Hundreds die in Indonesian quake
 

Just seen this in the news :(

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/5022558.stm

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I heard it on the news earlier and they said only 5 died?!

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Initially authorities can only guess and hope to God (or Allah) that they have over estimated. They usually haven't! Its only after everything has settled down can people started counting the dead. That can takes weeks for earthquakes.

If you can cast your mind back to the Boxing Day 2004 Tsunamis. Initially it was only a couple of hundred, it took quite some time (weeks) for the final (??) figure of more than 230K to surface.

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it's awful, not having much luck there are they, I keep watching on sky news for updates

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Bloody awful - poor people. More die if the tremors are overnight as more people are in their beds. Quakes that happen during the day usually mean many less dead.
This is very sad - they're in a very unfortunate part of the world. :(

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Figure is going up all the time

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/5022558.stm

Just heard a figure of well over 2000 on BBC news.

G

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:( OMG :( :(

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Poor bastards. Why is it that the people who tend to be lowest on the socio-economic ladder, are also the ones who get the most stick from natural disasters? :confused: :(

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Just heard that 2500 people are estimated as dying :(

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yeah thats just what ive heard :( it just seems one huge tragic event after another in the past few years !! very scary and sad!!

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Yes...remember that awful mudslide in Honduras when an estimated 100,000 died - that was soon superceded by 9/11 in the news ....followed by more natural disasters - earthquakes and the tsunami.

Like you say...scary, but also like Vash said...sad that these natural disaster hit those people who live in poor parts of the world.

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always!!! i'm not religious, but my husband always quotes a piece from the bible!! i cant quote it cos he isnt here but basicly it predicts what will happen to the world!

just a thought, but where have kay and col gone???

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One of our supporters moved to Indonesia about 2 years ago to be a English Teacher..... He lives in Bogor Indonesia.... and is chatting about the situation on the Palace BBS rite now and claims there are over 3,000 dead

http://forums.cpfc.org/showthread.php?threadid=133007

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Kay as in Possums ??

Don't know now...damn - there is a post about it not that long ago

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Does it say that people in poor parts of the world have worse infrastructure, building methods etc perhaps?