Tsunami.

Vaya que la historia nos marcara, me pregunto como habra sido antes, la cantidad de noticias de las que no te enterarias por estar al otro lado del mundo, pero lo que me pregunto es si el no saberlo les afectaria, ahorita yo creo que muchos estaran tan consternados como con los tostados, pero esque no es para menos, 40,000 muertos no se dice facil, y los que faltan, segun la Red Cross (77,828) esto aumentara minimo al doble en los dias siguientes, ademas la ONU ya se preocupo, no nos vayamos a enfermar por aca, acabo de checar en Reutes y ya van 63 mil que tienen que enterrar ya porque si no, si nos va a terminar pegando.

The United Nations mobilized what it called the biggest relief operation in its history to cope with the disaster.

The colossal surge was triggered by a undersea earthquake of magnitude 9.0, the biggest in 40 years, off the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It spread an arc of death from Indonesia to Sri Lanka and beyond to Africa. U.S. scientists said the quake that set off the wall of water had moved tectonic plates beneath the Indian Ocean by up to 30 meters (100 feet), causing the Earth to wobble on its axis and permanently shortening the day by a fraction of a second.
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Thais discover 700 bodies in single resort

The estimated death toll in Thailand doubled overnight after 700 bodies were found in the wreckage of hotels on one stretch of beach on the mainland north of Phuket island. At Khao Lak, rescuers recovered bodies from the rubble of upmarket resorts such as the Sofitel Hotel where 500 guests and staff were still missing yesterday. Most victims were in the dining room when the tsunami struck, snapping concrete pillars in half and destroying two of its three floors. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=596642
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The lost generation

Up to half the 60,000 victims of the tsunami are children, says UN. Tens of thousands more are orphaned, and face threat of disease The walls of water sent crashing onto the coasts of south Asia by the biggest earthquake in 40 years took a disproportionate number of young lives. It may have been as many as half of the victims - the toll stood at 60,000 last night. As the calmer waters return a steady flow of bodies, communities are coming to terms with a lost generation. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=596642
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Thai police deployed to stop looting

Up to 600 police have been sent to Phang Nga, the province worst hit by the waves, provincial police chief Major General Jead Suveeranont said. So far, 13 Burmese migrant workers had been arrested, he said. An officer in the province's Takua Pa district, which includes the town of Khao Lak, said that 100 Burmese migrant workers stole from the bodies of tourists on the first day of the disaster.
http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1274&storyid=2443215
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Areas afectadas por el Tsunami y su propagacion.

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OMS: Agua contaminada, principal peligro de enfermedades en zona devastada por tsunami

El peligro de epidemias en los países azotados por el tsunami en el sureste asiático deriva de la contaminación del agua potable, no de los cadáveres de las víctimas, afirmó hoy Pino Annunziata, experto de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS). “No es necesario tomar precauciones como enterrarlos en fosas comunes o quemarlos. Es más, tienen derecho a ser sepultados de acuerdo a su religión o tradición” En cuanto al agua, es contaminada por las heces, ya que el sistema de drenaje ha sido afectado.

http://www.un.org/spanish/News/fullstorynews.asp?newsID=3734&criteria1=tsunami&criteria2=
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ONU colaborará en implementación de sistemas de alarma temprana en países del sureste asiático

La Organización de las Naciones Unidas anunció hoy que colaborará en el esfuerzo colectivo de establecer en los países del sureste asiático un sistema de alarma temprana que pueda evitar desastres de la magnitud del provocado por el tsunami del pasado domingo 26. Los sistemas podrían estar funcionando a finales del año entrante. http://www.un.org/spanish/News/fullstorynews.asp?newsID=3739&criteria1=tsunami&criteria2=
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60km from epicentre, a city lies in ruins

From the air, it could be Hiroshima - a town hit with such devastating force it has literally been flattened. From the air it looks like the people of this town, on the west coast of Sumatra, never had the chance to run. Huge waves swept in from the Indian Ocean, smashing virtually every building in their path. Mayor Tengku Zulkarnaen said three-quarters of his city of 95,000 people had been washed away. "We can't calculate it all now, but a rough estimate is tens of thousands dead," he told El Shinta radio.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/12/29/1103996615409.html?oneclick=true
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Sri Lanka: Holiday trip turns into horror ride
Maldives: A tough choice - rebuild or abandon
Thailand: Making sense of figures is grim work
Kenya: Quick thinking saves hundreds of revellers
United States: We're not stingy, says Powell
Europe: Fears rise for thousands of missing tourists
Britain: Actor loses three members of family
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