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Off Topic => Ten Forward => Topic started by: toasty0 on December 26, 2004, 10:09:19 am

Title: Indonesia takes a bath!
Post by: toasty0 on December 26, 2004, 10:09:19 am

http://msnbc.msn.com/

Some estimates claim 8,900 dead. :o

Title: Re: Indonesia takes a bath!
Post by: S'Raek on December 26, 2004, 10:20:28 am

Ah, I just posted this over in H&S.  Tragic!   :(

Title: Re: Indonesia takes a bath!
Post by: toasty0 on December 26, 2004, 09:21:51 pm

I agree. Most devastating...

(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Maps/Asia-Pacific/m_IndoQuake_041226.gif)

Title: Re: Indonesia takes a bath!
Post by: Jack Morris on December 26, 2004, 09:57:54 pm

Not to sound mean or anything disrespectful, but that area is high in oil production. I wonder if it will impact prices tomorrow? I used to know a woman from Indonesia who worked on the oil rigs as an engineer. I'm sure the oil rigs that got slammed did not fare so well. Hurricanes and Typhoons are one thing, but a massive tidal wave? I also wonder if any cruise ships were sailing at the time, much less other transports. I wish I was a computer guru, I'd simulate the tidal waves hitting a Suezmax tanker at different angles and see how it fares.

Title: Re: Indonesia takes a bath!
Post by: S'Raek on December 27, 2004, 04:06:05 am

I'm far from an expert in how fluids work, but would there be a large wave out at sea?  I thought the reason the waves grew was that when the shock wave got closer to shore it was compacted by the rising sea bed.  Or something like that. 

Personally I won't mind a bit of a higher gas prices (they are high already), but 10,000 dead or more is tragic.   :(

Title: Re: Indonesia takes a bath!
Post by: Brush Wolf on December 27, 2004, 05:25:36 am

SRaek is correct, the waves only grow as they approach shore.  It is an unfortunate fact that when they have a disaster in that part of the world that it happens on an almost biblical scale.