8.2 earthquake just hit Indonesian fault line where tsunami quake occured.

[Last Conformist]

If there's no tsunami, probably not very many, but someone mentioned 50 dead on an island off Sumatra.

[Boris Godunov]

Indonesian police officials have said "hundreds" are dead in collapsed buildings.

[Elok]

Well, I'll prepare for the next disaster...as this has happened immediately after a Christian holiday for the second time, there is a very real chance that Pat Robertson and/or Jerry Falwell will blame this on the wrath of God against terrorists, Muslims, Hindus, homosexuals, Muslim-Hindu homosexual terrorists, etc. I would like to preemptively respond to their comment, should it be made, with disgust and a proposal to have them both shipped off to Tora Bora. Make a note of it.

And it's good that it doesn't look like there will be another tsunami.

[Elok]

Oh, and I agree, there's a line between "slightly morbid" and "sociopathic lack of concern for human well-being" which Dfg is inching towards, if not already over.

EDIT: By insane coincidence, when I posted this, I got the following Bertolt Brecht quote as a while-you-wait: "He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news."

[Kidlicious]

Maybe it's because he's a Dr., and his gives a **** meter is already on full capacity.

[Docfeelgood]

Originally posted by Elok
Oh, and I agree, there's a line between "slightly morbid" and "sociopathic lack of concern for human well-being" which Dfg is inching towards, if not already over.

EDIT: By insane coincidence, when I posted this, I got the following Bertolt Brecht quote as a while-you-wait: "He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news."

Im trying to make a point.


I think sum of you got it.

[chequita guevara]

DFG was being ironc.

[Solver]

There are deaths, though. Fifty people dead on the island of Nias, quake magnitude raised to 8.7.

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/03/28/indonesia.quake/index.html

[Sava]

this is strange... the first earthquake/tsunami happened on Dec 26th, then this one happens a day after easter...

baby jesus hates brown people?

[Kidlicious]

No. He wants them in Heaven.

[Kidlicious]

The death toll is going to be in the hundreds.

[FrostyBoy]

I'm residing in Singapore at the moment and lastnight I felt a very long and dragging sway. It lasted about 2 minutes. I'm from New Zealand so I can identify earthquakes quite easily, seems a lot of Singaporeans didn't notice it.

I stood up and tried to feel the movement, just to make sure it wasn't just me being dizzy.

So this morning, I find out that there really was an earthquake at the same time I felt one. Now that I have felt the earthquake, I am going to be much more precautious, I don't want to be near beaches when one happens again.

[St Leo]

Aside from the Christian holidays, the two incidents followed the Winter Solstice and the Vernal Equinox.

[Ned]

Originally posted by Sn00py
I'm residing in Singapore at the moment and lastnight I felt a very long and dragging sway. It lasted about 2 minutes. I'm from New Zealand so I can identify earthquakes quite easily, seems a lot of Singaporeans didn't notice it.

I stood up and tried to feel the movement, just to make sure it wasn't just me being dizzy.

So this morning, I find out that there really was an earthquake at the same time I felt one. Now that I have felt the earthquake, I am going to be much more precautious, I don't want to be near beaches when one happens again.

I live about a mile from the epicenter of the massive '89 quake. I moved here just after the quake, though. But for years we had significant aftershocks that were quite impressive. We still get quakes, but usually they are a long way off.

As well, I was in SoCal during the big quake of '72. Now for me, that was scary. It went on for about 1 minute, during which time the entire house was shaking violently and loudly.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Kidicious
The death toll is going to be in the hundreds.

At least 2,000, according to an Indonesian official.