in the sea, to net their nightly catch. Throughout the day and night, and the following day, small boats and catamarans, perhaps too small to brave the violent sea, were plying up and down the strait that divides the island from the Indian mainland. While the Indian Air Force kept dropping food and medical supplies, it is the fishermen who’ve kept the Kanyakumari death toll (524) as low as it is. Most of the saved were not locals, but tourists, including a Supreme Court judge. There were no riots or cases of civic indiscipline reported in that district, nor in any other part of India, during the rescue efforts. Thankfully, the Indian media has taken due note of the effort. Also, Dr. Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister of India, has offered extensive aid to Sri Lanka, and at least four Indian Navy
…excerpt from: www.boingboing.net…
Arthur C. Clarke on tsunami
27-Dec-2004 by
Xeni Jardin:
On his website, author and inventor Sir Arthur C. Clarke — who lives in Sri Lanka — says:
Thank you for your concern about my safety in the wake of Sunday�s devastating tidal wave. I am enormously relieved that my family and household have escaped the ravages of the sea that suddenly invaded most parts of coastal Sri Lanka, leaving a trail of destruction.
But many others were not so fortunate. For hundreds of thousands of Sri Lankans and an unknown number of foreign tourists, the day after Christmas turned out to be a living nightmare reminiscent of The Day After Tomorrow.
Link to complete text of message (thanks, Brian), and link to Wikipedia entry on Sir Arthur Clarke.
…excerpt from: www.boingboing.net…
The Moderate Voice: MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE In Asia: Some Asian Blogs’ Accounts
27-Dec-2004 by
The Moderate Voice: MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE In Asia: Some Asian Blogs’ Accounts
2004 decided not to go quietly today when the biggest earthquake in 40 years struck deep in the Indian Ocean, triggering massive tsunamis — wiping out Asian coastal areas and instantly drowning and killing more than 27,000 people.
In a grim reminder that the well-laid plans of holiday goers, governments and politicians hinge on a higher power, the earthquake — an estimated 9 point magnitude — struck quickly and without mercy, decimating coastal areas some 1,000 miles away in a record-setting catastrophe. Far away, yet even with newspaper accounts the Internet made it seem MUCH closer…because some local weblogs instantaneously started telling bits of the horrific story:
A first hand account appears on Thailand’s Ernest’s Whirrled’s blog:
Pong and a friend of his, Joy and I are on Phuket Island. Our hotel was destroyed in the tidal wave. We were trapped on the 4th floor for several hours. Our hotel was RIGHT ON THE BEACH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is an email I sent to my family in California:
I was having breakfast on the front patio and saw the ocean recede which was weird then I saw a wave coming. I ran to our room screaming for Pong and Joy to get up ( They were sleeping) and go to the top floor. Water was already in our first floor room and we started climbing up the stairs. The guesthouse is only 5 stories tall. We stopped on the 4th floor and watched as the wave hit. I was scary as hell!
After about 2 hours and several other big waves coming in we walked about 5 blocks up a hill to a resort hotel. I kept telling the people there all around me that I was diabetic and lost my insulin in the waves. A police truck came by on the way to the hospital and gave us a ride to the hospital in land and up hill. I got there and the place was a mad house. But I went straight to the pharmacy and bought insulin. We then found a new hotel about 2 blocks from the hotel it is called Nipa Villa still in the town of Patong and on Phuket island. The airport is under water, there is a bridge connecting the island to the mainland in the north of the island but that has been destroyed. I don’t know how long we will be stuck here but we are OK. My friend Dino sent you an email earlier for me. I have phone contact with him and he will have any latest info.
And, later, this:
It is unreal what is going on here…I am in Patong Beach Phuket Thailand right now. …Check out the pics, this is what it looks like in the town I am in RIGHT NOW!!!
Yahoo! News – Science Photos – AFP
27-Dec-2004 by
Yahoo! News – Science Photos – AFP
Graphic explaining the Richter Scale measuring the force of earthquakes.(AFP)
BuzzMachine… by Jeff Jarvis
27-Dec-2004 by
BuzzMachine… by Jeff Jarvis
The tsunami
: The Independent has a helpful if horrifying country-by-country report on the impact of the earthquake and destruction. Here’s a map from The Age in Australia.
