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Topic author: Roberto Mahlab
Replied on: 27/12/2004 11:57:52
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Michelle Tan, nostra lettrice dalla Malesia, ci invia questo ritaglio per farci conoscere la situazione nel suo paese:
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Monday December 27, 2004
At least 53 Malaysians killed by tidal waves
KUALA LUMPUR: At least 53 people were killed, scores injured and 34 reported missing in several parts of Malaysia when tidal waves of up to five metres high hit the coastal regions as a result an earthquake in Sumatra.
Officials have described it as the worst natural disaster in Malaysia’s history.
Penang was the worst hit, with 38 reported dead and 30 missing at press time.

Picture taken by Paul S. Russell, shows a tidal wave approaching the Batu Ferringhi coast at about 1.15pm.
In Kedah, 12 more were reported dead and three missing, in Perak two dead and one missing and Selangor one dead.
A Malaysian husband and wife were also reported killed while diving in the Emerald Cave off Thailand’s southern coast after a huge tsunami struck.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said he felt sad about the lives that were lost in the disaster and extended his condolences to the bereaved families.
He has asked Second Finance Minister Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop to give financial help to the victims.
According to the Meteorological Services Department Seismology division, preliminary information showed the location of the earthquake's epicentre at Latitude 3.1° North and Longitude 95.5° East, some 680km from Kuala Lumpur and 590km from Penang.
The first of the tidal waves, which hit the coastal areas at different times, was reported at about noon, about three hours after the tremors were felt in Malaysia.
However, a Penang Meteorological Services spokesman said the waves could have hit Penang shores earlier, before 11am.
Waves reaching 3m was reported at Batu Maung and between 2.4m and 3m at Batu Ferringhi.
The spokesman said the waves could have gone above 4.6m, particularly at enclosed bay areas.
Unconfirmed reports from the public said the waves at Langkawi had hit as high as 8m.
The seawaters swept more than 150m inland, drowning boatmen, holidaymakers and other people in its path.
Boats were capsized or tossed up onto the roads, and houses and other property destroyed.
Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, who is also the National Disaster Relief and Management committee chairman, has ordered the evacuation of residents in the coastal areas of Penang and Kedah due to concern that tidal waves might recur.
Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting has directed Fire and Rescue Department officers to go all out to help in the rescue work and to be ready if the waves were to hit again.
Earlier, between 9am and 9.30am, tremors lasting about one and two minutes were reported in all states except Malacca, Johor and Pahang.
The tremors sent occupants of many high-rise buildings scurrying out in fear, while in other premises the people were told to leave.
There was no report of any injury.

