"On Sunday ,26.12.04, a powerful earthquake, measuring 8.9 on the Richter Sacle, rocked Indonesia and neighbouring countries in Asia, such as Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Thailand, India and Maldive islands. Its epicentre was located at 2.9 north latitude and 95.6 east longitude at a depth of 20 km, some 149 km away from Aceh's South Meulaboh coast."
"The 9.0 magnitude earthquake - the strongest to have happened in the past 40 years, - hit Aceh and North Sumatra in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Maldive islands and Myanmar, leaving more than 10,000 people dead and thousands of others missing."
"The most devestating earthquake in recorded history hit China's Shaanxi province in 1556 killing 830,000 people."
"The confirmed death toll from the massive earthquake and tidal waves that devastated much of Asia's coastline passed 25,000, with officials warning the figure was likely to rise steeply."
Death toll
Sri Lanka: 11,960 India: 7,523
Indonesia: 4,725
Thailand: 990
Myanmar: 56
Maldives: 52
Malaysia: 60
Bangladesh: 2
Somalia 100
Total: 25,468
"More than one million people have been displaced in the disaster, the International Red Cross said, as hopes faded for many thousands more still missing and fears grew that disease could unleash more tragedy."
"Horrific scenes of destruction met emergency teams as bodies piled up by the hour in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives and Myanmar, while international aid agencies rushed food and clothing to hundreds of thousands left homeless."
"There are thousands of dead people, and there are tens of thousands of dead animals. The people should be buried and the animals should be destroyed and disposed of before they infect the drinking water. It's a massive operation."
"Just before the first wave struck, "there was no water left in the ocean. The fish were just flapping and dying on the beach," Danish tourist Svend Falk-Roenne, 52, told AFP in Bangkok on his way home from Phuket."
"Melina Heppell, a six-month-old baby girl from Australia, was swept from her father's arms on Patong Beach, Phuket, when a tsunami wave hit, her uncle Simon Illingworth said on Australian television."
Above were some of the lines from news online... I really duno what else to said but to feel so sorry for those who had die in this terrible disaster... I really do hope that I can be part of the team to go over and help... Never had I wanted to be part of the saving teams of all the past disaster even for the 911 incident... This is the first time that I will not put any photos or pictures ever since I had been posting pictures together with my post... I really feel so upset by the whole incident... I duno what more I can say... Wonder if you all also feel the same... I really wish that I can be of some help... Haiz...
~let us just pray to GOD that this kind of disaster will not happen again...~
