Tsunami in the South Pacific
 

I have a feeling this won't get as much attention.

America will get bored if these keep happening.

200,000+ dead in the last one.

13 dead in this one (so far)

We don't care what happens to brown people. Just look at New Orleans ...

I'm just good at predicting media attention.....don't hate.

Well, you do have a valid point. The risk of bird flu is as high or higher than it was last year, since wild birds keep spreading it farther, but the press has stopped reporting on it.

It was a bit eerie at first when the reports started coming out. Not the least because I was sitting 20 metres form the coast making work phone calls and listening to the radio. They sounded just like the reports at the start of the Indonesian wave disaster: "couple of people dead, unknown damage" to "some people dead some damage".

It changed when we got Tsunami warnings of our own and all the beaches were closed! Then there was the curious "do we evacuate or go down the beach for a look?" for the next four hours. When it became evident here that nothing was going to happen everyone just sort of said "Ok" and went back to the afternoon traffic chaos.

We really need a better warning system.

It's just god's way of letting everyone know who's gonna get screwed when the polar icecaps melt.

National Geographic is reporting that the island of Ranongga, in the Solomans was raised 10 feet after the quake, exposing vast stretches of coral reefs to the air and killing them. Amazing.

Better raised than lowered...

I bet there would be some great IOTD pictures of that.

This link shows pictures