Topic author: Roberto Mahlab
Replied on: 27/12/2004 12:01:55
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La nostra lettrice Michelle Tan dalla Malesia ci invia le notizie che vengono pubblicate su quanto accade in Tailandia:
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Monday, December 27, 2004
Families, friends reunite after tsunami hits Phuket
PHUKET, Thailand (AP) - A large billboard of Thailand's king, split into pieces, lay in a heap Monday, facing the destruction on this beach in the aftermath of the earthquake-induced tidal wave that turned the area's bar-lined beach into a pile of broken sticks.
Families and friends, separated by the waves, had tearful reunions after a day of fear that their loved ones had been swept away on this normally idyllic island and international resort.
Katri Seppanen, 27, of Helsinki, Finland, walked around barefoot, in her salt water-stained T-shirt and skirt, at the Patong Hospital waiting room where she spent the night with her mother and sister. She had a bandaged cut on her leg.
"The water went back, back, back, so far away, and everyone wondered what it was - a full moon or what? Then we saw the wave come, and we ran,'' said a tearful Seppanen, who was on the island's popular Patong beach with her family.
The wave washed over their heads and separated them, and they found each other two hours later. Julie Robertson, 34, of Brisbane, Australia, found her mother, sister and friend Monday morning and screamed in relief upon seeing them at the Amari Hotel on Patong beach. "I'm upset, but I'm happy,'' said Robertson.
Fifty-eight half-naked and swimming suit-clad corpses lay in rows outside the Patong Hospital emergency room. Three babies under the age of one were among the victims. A photo of one baby was posted on the wall of victims.
A monk collecting alms, curious foreign tourists and onlookers walked among the debris on the beach, where one car was stacked on top of another, and upended beach chairs lined the roads and storefronts for a few hundred meters inland.
Among the first items set upright were toppled Buddhist statues.
Greg Miller, 55, of Honolulu, Hawaii, said when he felt the earthquake from his beachfront guesthouse room, he knew from experience at home to immediately look at the ocean for signs of what was to come.
"I finally got a car and managed to get into the hills. I called my friend and warned him not to come, but he drove down here anyway. His car was swept up by the water into the hills, flipping over four times on the way,'' Miller said of his friend who survived.
Tinsel holiday garlands swung from wrecked bars and stores. There were "Merry Christmas'' signs on the walls that remained standing, and on one beach front steak house, a festive foil banner read only "Happy New'' with the third word dangling loosely from the awning.
There was no looting seen as police blocked off some streets from pedestrians and cars but many shopkeepers spent the night in their stores just in case.
John Krueger, 34, of Winter Park, Colorado, described being inside his bungalow Sunday on Khao Luk Beach, north of Phuket, with his wife, Romina Canton, 26, of Rosario, Argentina, when the water filled it and blew it apart.
"The water rushed under the bungalow, brought our floor up and raised us to the ceiling.
"The water blew out our doors, our windows and the back concrete wall. My wife was swept away with the wall, and I had to bust my way through the roof,'' Krueger said while waiting to talk to a U.S. Embassy official at Phuket City Hall.
He said he was sucked 8-10 feet (2.4-3 meters) under the water, and his wife was dragged out into the ocean for more than an hour until a wave brought her back to land again.
He nearly tore his little finger in half when breaking through the roof, and his wife broke her nose, her foot and suffered scratches all over her body.
"It was like white water rafting... She was naked on the beach because she had just gotten out of the shower. It was like being in a washing machine,'' Krueger said. - AP

