Asian Earthquake
 

Whats the media coverage been like around the world on this, here the papers pretty much ignored it with the excuse that noone wanted any more bad news... Curious to see if this is just british media ignorance or if it happened anywhere else too?

I have to disagree.
British media has been (and still is) giving this plenty of time on TV, and pages in newspapers.

it is now, but seemed to take over 24 hours for them to realise the manitude of it

almost a week now...
response has been fast and furious, for the most part, relief, however, has been slow, mainly due to impassable roads...
nature, can't do anything about it...no one to put the blame for...

my girlfriend heard on the radio that they were planning not to mention it too much on the day it happened a as they thought it would get people even more down. Has anyone noticed that mother nature seems to be treating us bad atm...punishment maybe for years of us mistreating the earth?

Quote, originally posted by Nath »my girlfriend heard on the radio that they were planning not to mention it too much on the day it happened a as they thought it would get people even more down. Has anyone noticed that mother nature seems to be treating us bad atm...punishment maybe for years of us mistreating the earth?
yea i think nature is treating us harshly also. it hasnt stopped raining in my town since sunday. i mean like nonstop rain and its now thursday.

never realised that was out of the ordinary...
west wales and the scottish borders have had flooding

Pah...Thats nothing, I grew up in Shetland, the most northern island in Britain. It rains for months there...the only time it stops raining is so the snow can start, it's really windy up there too, down on mainland Britain they complain about 90mph gusts and the whole place stops at the first inch of snow. Every year we got snow and I think the deepest snow covering was about 9 ft and the highest drift was about 15 metres...we regularly got 190mph gusts of wind and it never gets reported...oh well supose it is just a small island :P
Oh yeah 2003 we had really bad landslides and flooding, a whole valley was turned into a flood plain and the beach next to my old school was literally washed away along with many houses
(look up shetland and it's changeable weather if u dnt believe me, it's well known for it)
Heres some pics of the landslides and flooding in 2003...my uncle (who still lives in shetland) says it's still not cleared up properly and by what environmentalists are saying the beach will take thousands of years for the beach to come back...I'll try an find a pic.
http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/2319/untitled21xx.jpg
thats just one of 20 odd landslides up and down the south end of Shetland.


Modified by Rachachelle at 4:05 PM 10/13/2005

Quote, originally posted by yanksrule26 »
yea i think nature is treating us harshly also. it hasnt stopped raining in my town since sunday. i mean like nonstop rain and its now thursday.
not just you man, its the entire north east. It has pretty much been raining here non stop all week. In fact it still is, really windy too. But its nothing compared to that Rachachelle.
The rain is pretty much a culmination of the dry summer we had

Well...
Volcanos Along the western Americas are erupting
Monster earthquakes are hitting Asia
Hurricanes along the Gulf of Mexico
Mud Slides and nearly triple the annual rainfall immediately followed a six month dry spell (not a drop of rain) here in SoCal, and three years of drought.
Yeah, I think something is happening. There is already religious reasoning being uttered (Second Coming), but I think the Earth is just going through a phase... from the sounds of it a lot of similar events occured during the late 1800s. This will probably be going on for a few years, then we'll all be back to our droughts and peace.

Quote, originally posted by Andre »Well...
Volcanos Along the western Americas are erupting
Monster earthquakes are hitting Asia
Hurricanes along the Gulf of Mexico
Mud Slides and nearly triple the annual rainfall immediately followed a six month dry spell (not a drop of rain) here in SoCal, and three years of drought.
Yeah, I think something is happening. There is already religious reasoning being uttered (Second Coming), but I think the Earth is just going through a phase... from the sounds of it a lot of similar events occured during the late 1800s. This will probably be going on for a few years, then we'll all be back to our droughts and peace.
Yeah, last year was a bit odd on the west side. There was talk of snow where it never snowed before or at least a very long time.
But one thing is for sure, we are getting more water. Northern icecaps are melting in a very fast rate. The icecaps that were beetween Russia and the Americas are almost completely gone when it almost look like you can walk across in the 1970's. This causes the earth to cool off and causes some wierd crap.

Talk About 2005 being the Disaster Year. First you get the hurricanes then the bombings in Bali. Now an Earthquake !!!

Do you guys honnestly think that there is more wierd stuff going on? Or is it just more and more people in traditionally suseptible areas and much better news reporting.

If mother nature was really telling us something, a bushfire, flood, hurricane, tornado, crack of earths crust or something alike would have started in every ford and gm production line in the world or in every garage with a 7 liter V8 sitting in it.
Really though, things happen.

You look at the news reports, and this has all happened years and years aand years ago, but none of it ever lines up like this... one after the next after the next. I actually think that there can be a chain reaction of events. I mean, the 9.0 Quake caused the Earth to wobble on its axis, that can change weather patterns immensly for a long time, and will likely affect fault lines worldwide, because we were, and still might be "ringing like a bell" for a while after the big quake. You can go further to say that last years odd weather patterns on the west coast (which are a 20 year cycle) affected the surface temperature around Mt St. Helens, which caused that to erupt. the flurry of earthquake activity then reverberated worldwide and triggered the 9.0, which I stated the results of above
Doomsday description, I'm sure it's just a disasterous coincidence. I'm merely illustrating that I think it is possible they are related.

Quote, originally posted by yanksrule26 »
yea i think nature is treating us harshly also. it hasnt stopped raining in my town since sunday. i mean like nonstop rain and its now thursday.
whart's wrong with rain? You should try and be more grateful, without water we would all be in great difficulty

Hmmm yeah rain's good but not when it floods whole cities and kills hundreds of ppl.

Quote, originally posted by empty2005 »Talk About 2005 being the Disaster Year. First you get the hurricanes then the bombings in Bali. Now an Earthquake !!!
...and 2004 ended with an Earthquake/Tsunami...
...what a way to start a New year....

Quote, originally posted by omar »
whart's wrong with rain? You should try and be more grateful, without water we would all be in great difficulty
after 8 days of nonstop major downpour and a flooded basement, rain sucks.

one of the majot causes of floods tend to be the large number of impermable surfaces - which are still increasing - (which we created) in the many urban areas (which we created). so in most cases, floods are our fault really
Water's good for us all!!!
(BTW, this isn't a personal attack.)