Biggest earthquake in 40 years hits Southeast Asia

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by GePap
The King needs a replacement palace

Just abandon the capital city. It's not like there's much pop anyway, after the quake.

[Joseph]

Originally posted by Azazel
The only problem could be the drilling equipment, that would be attached to the bottom of the ocean in some way. But even then, the tide is like a meter high or something in mid ocean, it's like a relatively large wave or something.

* Azazel crosses his fingers for all the people, and esp. germanos' relatives.

In 1964, my ship, the USS Navarro APA-215 was returning to Long Beach when the Alaska Earthquake hit. We were some 200 to 300 miles north of Hawaii and the wave was noted in our log at around 1:00 AM and it was only 3.5 high. We were told that when it hit Hawaii it was over 20 feet high.

[BlackCat]

Guess that you mean 3.5 feet - 3.5 meters would have been noticed :-)

It's a little redicoulous to talk about tsunami detection - you cannot detect a tsunami, but you can predict such one if there are earthquakes in sea areas. Even landside earthquakes can make tsunamis if subsea areas are affected.

[Shi Huangdi]

This thread really is pathetic. I can see some of these European posters must have been jumping for joy as they heard about the escalating death toll, as it gives them another reason to troll. That people would turn a thread about such a vast catastrophe into a US bashing thread is pathetic.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
This thread really is pathetic. I can see some of these European posters must have been jumping for joy as they heard about the escalating death toll, as it gives them another reason to troll. That people would turn a thread about such a vast catastrophe into a US bashing thread is pathetic.

Why do you consider trolls to be only European?

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
This thread really is pathetic. I can see some of these European posters must have been jumping for joy as they heard about the escalating death toll, as it gives them another reason to troll. That people would turn a thread about such a vast catastrophe into a US bashing thread is pathetic.

Some maybe, but not alll. Actually, isn't there a single democreature from US that now and then has abused this opportunity ?

Still, make your own thread if you want to bash eourpeans

[Shi Huangdi]

Originally posted by Spiffor

Why do you consider trolls to be only European?

fair enough, trolls in general

[laurentius]

The only trolls in this thread are VJ, Alva and some Americans, you for example Shi Huangdi who were trolled back by people including myself.

[Joseph]

Originally posted by GePap
And Boris PWNZ DanS.

Anyways, how long till we reach 100,000 dead?

Sometime tomorrow 30 Dec.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Spiffor

Why do you consider trolls to be only European?

yes, some of them are Australian

[Joseph]

Originally posted by BlackCat
Guess that you mean 3.5 feet - 3.5 meters would have been noticed :-)

It's a little redicoulous to talk about tsunami detection - you cannot detect a tsunami, but you can predict such one if there are earthquakes in sea areas. Even landside earthquakes can make tsunamis if subsea areas are affected.

Correct.

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
This thread really is pathetic. I can see some of these European posters must have been jumping for joy as they heard about the escalating death toll, as it gives them another reason to troll. That people would turn a thread about such a vast catastrophe into a US bashing thread is pathetic.

Its not a troll at all.

The problem pointed to is defined by the OECD as lack of policy coherence. This is where one government policy undermines or works against another.

One example would be spending 177 million a day on the war in Iraq whilst offering only 10 million in aid to tidal wave survivors. Sumatra is a hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism, perhaps the Afghanistan of tommorrow.

Another would be Europe spending 9 times as much on agricultural subsidies as they spend on aid to developing countries whilst closing their markets to developing country agricultural exports.

If you look at either case, its madness from an economic policy point of view.

Nor, btw, is it in tune with conservative free market economic policy.

[Whoha]

Ok recap:

There is some stuff they can do to detect impending doom:

http://www.magazine.noaa.gov/stories/mag153.htm

The US contributions have been generous and will go up. People are focusing on the number that the US government is giving, and not the total aide that will be rendered,especially considering our airlift capacity,the freedom of the seas provided by our navy which is going to allow everyone else that sends aide to actually send it,and the stuff on hand in the warships we are diverting to the Region which can provide fresh water from their desalinisation plants for example.

[Urban Ranger]

All right people, stop flaming or your backside will be toast.

@ Canada and everybody who chipped in.

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Ming




America gives out more in total dollars in Aid each year then any other country in the world... a pretty stupid troll on your part

...and we rank DEAD LAST when it comes to humanitarian aid as a percentage of GDP.