我的泰国计划取消

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唉……
计划赶不上变化。
上午老爸打来电话，表示很担心。本来我也在犹豫，新闻说泰国5000多外国旅游者死亡或者失踪，饮用水也成问题，药品也成问题……钱也成问题……
下定决心，取消计划，回家陪老爸。

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印报称灾区余震不断 海啸不大可能性再发生
http://www.sina.com.cn 2004年12月29日 18:43 中国新闻网

　　中新网12月29日电 据《印度时报》报道，遭到海啸袭击的印度安达曼群岛在未来六个月至一年内仍将不时发生余震。至星期二早上，发生在安达曼群岛上的5级以上的余震的次数已增加至48次。余震仍将继续发生。

　　但是再次发生海啸的可能性不大，海啸通常是由7.5级或者更高震级的地震所引发的。事实上，本次海啸是印度东海岸自1883年以来遭遇到的首次海啸。

　　气象部门已警告安德曼群岛的居民不要进入或者居住在受损的建筑物内。它还警告船只在最近两天内不要出海。

　　有迹象显示余震震级的强度正在不断减弱。至星期二早上纪录到的余震的震级为5级至5.8级之间。

　　地震学家称，地球从苏门答腊外海发生的强震中恢复过来还需要一定的时间，海底出现了长达1000公里的裂缝。余震可能持续一年或者更长的时间。地震学家称，在阿萨姆邦 1950年发生8.0级地震后，余震就持续了两年。但这并不意味着地震活动的频率将增加。地震学家达特拉亚姆说：“这是一个地震活跃地区，但是趋势表明地震活动的频率并不会增加。

　　海洋开发部门秘书古布塔对此表示赞同。他说：“就长期而言，例如在过去五十年内，地震活动的频率就没有增加。”正在为建立海啸预警系统进行前期工作的古布塔说，印度东海岸只在1883年曾受到一次海啸的袭击，那是由于火山爆发而引发的。(春风)

裂缝

大地震释放了积蓄起来的能量，一般来说再次出现大地震的可能性不大（但也有例外，唐山大地震前就曾出现过一次比较大的地震），小幅的余震会持续不断。

对攀岩者来说，生活设施被破坏，瘟疫等才是最大的影响。

今天有位朋友刚从斯里兰卡回来，海啸发生时他正在南部的海滩，因为海边的酒店住满了，只好住在偏远的一家，地势比较高，而没有受到海水的袭击，也因此拣了一条命。当时他正在吃早饭，完了就打算去海边body surfing的。生死由命，真是一点不假。

这次海啸估计死亡会超过10万，现实的经济损失不说，但以旅游业为支柱产业的国家，如斯里兰卡，马尔代夫就惨了，不知多长时间才能恢复。受灾的都是穷国家，穷人总是最倒霉的。

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泰国Krabi没可能去了。以"tsunami krabi"作关键字在google中查，可以查到很多关于Krabi，也就是我们大家准备去攀岩的地方，遭到了海啸的破坏，死了不少人。但似乎酒店也有继续营业的。但其实我最受不了的是家人的严重关切与担心。

以下是查到一篇英文报道：
Tsunami kills at least 120 in Thailand
Sun Dec 26, 2004 10:57 AM GMT
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By Viparat Jantraprap

BANKGOK (Reuters) - An unprecedented tsunami tossed cars around like toys on Thailand's southern tourist playground and swept into luxury hotels on Phuket island, killing at least 120 people in the region, officials say.

More than 1,000 were injured and the government ordered the evacuation of the stricken areas, which included the main beaches of Phuket which are popular with Western and Asian tourists and at the height of their season.

Thai authorities sent out helicopters to assess the damage in a region of exotically shaped limestone islands scattered in the turquoise waters of the Andaman Sea popular with snorkellers and recreational divers among Thailand's annual 12 million tourists.

Rescue workers were trying to extract about 70 foreign divers from the famed Emeral Cave, while several dozen were missing around other islands, officials said.

There were some dead and injured at the cave, a major attraction for divers who have to swim underwater to its tiny beach and water illuminated by sunshine pouring through a hole in the top, police said.

Rescuers had no firm casualty numbers immediately, they said.

"I just couldn't believe what was happening before my eyes," Boree Carlsson told Reuters from the hotel where he works, 500 metres (yards) from Phuket's Patong beach.

"As I was standing there, a car actually floated into the lobby and overturned because the current was so strong," the 45-year-old Swede said.

A British tourist said there were several surges of the sea before the main tsunami struck.

"It happened in cycles. There would be a surge and then it would retreat. And then there would be the next surge which was more violent," Paul Ramsbottom told the BBC.

"And then it died for a little bit and then there was just one almighty surge. This was the one which was picking up trucks and motorcycles and throwing them around."

SIX PROVINCES HIT

The tsunami, triggered by an earthquake measured at 8.9 magnitude by the U.S. Geological Survey, which called it the worst tremor for 40 years, also struck the mainland provinces of Phang Nga, Krabi, Satun, Trang and Ranong.

More than 600 tourists and locals were being evacuated by air and sea from the tiny tourist island of Ko Phi Phi, made famous by the 2000 film "The Beach" starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

"There were some people who had minor injuries and they were taken away by helicopter," a government official said.

Stunned Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said the tsunami, reported to measure 5 to 10 metres (16 to 32 feet) high when it hit Phuket's hotel-lined beaches, was unprecedented.

"Nothing like this has ever happened in our country before," he said.

Somsak Sunwansujarit, deputy director general of the Thai disaster department, told Reuters 35 people had been killed on Phuket, 36 in Krabi, 30 in Phang Nga, 8 in Ranong, 6 in Trang and 5 in Satun.

It was not immediately clear how many of the dead were foreigners, but at least one tourist was killed on Phuket and one foreigner was known to be among the dead in Krabi.

Four or five other tourists were believed to have been swept out to sea from Phuket, where the giant waves tossed cars and motorcycles around like toys.

The wave knocked out electricity supplies in Phang Nga, provincial governor Samacha Bhothithavorn told Reuters.

The tsunami, triggered by a quake off Indonesia's northern province of Aceh on Sumatra, killed hundreds of people as far away as Sri Lanka and India as well as Thailand.

自由的风

前几天刚刚看了《国家地理》的海啸节目（那一集叫杀人浪）/地震节目，这下知识立刻用上了。