"Most powerful earthquake in 40 years."

[Gujustud]

Originally Posted by Tarolisol

DID you hear, the force of the wave moved the entire island of sumatra 100ft

It was later posted today in the vancouver sun that the LA times who had written this was incorrect.

[Tarolisol]

Originally Posted by Gujustud

It was later posted today in the vancouver sun that the LA times who had written this was incorrect.

Really i heard it on CNN, i guess they get there information from the LA times.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

American News sources. Going for the SPLASHY HEADLINES & I guess accuracy gets lost along the way, eh. I saw it on CNN too & I think on NBC, but that sounded pretty impossible to me. They said they were going to use satellite technology to measure the "shift". Maybe they should find out who started the rumour that turned into a "news" story.

[StirCrazy]

the big special on it last night did say the wave moved a couple island a few meters as it raced along, and that they will have to change maps to reflect this.

Steve

[danny zubot]

First of all I'd like to extend my condolences to anyone who knows victims of the tsunami.

I have heard very little about the theory of the planet's axis changing due to the earthquake. Is there a site available so that I might indulge my curiosity? I wonder if the recent cold snap has anything to do with a possilbe shift in ocean currents? Just like in the movie The Day After Tommorow.

[Quinn]

http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/nati...nce041229.html

[G1GY]

I concider myself pretty hard and emotionaly detached from most things, but seeing the stories coming out of the area are enough to tug at my very short heart strings.

Since people like us get so much happieness sent to us from this part of the world(The stuff we keep in our glass boxes), I feel obligated to try to give something back. (However small and meaningless my contribution might seem)

I'm quoting Tony's post from another page to let others know that you can help. (Because this post is the one that made me reallise that I can do without my next couple of purchases and try to help.)

Originally Posted by Delphinus

If you would like to help ....

www.redcross.ca
www.oxfam.ca
www.unicef.ca
www.worldvision.ca

Thanks for the links Tony.

[Quinn]

My worry is, how much of the donated money is being skimmed off the top by bureaucrats and shaddy NGO employees, and who's administering where it goes to? I wonder if the $40 million our government has committed will be better handled.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

My wife & I sent our donation via WorldVision, a charitable organization with a stellar (as far as I know) reputation for helping people, especially children, with the funds sent to them.

[Chin_Lee]

I just used the Red Cross Donate Now Online option and it was easy as pie. I've been talking to my wife alot about how helpless I felt being here and not being able to go there to help. It made me sick to my stomach when i heard the news report of people still going to those areas trying to have a vacation. If i could get away from work, I would gladly take one of those cancelled flights from vacationers and go there to help out in anyway or form. But for now, I made a generous donation to the Red Cross .... the least I could do for such a magnitude of a disaster. The last I heard was 117000 people dead. That number is just shocking to me ..... that over 25% of the population of Surrey and over 39 times the number of people that perished in 9/11.