Hibster. Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 Thousands killed in Sri Lanka, India etc here Supercheese R250 Caterham pictures here 😬 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mav Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 Crikey that's terrible ☹️ Viv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Myles Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 Bit of a b*gger Project Scope-Creep is underway... Alcester Racing 7's Equipe - 🙆🏻™ Alcester-Racing-Sevens.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Birtwisle Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 Really really bad news but not really a surprise though. I just hope the emergancy services can cope with the aftermath. I was Bandung for a couple of months in 2000 and ten people were killed in an eathquake while I was there. We are very comfy up here in the Uk and can easily forget how destructive (in human terms) and how dynamic this planet can be.] Annoying that they in the news keep calling it a tidal wave too - no more tidal than my bathwater. Alex S713UMY 1.8K Viper Blue and Spandex Edited by - abirtwisle on 26 Dec 2004 16:37:43 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric McLoughlin Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 These waves were allways called "Tidal Waves" until a few years ago when the word "Tsunami" began to come into common useage. Is Tsunami Polynesian or Japanese? I wouldn't be surprised if it translates into "Tidal Wave". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
se7enmad Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 tsunami is japanese, meaning wave of the port Antonella 1998 Caterham Classic my site heremore photos here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Birtwisle Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 Tis a strange coincidence that this earthquake should happen when it did. Over Christmas dinner yesterday evening the conversation with my parents drifted onto family history (one of their great passions of many many years). They were telling me of some local parish records dating from 1815 and 1816 that document odd climatic effects such as frost in june and the like. They asked me if I knew of any events that would and could have caused such things. Obviously they were refering to the Tambora eruption (again in Indonesia) in which the best part of 90 000 people were killed in April 1815. Converstaion then dirfted to Krakatau (an eruption that took the life of one of my relatives in 1883) and other large catastrophic events that had happend in recent years. Strange to wake up to todays top news headline. Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisb Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 Terrible News - We went to the Maldives for our Honeymoon and just got back last monday. Scary ❗ ❗ ❗ Edited - due to drunken rubbish written before! Edited by - chrisb on 29 Dec 2004 09:09:25 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil.cavanagh Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 [sad git geographer mode] Eric, to those in the know they have always been Tsunami. Tidal waves are things like the Seven Bore (not to be confused with a member of the South Wales area meet...), which are cause by high tides and shaping of the coast funneling water, and so creating a large fast moving wave up the river. Tsunamis are huge waves caused by mass movements (ie landslides, earthquakes) rather than tides funneling water. [/sat git mode] Hope that clears it up! *thumbup* 😬 😬 😬 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossybee Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 Now over 10,000 people killed ☹️ Ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssscottish SsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssuperSssssssssssssssssnot!!! here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric McLoughlin Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 I've no problem with using the word Tsunami as it does differetiate the phenomenon from a true "tidal wave". It's just that the word didn't come into common useage until fairly recently. As a matter of intereest, in the 1968 movie "Krakatoa - East of Java" was the word tsunami used even once? And I note that Krakatoa is nowalways spelled as Krakatau. I can't keep up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Elizabeth Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 And Krakatoa is to the WEST of Java as well (saw it on a flight from Jogya to Jakarta). Very sad news and really shocking, as have stood on the beach in Madras where the video clips were from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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