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I will pray for them don't worry, I am praying for them, I have been since I heard the news of everything that happened, its really bad.. I feel very sorry for all of the families and stuff....

Yeah i herad about it on the news. It was the strongest Earthquake since 60 Years.

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Originally posted by Kryptonate

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Originally posted by traxor
I was listening to Radio 1, and there is a line that you can call to check that your family members are okay, maybe you should try and find that out...

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normally lines like that are for people from (in your case) the UK to ask information about other inhabitants of the UK who are spending their holidays in an area where a disaster struck.

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Many countries have their own numbers, like Switzerland i know has, and Germany has their own. But its tough getting through as the lines are full. 

Luckyly no-one i know went there, but i feel very sorry for the people who are there.

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Originally posted by The Napster
Yeah i herad about it on the news. It was the strongest Earthquake since 60 Years.

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Originally posted by Kryptonate

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Originally posted by traxor
I was listening to Radio 1, and there is a line that you can call to check that your family members are okay, maybe you should try and find that out...

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normally lines like that are for people from (in your case) the UK to ask information about other inhabitants of the UK who are spending their holidays in an area where a disaster struck.

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Many countries have their own numbers, like Switzerland i know has, and Germany has their own. But its tough getting through as the lines are full. 

Luckyly no-one i know went there, but i feel very sorry for the people who are there.

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I know, I just used the UK as an example because traxor is from the UK. Belgium has got its own line too.

hey saralk, watch the news, they show the helpline no.(star news does, i saw the nos. yesterday)

Saralk, Chennai is in a bit of a mess. Ya in the morn. papers here its written over 10000 dead. Tsunami's were awesome man. I saw some video's and it was like they were drifting away whole cars. They travel at such high speeds and my god do they cause destruction or what !!!
8.9 on the richter scale is the biggest quake in the last 40 years !!! The tsunami's were the 4th biggest of all time.
I'll pray for all ppl misssing and injured. Hope they'll be ok.

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Originally posted by Choli
it had 8.9 degrees in the ritcher scale

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richter scale is from 0 to 9..

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that's not exactly true. That scale measures the energy of the earthquake using logarithms *; that means that the more energy an earthquake has, the higher degrees in that scale, with no limit. However, 9 degrees is quite a lot and it's "nearly impossible" to have an eathquake so big.

* -> ie: each point more in that scale means an earthquake with 10 times more energy.

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btw, i've heard on the radio a couple of hours ago that there are already 25000 deaths

Yeah, the whole death toll has moved up, and it is really quite sad, it doesn't help when I'm at my mates using aol, and the main window thing that starts up has pictures of loads of people weeping, its just horrible...

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Originally posted by The Napster
Yeah i herad about it on the news. It was the strongest Earthquake since 60 Years.

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And the 5th largest recorded earthquake.
http://geology.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?z...ts/10maps_usa.html

didnt hit the area where my family is thankgod, they wouldnt have been prepared i mean the first earthquake in gujarat was pretty shocking.

we still havent heard from my family in India, were not sure if its because the unthinkable has happened or if it is because the phone lines are in a gridlock there. Weve been trying to get through and all we get are busy line tones.

Hoping it is the latter.