: The Age asks readers to send in their stories and this comes from an Australian near Phuket:
We came to Koh Tao on a two week holiday to relax in the sun……
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I was standing on the beach about 30 meters from the shoreline at a dive shop when I heard raised voices and looked around. The deck chairs that were lining the beach were floating toward me. It was a bit confusing at first as nobody had any idea what was going on. There was no loud noise or wind, just all of a sudden the sea had risen a good 10 meters.
Then the wave sucked out away from the shore a few hundred meters, exposing the coral reef that I had dived on a few days earlier. That’s when people really realised something was terribly wrong. All of a sudden all the dive instructors and staff of the nearby restaraunt ran down the beach to see if anyone was pulled out, only to find themselves faced with a surging ocean at least 15 meters high. At this point I was standing on a small cement wall at the top of the beach and watched as they scrambled up the beach and up the steep hillside on the edge of the bay.
When the second wave came in it simply tore apart the wooden buildings that sat at the top of the beach, the water came up to my knees and very neally took me off the wall. When the second wave sucked out, everyone who could bolted for the slopes on the sides of the bay.
The third and probably largest wave came surging forward and simply ripped apart the cement buildings like they were made of balsa wood. I saw a friend of mine scramble onto a roof about 5 meters from me as the water reached its peak – only to hear a loud crack and see the roof lurch badly. I couldn’t believe my eyes when the entire roof – with my friend on top, floated to the side and was sucked out into the bay and out of sight.
It just seemed so impossible, 10 minutes earlier we had been sitting down on the beach drinking a coffee, and now the entire beach had been ripped apart and my friend and all the buildings were simply gone.
The waves continued for a good hour after, gradually getting smaller only to reveal the complete devastation left behind. There was complete confusion as people were running around trying to find each other – or simply sitting in the wreckage with vacant looks on their faces. Later I found out that my friend had been rescued by boat with a mild concussion and lacerations from all the wreckage in the water and is at this moment in Phuket hospital….
Read the rest of the post at the link at the top of this post.
Yahoo! News – Tsunami Waves Kill Over 19,930 in Asia
27-Dec-2004 by
Yahoo! News – Tsunami Waves Kill Over 19,930 in Asia
10 minutes ago
World – AP Asia
By DILIP GANGULY, Associated Press Writer
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Rescuers scoured Asia’s coastlines for survivors of devastating tidal waves that obliterated seaside towns in nine countries, killing more than 19,930 people. Aid poured into the region, but morgues and hospitals struggled to cope with the tragedy.
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
27-Dec-2004 by
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Current event This article or section is about a current event. Information may change rapidly.
The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea earthquake of moment magnitude 9.0 that struck the Indian Ocean off the western coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia on December 26, 2004 at 00:58:50 UTC (or 07:58:50 local time in Jakarta and Bangkok). It was the largest earthquake in the world since the 9.2-magnitude Good Friday Earthquake which struck Alaska, USA, in 1964, and the fourth largest since 1900. Thousands were killed by the resulting tsunamis, which were as high as 10 m (approx. 33 ft) in some locations and struck within three hours of the quake.
The multiple tsunamis struck and ravaged coastal regions all over the Indian Ocean, devastating regions including the resort island of Phuket, Thailand, the Indonesian province of Aceh, the eastern coast of Sri Lanka, coastal areas of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, and even as far away as Somalia, 4,100 km west of the epicenter.
Swept Away
27-Dec-2004 by
Plastic::SciTech::Disaster: More than 10,000 are dead due to tsunamis caused by an undersea quake off Sumatra.
…excerpt from: www.plastic.com…
TSUNAMI UPDATE: Jeff Jarvis has more links and reports, some rather harrowing, and points to this c…
27-Dec-2004 by
TSUNAMI UPDATE: Jeff Jarvis has more links and reports, some rather harrowing, and points to this country by country roundup from The Independent. And scroll down, or click here for links to posts from bloggers in the region
Joe Gandelman has another roundup of asian bloggers’ resports.
Tim Blair has more, too, and so does Jay Manifold, including links to aid agencies that are accepting donations.
…excerpt from: instapundit.com…
Tragedy in south Asia : A horrendous earthquake and tsunami:The world’s biggest earthquake in 40 yea…
26-Dec-2004 by
Tragedy in south Asia : A horrendous earthquake and tsunami:The world’s biggest earthquake in 40 years hit south Asia Sunday,…
…excerpt from: www.buzzmachine.com…