Topic author: Roberto Mahlab
Replied on: 27/12/2004 12:03:25
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La nostra lettrice Michelle Tan dalla Malesia ci invia le notizie su quanto accade in Indonesia:
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SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE AFTERSHOCK: CATASTROPHE
Published on December 27, 2004
Asia casualties approach 10,000 as tidal waves wreak havoc n Hundreds dead in Thailand n Phuket, Phang Nga, Krabi devastated
Mother Nature’s greatest act of fury in half a century left Thai-land mourning massive casualties and the destruction of its southern islands and coastal areas after giant waves triggered by an earthquake in Indo-nesia swept away lives, property and an economy that took decades to build.
The quake set off tidal waves in a continent-wide ripple effect that swallowed up a large section of Asia’s coastal areas, including Thailand’s holiday resort island of Phuket and five other provinces, where at least 300 people are feared dead and thousands injured.
The death toll is expected to rise.
Eyewitnesses said tidal waves up to 10 metres high crashed down on seaside resorts, bungalows, beach-goers and tossed vehicles and property around like small toys.
At least 44 bodies of foreign tourists were recovered in Phuket alone and authorities feared more would be discovered as rescue workers continue their search for survivors through the night.
In Krabi, most of the nearly 50 fatalities brought to the provincial hospital were fetched from the water, apparently drowning deaths, while others were unable to withstand the force of the waves and died from the impact.
The official death count for Thailand was just over 290 at the time of going press last night.
Authorities in Phang Nga pro-vince reported the highest number of deaths - nearly 80 as of late last night. But that figure seems certain to grow. At the Yarn Yao Buddhist temple in Phang Nga, 102 corpses were laid out at the temple, according to Democrat MP Ju-rin Laksanavisit.
Rescue workers said they saw scores of tourists from a capsized boat floating helplessly in the sea just off Koh Prathong in Phang Nga but were unable to fit any more people on their boat.
Over 100 people were trapped for a time in the basement floor of the Ocean department store on Patong Beach. While most eventually made it to safety, two died during the ordeal, police said.
In Bangkok, the government declared a state of emergency in Phuket and declared the area off limits to visitors.
Prime Minister Thaksin Shina-watra left by helicopter last night to inspect the damage and held an emergency meeting with top officials in Phuket. Ambassadors from 21 countries were also scheduled to leave for the area last night to help with the evacuation of their nationals.
Officials were trying to evacuate more than 600 tourists and residents from Kho Phi Phi, the tiny island made famous by the 2000 film “The Beach” starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
“I just couldn’t believe what was happening before my eyes,” Boree Carlsson told Reuters from a hotel 500 metres from Phuket’s Patong beach.
“As I was standing there, a car actually floated into the lobby and overturned because the current was so strong,” said the 45-year-old Swede, who wrapped himself around a pillar to avoid being swept away.
Swedish tourist Kjell Skold, who was in Phuket with his family, said the wave repeatedly hit his bungalow and took most of the things in the room with it.
“It pushed us to the roof. Then the roof came off and we floated away,” Skold said.
British tourist Paul Ramsbottom told the BBC there were several surges of the sea before the main tsunami struck.
“It happened in cycles. There would be a surge and then it would retreat. And then there would be the next surge which was more violent,” he said.
“And then it died for a little bit and then there was just one almighty surge. This was the one which was picking up trucks and motorcycles and throwing them around.”
The fate of hundreds more tourists remained uncertain as communication with the scores of islands in the area, which are popular with foreign backpackers, was cut off by damage from the tidal waves.
Across Asia, more than 6,600 people in coastal areas in the Indian Ocean and the Andaman Sea were killed by tidal waves caused by the earthquake. They also swept away a huge chunk of the region’s fishing industry and tourism spots that helped put it on the world’s travel map.
Measured at 8.9 on the Richter scale with its epicentre near Sumatra island, the quake was the most powerful to occur in four decades.
Thousands were left homeless in the Maldives, a popular destination for high-end tourists, while much of Burma’s lower coastal area, home to thousands of fishing trawlers, was also devastated.
Television footage showed cars in Sumatra piled up on beaches and stacked like toys on top of houses and small buildings.
The Nation, Agencies
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TIDAL WRATH
Sri Lanka
Dead: 2,500
Thousands of Sri Lankans have abandoned their flooded homes and fled to higher ground after the worst tsunami swamped the south and east shores, leaving scenes of destruction and horror.
India
Dead: 2,000
Vast swathes of land were submerged in one of India’s worst natural disasters in living memory. Wailing relatives gathered on beaches in southern India to claim bodies of victims.
Indonesia
Dead: 1,900
The island of Sumatra has borne the brunt of the tidal assault, as raging waters washed residents out to sea and tore children from their parents’ arms. Medics and police around Aceh said they expect the toll to keep rising with the full extent of the devastation still to be known.
Malaysia
Dead: 42
Most of those killed were swept out to sea as they picnicked at the popular Batu Ferringhi beach on the resort island of Penang.
Burma
Dead: 10
The tsunami, which drove through the Andaman Sea, destroyed a bridge in Kawthaung, southeast Burma, killing 10 people. A number of fishing trawlers are missing at sea.
The Maldives
Dead: 10
The Maldives has declared a state of emergency as the tsunami flooded two-thirds of its capital.

Topic author: Roberto Mahlab
Replied on: 27/12/2004 12:45:57
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Anny Lee, nostra lettrice da Penang, in Malesia e protagonista di alcuni dei racconti apparsi su concerto, ci scrive:
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We are all well and safe eventhough we felt dizzy for a while because of earthquake.

