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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AtulaSiriwardane" data-source="post: 3671471" data-attributes="member: 120286"> SIRASA is telecasting about Tsunami while others have forgotten it altogether. They may have misunderstood the call for two minutes of silence. <img src="http://ceeserver.cee.cornell.edu/pll-group/images/2004_tsunami_Thailand_resize.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://newxspotters.com/photoAlbums/tsunamiDestination/images/Tsunami%202004%208_jpg.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://aycu09.webshots.com/image/24888/2005434918245526875_rs.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://www.aegweb.org/images/Geologic%20Hazards/tsunami%282%29.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://www.whatstheplanstan.govt.nz/mcdem/img/tsunami/images/13-Sumatra20062.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://a.abcnews.com/images/International/rt_srilanka_2_041228_ssh.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Damage and casualties   <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chennai_beach2.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b8/Chennai_beach2.jpg/180px-Chennai_beach2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chennai_beach2.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chennai" target="_blank">Chennai's</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_beach" target="_blank">Marina beach</a> after the Tsunami The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Geological_Survey" target="_blank">U.S. Geological Survey</a> initially recorded the toll as 283,100 killed, 14,100 missing, and 1,126,900 people displaced. However, more recent analysis compiled by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations" target="_blank">United Nations</a> lists a total of 229,866 people lost, including 186,983 dead and 42,883 missing.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake#cite_note-42" target="_blank">[43]</a> The figure excludes 400 to 600 people who are believed to have perished in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar" target="_blank">Myanmar</a>, which is more than that government's official figure of only 61 dead.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake#cite_note-asianews-1" target="_blank">[2]</a> If the higher Myanmar figures are reliable, the death toll would include at least 230,000 people. Measured in lives lost, this is one of the ten <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes#Deadliest_earthquakes_on_record" target="_blank">worst earthquakes in recorded history</a>, as well as the single worst tsunami in history. The tsunami caused serious damage and deaths as far as the east coast of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa" target="_blank">Africa</a>, with the furthest recorded death due to the tsunami occurring at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rooi_Els&action=edit&redlink=1" target="_blank">Rooi Els</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa" target="_blank">South Africa</a>, 8,000 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilometre" target="_blank">km</a> (4,971 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile" target="_blank">mi</a>) away from the epicentre. In total, eight people in South Africa died due to abnormally high sea levels and waves. Relief agencies report that one-third of the dead appear to be children. This is a result of the high proportion of children in the populations of many of the affected regions and because children were the least able to resist being overcome by the surging waters. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxfam" target="_blank">Oxfam</a> went on to report that as many as four times more women than men were killed in some regions because they were waiting on the beach for the fishermen to return and looking after their children in the houses.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake#cite_note-43" target="_blank">[44]</a> In addition to the large number of local residents, up to 9,000 foreign tourists (mostly Europeans) enjoying the peak holiday travel season were among the dead or missing, especially people from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_countries" target="_blank">Nordic countries</a>. The European nation hardest hit may have been <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden" target="_blank">Sweden</a>, whose death toll was 543.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake#cite_note-44" target="_blank">[45]</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_emergency" target="_blank">States of emergency</a> were declared in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka" target="_blank">Sri Lanka</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia" target="_blank">Indonesia</a>, and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldives" target="_blank">Maldives</a>. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations" target="_blank">United Nations</a> estimated at the outset that the relief operation (which is presently still underway) would be the costliest in human history. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_Secretary-General" target="_blank">UN Secretary-General</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kofi_Annan" target="_blank">Kofi Annan</a> has stated that reconstruction would probably take between five and ten years. Governments and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-governmental_organisation" target="_blank">non-governmental organisations</a> fear the final <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_toll" target="_blank">death toll</a> may double as a result of diseases, prompting a massive <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanitarian_response_to_the_2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake" target="_blank">humanitarian response</a>. For purposes of establishing timelines of local events, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone" target="_blank">time zones</a> of affected areas are: UTC+3: (Kenya, Madagascar, Somalia, Tanzania); UTC+4: (Mauritius, Réunion, Seychelles); UTC+5: (Maldives); UTC+5:30: (India); UTC+6: (Bangladesh, Sri Lanka); UTC+6:30: (Cocos Islands, Myanmar); UTC+7: (Indonesia (western), Thailand); UTC+8: (Malaysia, Singapore). Since the earthquake occurred at 00:58:53 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC" target="_blank">UTC</a>, add the above offsets to find the local time of the earthquake.    <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_on_Sri_Lanka" target="_blank">Sri Lanka</a> <a href="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/dec2005/sri2-d29.shtml" target="_blank">Deaths Confirmed 35,322</a> <a href="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/dec2005/sri2-d29.shtml" target="_blank">Deaths Estimated 21,411</a> Displaced   <a href="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/dec2005/sri2-d29.shtml" target="_blank">516,150</a>     </blockquote>

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