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To: Mannie who wrote (39107)	12/27/2004 11:25:36 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104197

He said the tidal wave had gone 4K miles to hit the coast of Africa. I don't recall what he said about its force, tho. I posted an article a few months back, in which some folks were talking about this very thing off the Azores; would be devastating to both Europe and the East Coast. Something this big is hard to imagine; it's like 10 times the SF quake, 15 times the size of my 7.8 biggie. Shows the power of Ma Nature; moving an island, raising mountains (I think the 1890 or whatever quake in Owens Valley lifted the Sierras about 20 feet). Thanks for the rain. Thought I was going to get snow last night, but it held off; made it down to the peak across the valley that always gets it just before us, but we probably missed by 150 feet. So far.

To: Mannie who wrote (39107)	12/27/2004 11:48:42 AM
From: Clappy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104197

I read somewhere that the whole island of Sumatra shifted 100ft to the SE... Holy Shit. 23,000 dead so far. ksbitv.com "The entire Maldives, I think, for a moment disappeared from the planet Earth," he said. "Some islands may have completely disappeared, we don't know yet. But all the islands have been affected." <snip> Along India's southeastern coast, several villages were swept away, and thousands of fishermen who were at sea when the waves thundered ashore have not returned. <snip> "And then I could hear the rush behind me," he said. "I looked and I could see the wall of water coming towards us. ... The wave caught up with us ... and it washed us, I guess, another 50 yards into a mangrove swamp. We were very lucky not to be hit by all the debris that there was. I mean, it was carrying small boats with it, carrying logs, masonry. It was a terrifying experience." <snip> "The damage is just phenomenal," said Jan Egelund, U.N. emergency relief coordinator. "I think we are seeing now one of the worst natural disasters ever."