Too many natural disasters lately

wondergirl9847 · #1 10-08-2005, 02:47 PM

Earthquake Kills 3,000 Across South Asia

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake near the Pakistan-India border Saturday reduced villages to rubble, triggered landslides and flattened an apartment building. More than 3,000 people were killed in both nations, and a Pakistan army spokesman called the devastation "a national tragedy." The toll included 250 girls who died when their school in northwestern Pakistan collapsed. Another 500 students were injured, said Ataullah Khan Wazir, police chief in the northwestern district of Mansehra.

http://news.yahoo.com/fc/science/ear..._and_volcanoes

estranged4life · #2 10-08-2005, 04:20 PM

letting us know that she can shake humanity off of her like a bunch of itchy fleas.

Brian "Save the planet? Are you kidding me?...The planet is fine, However the people are f**ked-George Carlin" j.

wondergirl9847 · #3 10-08-2005, 04:38 PM

Mudslides, Floods in Guatemala Kill 500
By MARK STEVENSON, Associated

SANTIAGO ATITLAN, Guatemala - A week of mudslides and flooding across Guatemala have killed more than 500 people and left another 337 missing, federal emergency officials said Saturday as rescuers in Central America and Mexico still tried to reach isolated areas.

The newest death toll includes 37 people killed by a landslide in western Guatemala along the Mexican border. A fire official put Guatemala's death toll Friday at 287.

Guatemala has borne the brunt of heavy rains exacerbated by Hurricane Stan, which made landfall Tuesday on the Mexican Gulf Coast before quickly weakening to a tropical depression.

On the banks of the mountain Lake Atitlan, dozens of Mayan Indian villagers swarmed over a vast river of congealed mud that covered trees and houses, digging with hand tools for bodies under a landslide that swallowed an entire neighborhood.

Primitive wooden coffins piled up in the cemetery in Santiago Atitlan, waiting for badly decomposed bodies. Villagers held sprigs of native herbs to ward off odors as they dug mass graves for bodies that would be buried without names.

"Entire families have disappeared," said Diego Sojuel of the Santiago Atitlan municipal aid committee. "In some cases there is no one that can identify the cadavers. And in other cases it is because of the state of putrefaction that we are going to have to bury them without names."

wondergirl9847 · #4 10-09-2005, 12:21 AM

Quake Kills More Than 18,000 in South Asia

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A powerful earthquake flattened entire villages of mud-brick homes, triggered landslides and toppled a 10-story apartment building on Saturday, killing more than 18,000 people as it devastated a mountainous swath touching Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.

I can't believe it went from 1,700 when I saw that this morning, to over 18,000 now.

tommer · #5 10-09-2005, 12:30 PM

that's weird... i come back from the Thai bay and then they're hit by tsunami, now i'm back from Kashmir and there's an earthquake there... how come there are no natural catastrophes in Israel?

David · #6 10-09-2005, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by tommer

that's weird... i come back from the Thai bay and then they're hit by tsunami, now i'm back from Kashmir and there's an earthquake there... how come there are no natural catastrophes in Israel?

Tommer, you're like Mr. Magoo. You drive around, carefree, & leave a wake of terror & destruction behind you -- unbeknown to you!

tommer · #7 10-09-2005, 02:17 PM

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Originally Posted by David

Tommer, you're like Mr. Magoo. You drive around, carefree, & leave a wake of terror & destruction behind you -- unbeknown to you!

exactly my point. if that's of any consolation tho, due to my current financial state, there are not many countries in immediate danger.