The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami
Dec 28th, 2004 by cadmus
Well, quite a few people are blogging heavily about the disaster, so I’m just going to do a round up for now.
A blog has been set up to report the news by people in the area:
tsunamihelp.blogspot.com
Jeff Jarvis has some different links about how the disaster is being covered by bloggers. Plus, links to first hand accounts. Just visit his site and scroll down.
From Google News: Turkish Press is reporting that the death toll has climbed to over 55,000. That’s in two days. That only covers those killed by the tsunami. Will the tally be double that because of disease, hunger and thirst?
CNN.com has video and pictures and has this list of websites for aid agencies that you can that are taking donations to help with the relief effort.
The NYT has an article about the coverage of the disaster blogs are providing.
NYT The Internet: Blogs Provide Raw Details From Scene of the Disaster
For vivid reporting from the enormous zone of tsunami disaster, it was hard to beat the blogs.
The so-called blogosphere, with its personal journals published on the Web, has become best known as a forum for bruising political discussion and media criticism. But the technology proved a ready medium for instant news of the tsunami disaster and for collaboration over ways to help.
The article has lots of links to the blogs it covers, and those blogs have some interesting pictures. The article also has an interactive graphic of the earthquake and tsunami. It shows with animation how the tsunami spread across the ocean. Powerful visual.
The Command Post – Global Recon has a huge amount of coverage. We’re talking dozens of links for disaster relief and news. I want to point out one major topic of import. This disaster has struck the nations of the Indian Ocean, even killing 10 Tanzanians in Africa, and we must focus our efforts in the areas hardest hit. But when you look at the list of people killed and see how they come from every inhabited continent, you come to realize that this is a global catastrophe.
From Wizbang! we have this post that links this article. Here’s the most startling quote:
Vice-President Yusuf Kalla, who made an aerial reconnaisance of the western coastline and outlying islands said he saw no signs of life in Meulaboh, a town with a population of 40,000.
SI.com SI model Nemcova survives tsunami
“People and kids were screaming all over the place, ”Help, help.” And after a few minutes, you didn’t hear the kids anymore.”
She hung in a palm tree for 8 hours with a broken pelvis and internal injuries. Her boyfriend, who she watched being pulled out to sea, is still missing.
