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To: Brumar89 who wrote (92113)	1/9/2005 6:17:47 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

"1883 Krakatoa eruption tsunamis killed 36K+ in Indonesia. And no shrimp farms to blame it on. Nobody knows how many people were washed out to sea by these enormous waves. For months after the eruption, the Sunda Straits where congested with thick pumice banks, often containing fifty or more corpses. The official number of dead was calculated by Dutch authorities at 36,417, 90 percent of which were killed by the tsunamis. Two weeks after the disaster, one traveler describes his observations where the village of Tjaringin once stood: "Thousands of corpses of human beings and also carcasses of animals still await burial, and make their presence apparent by the indescribable stench. They lie in knots and entangled masses impossible to unravel, and often jammed along with coconut stems among all that had served these thousands as dwellings, furniture, farming implements, and adornments for houses and compounds." -- From Zeilinga de Boer and Sanders, 2002" geology.sdsu.edu Okay, no shrimp farms to blame that one on--I would agree. But do you think shrimp farms are a good thing, really?