Just to add to Reg's links, The Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake> has more statistics and information about this terrible disaster. Enjoy your LSL Reg Jon
On 1/1/05 9:44 PM, "Reg Whitely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you Mike for the great tsunami references > @ http://ioc.unesco.org/itsu/templates/itsu/images/animation.gif > > I'm impressed, and of course deeply saddened. I thought this link from > your reference was even better: > http://ioc.unesco.org/itsu/contents.php?id=135 > It shows a graphic image of the time taken for the tsunami to travel > across the entire Indian Ocean. 5.5 hours to us here on the SW corner > of this little continent. > > Your BBC News animated link at: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4136289.stm > is wonderful. Sadly it's a graphic tool demonstrating the absolute > power of nature. > > From the ioc.unesco website I found this link which is scary too. > http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/bulletin.html > Not having seen this database before, and having no scientific (or > other) knowledge of the prevalence of earthquakes, I found this log of > the "Worldwide Earthquake Activity in the Last Seven Days" *sobering*. > Eg The most recent entry is 2005/01/01 06:25:44 5.05N 92.26E 10.0km > 6.5 Scale OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA > > BBC News UK web page showing images sent in by the public. The third > image strikes me, as, if my interpretation is correct, the tsunami is > visible behind the little ocean village. I really don't want to imagine > what happened next. > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4135141.stm > 3 of 7 Leslie Sharpe: "I have not seen any photos of the tsunami out at > sea but here is one I took at Telok Bahang, North West Penang. I was > walking with my family in the Penang National Park." > > Thank you WAMUGgers for your continued advice, support and friendship. > From year in to year out I have really appreciated it. Remember that > the more you put into life, the more you are rewarded by it. > > Have a wonderful 2005 > > Regards > > Reg > > Reg Whitely > Principal, Augusta Primary School > Soon to be on Long Service Leave > And then resurfacing as Deputy Principal, Beachlands Primary School > Geraldton > (Division 4 win in $31m Lotto suggests this career move is imminent:-)) > AEE 2002-2003 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Home: 08 9758 0881, Mob: 042 799 1211 > ________________________________________________________________________ > ___ > 'The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher > regard > those who think alike than those who think differently.' > _________________________________________________________Friedrich > Nietzsche > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro > ------------------------------------------- Jon Bjorn Jonsson M.Ed. MACE ICT Co-ordinator Canning Vale Primary School Phone 9455 4788 - fax 9455 4259 -------------------------------------------
