Asian death toll reaches 44,000

[GameMaster]

At least the deaths are the result of natural causes instead of man-made. It's still sad.

[Jonbo298]

Originally Posted by GameMaster

At least the deaths are the result of natural causes instead of man-made. It's still sad.

Actually, its a mixture of both. I heard that over the years, hotel resorts and whatnot have been moving closer to the coastline and with all the people who were moving closer to it, this is the result. So it was a natural cause with man made things (or just people in general) moving closer to the coastline.

[Crash]

Death toll = 76,700... expected to be over 100,000 in the next couple days... yikes... that's a lot of people... did they find jet li yet or is he still missing?

[Professor S]

Well all of these countries should feel much better now, as I just saw on TV that France has pledged $136,000 to the relief effort...

In case you didn't get it, that was DRIPPING with sarcasm. And people wonder why we hate France...

[Crash]

Originally Posted by The Strangler

Well all of these countries should feel much better now, as I just saw on TV that France has pledged $136,000 to the relief effort...

In case you didn't get it, that was DRIPPING with sarcasm. And people wonder why we hate France...

$136,000??? and they were making fun of the US's $20 Million

you could rebuild one of the ocean side bungalos for the $136,000.... wow good job france...


other horrible natural disasters

The Great Tangshan Earthquake, 1976

it was in china and killed over 240,000 people (some reports say 655,000 people dead, and 780,000 injured, dunno why the differences so big) .... I doubt this will top that...

it's easy for a lot of people to die in one area when it is so over crowded.




The Great China Earthquake of 1556

The worse natural disaster in recorded history, at least in terms of lives lost, was caused by an earthquake in Hausien in the Shensi Province of China in 1556. The earthquake devastated 98 counties and eight provinces of Central China. The destruction spanned an area of 500 miles, and in some counties the average death toll was 60 percent of the population. A total of 830,000 people lost their lives, most of them from the collapse of poorly constructed houses. The magnitude of this earthquake has been estimated to be from 8.0 to 8.3 on the Richter scale.

[Neo]

Whoa....We're up to 80,000...