Death Toll from Earthquake at 79,000

[irishgrl]

Originally Posted by David

The death tallies for Sumatra 2004 vary pretty widely. They range from 225,000 (National Geophysical Data Center) to upwards of 283,106 (USGS Earthquake Hazards Program page). That's not counting the "missing," many of whose bodies probably washed out to sea & never washed back in again. Tragic as the Pakistan quake toll is, it seems to be significantly less than Indonesia. It's virtually impossible to get minutely accurate data from events of such huge proportions in the Third World, whose inhabitants don't all walk around with various types of government ID cards.

Interesting, I hadnt heard those numbers.
And, the death toll in Pakistan isnt done yet. there are still very large aftershocks, and I suspect, many more bodies to count. Apparently I may be wrong about this event being more devastating than Sumatra, but I'll wait and see what the end totals are...

in any event, its amazingly deadly considering the fact that those areas are mountainous and I didnt realize there were that many people in the region.

What with Wilma coming up hard after Katrina and Rita, how the Ovoid Office can say there's no global warming is beyond me....There's plenty of evidence in our times that we need to make some drastic changes (off topic I know, sorry)