The "TIGER WAVE" is too strong & terrific and affected the areas near the beach and seaside.
Up-todate, the news paper reported in Penang about 50 people dead and some are still missing.

Topic author: Roberto Mahlab
Replied on: 28/12/2004 11:08:45
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La nostra lettrice Jasmine da Israele ci segnala la partenza per le aree colpite delle squadre mediche degli ospedali israeliani, stanno tentando di innalzare ospedali da campo nello Sri Lanka.
E' in corso una mobilitazione internazionale per portare soccorso alle aree colpite da quella che si conferma di ora in ora una delle maggiori catastrofi della Storia.
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Subject: Hadassah in Southeast Asia

The message is from the HMO Department - Diane M. Issenberg, Chair, and Tobey R. Olken, Esq., vice-Chair.

Dear Colleagues,

We were informed that, at the request of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, four of Hadassah doctors left Israel last night, and are on their way to Colombo, Sri Lanka. This area was severely hit by the tidal wave created by an earthquake off the shore of Indonesia, causing injury and death of thousands of people in the region.

Prof. Avi Rivkind, Head of General Surgery and the Trauma Unit, Prof. Dan Engelhardt, Head of Pediatrics, and Prof. Yoel Donchin and Dr. Yuval Meroz from the Anesthesiology Department will extend help to the victims in every way possible, using their vast experience in extending medical care to disaster victims. We will keep you updated as soon as reports on their work become available.

Topic author: Beppe Andrianò
Replied on: 28/12/2004 13:30:05
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Il link che descrive tecnicamente quanto accaduto e fornisce altri elementi e' il seguente:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/usslav/

Io lo sto consultando per riuscire a capire se i miei amici che gestiscono un resort in Indonesia possono essere stati influenzati.

Il link del loro resort e' il seguente:

http://www.siladen.com

e la mappa è la seguente

http://www.siladen.com/ita/mappa.asp

Appena avro' notizie vi faro' sapere ma sembra che siano fuori dalla zona di influenza come si vede da questa immagine..

Che illustra anche quanti terremoti e maremoti ci sono in quelle zone..

ciao
beppe

Beppe Andrianò

Topic author: Admin
Replied on: 29/12/2004 09:39:10
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Caro Marcello,
Non credo che sia come dici avevo visto la pubblicità di "tempesta perfetta" ben prima di natale..
Comunque se questo ha aiutato a far si che in due giorni in italia solo mandando un SMS al 48580 (unificato per tutti gli operatori) siamo stati capaci di raccogliere 5 Milioni di euro.. mentre TUTTA l'europa ne ha stanziati 30.. ben vengano anche le eventuali variazioni di programmazione.

mandate un sms del valore di 1 euro al numero 48580 per l'operazione coordinata da "Canale 5 - Corriere della sera" per gli aiuti nel SudEst Asiatico a seguito dello Tsunami che ne ha devastato ampie zone creando fino ad ora quasi 75mila morti con prospettive terribili per le eventuali epidemie (pandemie) conseguenti.

Concertodisogni

Topic author: Roberto Mahlab
Replied on: 29/12/2004 14:36:26
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Da Penang, Malesia, il lettore di concerto di sogni Steven Ho, ci ha appena trasmesso:
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We are very fortunate as we suffered small damages as compared to Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia and Thailand. In total Malaysia still have 64 casulties and hundred injured as a result of the strong waves created by the 9.0 earth quake. The old saying life is but a strunggle against natural disasters, diseases, accidents, political uprisings, wars and etc. is true. Tsunami never happened in Malaysia for the last 100 years, so our government and in fact nobody has any idea how to deal with it or to provide any early warning system.

Life is back to normal in Malaysia.

Topic author: Elena Fiorentini
Replied on: 31/12/2004 11:29:57
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Una testimonianza ci giunge in questo momento da Puket.
Andate in Due chiacchiere , accendete gli altoparlanti e ascoltate.
Elena

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