Fucking unreal, completely unreal. This is a natural disaster beyond natural disasters. to every victim. Such a tragic event, hearts go out to those people.
Over 60,000 dead people now. Fucking unbelievable. Mother Earth must've had PMS or something Word has it that our boss (a really great chap) was in Phukket with his family. No one has heard from them yet.
Damn this sucks , i just saw this photos taken from some satellites , here's one of them , check the size of the waves in lower left corner : [edit] just have heard the total nuber of dead reached 70.000 and it's NOT final... my God
This .gif taken from satellite images shows how bad it actually was, especially over towards Sri Lanka and India;
Mankind is poweless against such kind of dessasters. I hope noone of you has / had relatives or friends in this area. I'm speechless...
the problem with tsunamis is, that on the open sea, the height of the wave is about 50 cm to some meters and the wavelength can be hundreds of kilometers long. not dangerous to ships! they even don't notice the tsunami wave. it becomes deadly when it hits the shore or shallow sea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami