tsunami (gambar secara detail)

elie · Senior

tsunami (gambar secara detail)

saf_one · Senior

RE: tsunami

jepun363 · Mahaguru

RE: tsunami (gambar secara detail)

elie · Senior

Innalillahi wa inna ilaihi roji'un..Gempa bumi baru saja melanda
provinsi Nangroe Aceh Darussalam, kota yang selama ini kita kenal
dengan sebutan "Serambi Mekah". Gempa dahsyat berkekuatan krg lebih
8,4 skala richter & hembusan kencang badai serta gelombang dahsyat
Tsunami setinggi 5 meter, bahkan 10meter telah meluluhlantakkan
hampir semua harta benda fisik non fisik yang berada di kawasan
tersebut. Bahkan baru saja terjadi kebakaran di sebagian daerah di
kawasan banda Aceh.. Lazimnya 1 pertanda alam mampu dideteksi oleh
peralatan teknologi canggih manusia, namun kali ini memang benar2
tiada siapa dapat mengetahui, tiada siapa dapat menghalang, mengapa?
Allah, Tuhan kita mau menujukkan pada kita bahwa walau secanggih
apapun kehebatan teknologi manusia, ia tidak akan mampu menyaingi
kekuasaanNya. Kuasa Allah Maha Hebatnya, Maha Besarnya…manusia ini,
sehebat apapun ia, tidak akan dapat menyaingi kekuasaan Tuhan. bila
Ia berkehendak tiada apa, siapa dapat menghalang.
Tapi setiap kejadian yang Tuhan jadikan tentulah ia mengandung
hikmah yang besar walau kejadian sebesar debu pun..

Mari kita lihat..
Hal ini merupakan suatu isyarat besar dari Tuhan pada kita
semua. Sekarang manusia sadar atau paling tidak akan belajar untuk
sadar bahwa Allah lah penggenggam alam semesta ini. Semuanya tidak
ada yang dapat lari, bersembunyi, menunda terjadinya kuasa Allah.
Manusia sekarang merasakan ternyata betapa berperanannya Allah dalam
kehidupan manusia, Allah yang menentukan segala2nya. Saat ini bukan
lagi saatnya untuk menuding ini salah siapa, karena apa bencana ini
terjadi. Selama ini Allah sudah jadikan bencana kebakaran,
kecelakaan, banjir, kita masih saja sempat untuk menyalahkan orang
lain. Sekarang jika gempa yang terjadi takkan lah manusia
menyalahkan Tuhan! Malah sebaliknya manusia akan lari menuju Tuhan,
hanya Tuhanlah penyelamat. Ini adalah satu peluang besar yang Allah
anugerahkan pada kita untuk kita muhasabah, koreksi diri. Selama ini
apa yang sudah kita perbuat untuk Allah? Dalam kita beribadah
kepadaNya adakah kita menghayatinya? Adakah kita menempatkan Allah
pada tempat tertinggi dalam hati kita? Patut juga kita bermuhasabah
atas dosa2 dan kesalahan yang selama ini telah kita buat. Mungkin
kita tidak sadar kita telah mengesampingkan Tuhan dan mengutamakan
dunia. Mungkin selama ini kita lihat betapa sudah deritanya rakyat
aceh dengan adanya GAM, mereka pun huru hara, tidak tenang, Maka
Allah turunkanlah bencana ini untuk kemudian mereka dapat menjadi
berkasih sayang satu sama lain, dan hanya mengharap dan bergantung
hanya pada Allah Ta'ala saja, sudah tidak ada lagi tempat untuk
bergantung selain Dia yang kuasa..
Marilah dengan kejadian besar ini kita jadikan untuk mengenang2
kembali dosa2 kita. Mulai menata kembali hati dan fikiran kita,
jadikanlah segala2nya untuk Allah, kita belajar, bekerja jadikan
pemanfaatannya di jalan Allah, bukan semata2 untuk cari nama,
pangkat, jabatan dan keglamouran melainkan untuk mengharapkan redha
Tuhan. Dengan terjadinya hal ini pula kita jadi belajar untuk
bersimpati, merasakan kesusahan orang adalah kesusahan kita,
kesedihan orang adalah kesedihan kita, derita mereka derita kita.
Mereka semua adalah saudara kita, hamba Allah juga..Moga Allah
ampunkan dosa2 mereka yang telah wafat dan yang selamat Allah
berikan ketabahan, kesabaran dan keredhaan dalam menerima ujian ini.
Moga mereka2 semua dan kita disini dapat menjadi hamba Allah yang
pemaaf, tawadlu, rukun setia, berkasih sayang. dan menjadikan Allah
sebagai cinta agung, kunci keselamatan..Moga Allah anugerahkan iman
kepada mereka dan kita smua..Ingatlah Jika suatu daerah telah diisi
dengan kemungkaran, maka azab Tuhan akan terjadi, tak perduli
bagaimanapun. Namun jika suatu daerah ada orang bertaqwa, orang
soleh maka seluruhnya akan merasakan mendapatkan keberkahan, rahmat
mencurah2 dari Allah. Maka kita mau pilih yang mana?kalau begitu
marilah sma2 kita mengusahakan taqwa agar Allah anugrhkan hingga
kita menjadi bangsa yang kuat, yang bekerja sama dan berkasih sayang
atas dasar rasa cinta dan takutkan Tuhan..
Janganlah kita berputus asa dengan apa yang Tuhan telah takdirkan
kepada kita, semuanya sudah Allah gariskan. Allah tidak suka dengan
hamba yang berputus asa, memanglah dosa kita seluas lautan tapi
rahmat Allah seluas dunia ini bahkan lebih besar lagi rahmatNya..
Marilah sama2 kita memohon keampunanNya , moga dengan kejadian ini
Allah anugerahkan rahmatnya yang berupa iman dan taqwa karena itu
lebih besar nilainya di hadapan Tuhan..
Sekian. Moga bisa bermanfaat. Mohon maaf jika ada kesalahn adalah
kelemahan pribadi

Maha Suci Tuhan, mempunyai tentara yang banyak
Ada yang dapat dilihat
Ada juga yang sebaliknya
Ada tentara yang nyata
Ada yang tak dapat dilihat seperti malaikat
Dan juga rijalul ghaibnya
Mereka itu bertaburan dan juga bertebaran
Jika diarah untuk bertindak
Tiada siapa yang dapat menghalang
Gunung-gunung yang gagah adalah tentera Tuhan
Angin petir juga, tentara yang memusnah apa saja
Air adalah tentara yang membawa banjir
Yang merempuh apa yang dihadapannya
Tentara inilah
Yang telah menghapuskan kaum yang ingkar
Di zaman Rasul, Nabi dan juga umat dahulu
Yang telah memusnahkan kaum Lut yang durhaka
Yang telah menenggelamkan Firaun
Dan orangnya yang angkuh
Tentara ini akan bertindak
Apabila kaum membuat angkara
Hendaklah takut Tentara Tuhan
Karena tiada yang dapat menghalang

Am · Senior

Haa .. itu baru tempias la kan ..

Macam-mana agaknya kalau betul-betul dekat ... tentu lagi dashyat kan ...

So .. yang mana "rasa kagum" tu , fikirlah ..

Urm , lagi 1, peta dunia untuk tahun 2005 (dan masa depan) dah tukar , kena buat map baru , sebahagian dari bandar Acheh,dah tenggelam/musnah akibat Tsunami ni ..

Jumlah kematian kat Malaysia kurang dari 100 , kecederaan ramai la , yang hilang pun dalam 20-30 orang (dalam paper) so Alhamdulillah la negara kita tak seteruk negara di area Sri Lanka semua tu ... sana kematian mencatat sampai 12,000 - 13,000 <.>

YlooStyloo · Member

The US Navy is used to "lead" disaster relief ops - a cover for an "unofficial" invasion of South Asia - South East Asia sea-lanes ... - HZ

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO412C.html

Foreknowledge of A Natural Disaster:
Washington was aware that a deadly Tidal Wave was building up in the Indian Ocean

by Michel Chossudovsky

www.globalresearch.ca 29 December 2004

The URL of this article is: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/412A.html

Magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake

More than three hundred years ago, at 9 PM on January 26, 1700 one of the world's largest earthquakes occurred along the west coast of North America. The undersea Cascadia thrust fault ruptured along a 1000 km length, from mid Vancouver Island to northern California in a great earthquake, producing tremendous shaking and a huge tsunami that swept across the Pacific.

These events are recorded in the oral traditions of the First Nations people on Vancouver Island. The tsunami swept across the Pacific also causing destruction along the Pacific coast of Japan. It is the accurate descriptions of the tsunami and the accurate time keeping by the Japanese that allows us to confidently know the size and exact time of this great earthquake.

The recognition of definitive signatures in the geological record tells us the January 26, 1700 event was not a unique event, but has repeated many times at irregular intervals of hundreds of years. Geological evidence indicates that 13 great earthquakes have occurred in the last 6000 years.

Natural Resources Canada http://www.pgc.nrcan.gc.ca/seismo/hist/anniv.press.htm

The US Military and the State Department were given advanced warning. America's Navy base on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean was notified.

Why were fishermen in India, Sri Lanka and Thailand not provided with the same warnings as the US Navy and the US State Department?

Why did the US State Department remain mum on the existence of an impending catastrophe?

With a modern communications system, why did the information not get out? By email, telephone, fax, satellite TV... ?

It could have saved the lives of thousands of people.

The earthquake was a Magnitude 9.0 on the Richter scale, among the highest in recorded history. US authorities had initially recorded 8.0 on the Richter scale.

As confirmed by several reports, US scientists in Hawaii, had advanced knowledge regarding an impending catastrophe, but failed to contact their Asian counterparts.

Charles McCreery of the Pacific Warning Center in Hawaii confirmed that his team tried desperately to get in touch with his counterparts in Asia. According to McCreery, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's center in Honolulu, the team did its utmost to contact the countries. (The NOAA in Hawaii's Report at http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2004/s2357.htm ).

His team contacted the US State Department, which apparently contacted the Asian governments. The Indian government confirms that no such warning was received. (The Hindu, 27 Dec 2004)

Nine (9.0) on the Richter scale: The Director of the Hawaii Warning Center stated that "they did not know" that the earthquake would generate a deadly tidal wave until it had hit Sri Lanka, more than one and a half hours later, at 2.30 GMT. (see Timeline below)

"Not until the deadly wave hit Sri Lanka and the scientists in Honolulu saw news reports of the damage there did they recognize what was happening... 'Then we knew there was something moving across the Indian Ocean,' said Charles McCreery. (quoted in the NYT, 28 Dec 2004 ).

This statement is at odds with the Timeline of the tidal wave disaster. Thailand was hit almost an hour before Sri Lanka and the news reports were already out. Surely, these reports out of Thailand were known to the scientists in Hawaii, not to mention the office of Sec. Colin Powell, well before the tidal wave reached Sri Lanka.

''We wanted to try to do something, but without a plan in place then, it was not an effective way to issue a warning, or to have it acted upon,'' Dr. McCreery said. ''There would have still been some time -- not a lot of time, but some time -- if there was something that could be done in Madagascar, or on the coast of Africa.''

The above statement is also inconsistent.

The tidal wave reached the East African coastline several hours after it reached The Maldives islands. According to news reports, Male, the capital of the Maldives was hit three hours after the earthquake, at approximately 4.00 GMT. By that time everybody around the World knew.

It is worth noting that the US Navy was fully aware of the deadly tidal wave, because the Navy was on the Pacific Warning Center's list of contacts. Moreover, America's strategic Naval base on the island of Diego Garcia had also been notified. Although directly in the path of the tidal wave (see animated chart below), the Diego Garcia military base reported "no damage".

"One of the few places in the Indian Ocean that got the message of the quake was Diego Garcia, a speck of an island with a United States Navy base, because the Pacific warning center's contact list includes the Navy. Finding the appropriate people in Sri Lanka or India was harder." (NYT, 28 Dec 2004, emphasis added)

Now how hard is it to pick up the phone and call Sri Lanka?

According to Charles McCreery, director of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.

"We don't have contacts in our address book for anybody in that part of the world."

Only after the first waves hit Sri Lanka did workers at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre [PTWC] and others in Hawaii start making phone calls to US diplomats in Madagascar and Mauritius in an attempt to head off further disaster.

"We didn't have a contact in place where you could just pick up the phone," Dolores Clark, spokeswoman for the International Tsunami Information Centre in Hawaii said. "We were starting from scratch."

These statement on the surface are inconsistent, since several Indian Ocean Asian countries are in fact members of the Tsunami Warning System.

There are 26 member countries of the International Coordination Group for the Tsunami Warning System , including Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia. All these countries would normally be in the address book of the PTWC, which works in close coordination with its sister organization the ICGTWS , which has its offices in Honolulu at the headquarters of the National Weather Service Pacific Region Headquarters in downtown Honolulu.

The mandate of the ICGTWS is to "assist member states in establishing national warning systems, and makes information available on current technologies for tsunami warning systems."

Australia and Indonesia were notified. The US Congress is to investigate why the US government did not notify all the Indian Ocean nations in the affected area: "Only two countries in the affected region, Indonesia and Australia, received the warning"

"Although Thailand belongs to the international tsunami-warning network, its west coast does not have the system's wave sensors mounted on ocean buoys.

The northern tip of the earthquake fault is located near the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and tsunamis appear to have rushed eastward toward the Thai resort of Phuket.

"They had no tidal gauges and they had no warning," said Waverly Person, a geophysicist at the National Earthquake Information Centre in Golden, Colorado, U.S., which monitors seismic activity worldwide. "There are no buoys in the Indian Ocean and that's where this tsunami occurred."" (Hindu, 27 Dec 2004)

The issue of the Ocean sensors is a Red Herring

The Hawaii Center was not able to warn them because they had no sensors in the Indian Ocean: That argument is a Red Herring.

We are not dealing with information based on Ocean sensors: the emergency warning was transmitted in the immediate wake of the earthquake (based on seismic data). The earthquake took place at 00.58 GMT on the 26th of Dec. The report was transmitted to The State Department and the US Navy following the earthquake.

With modern communications, the information of an impending disaster could have been sent around the World in a matter of minutes, by email, by telephone, by fax, not to mention by live satellite Television.

Coastguards, municipalities, local governments, tourist hotels, etc. could have been warned.

According to Tsunami Society President Prof. Tad Murty of the University of Manitoba:

'there's no reason for a single individual to get killed in a tsunami,' since most areas had anywhere from 25 minutes to four hours before a wave hit. So, once again, because of indifference and corruption thousands of innocent people have died needlessly." (Calgary Sun, 28 Dec 2004)

Key Questions

1. Why were the Indian Ocean countries' governments not informed?

Were there "guidelines" from the US military or the State Department regarding the release of an advanced warning?

According to the statement of the Hawaii based PTWC, advanced warning was released but on a selective basis. Indonesia was already hit, so the warning was in any event redundant and Australia was several thousand miles from the epicentre of the earthquake and was, therefore, under no immediate threat.

2. Did US authorities monitoring seismographic data have knowledge of the earthquake prior to its actual occurrence at 00.57 GMT on the 26th of December?

The question is whether there were indications of abnormal seismic activity prior to 01.00 GMT on the 26th of Dec.

The US Geological Survey confirmed that the earthquake which triggered the tidal wave measured 9.0 on the Richter scale and was the fourth largest quake since 1900. In such cases, one would expect evidence of abnormal seismic activity before the actual occurrence of a major earthquake.

3. Why is the US military Calling the Shots on Humanitarian Relief

Why in the wake of the disaster, is the US military (rather than civilian humanitarian/aid organizations operating under UN auspices) taking a lead role?

The US Pacific Command has been designated to coordinate the channeling of emergency relief? Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Rusty Blackman, commander of the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force based in Okinawa, has been designated to lead the emergency relief program

Lieutenant General Blackman was previously Chief of Staff for Coalition Forces Land Component Command, responsible for leading the Marines into Baghdad during "Operation Iraqi Freedom."

Three "Marine disaster relief assessment teams" under Blackman's command have been sent to Thailand, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.

US military aircraft are conducting observation missions.

In a bitter irony, part of this operation is being coordinated out of America's Naval base in Diego Garcia, which was not struck by the tidal wave. Meanwhile, "USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group, which was in Hong Kong when the earthquake and tsunamis struck, has been diverted to the Gulf of Thailand to support recovery operations" (Press Conference of Pacific Command, http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Dec2004/n12292004_2004122905.html ).

Two Aircraft Carriers have been sent to the region.

Why is it necessary for the US to mobilize so much military equipment? The pattern is unprecedented:

Conway said the Lincoln carrier strike group has 12 helicopters embarked that he said could be "extremely valuable" in recovery missions.

An additional 25 helicopters are aboard USS Bonhomme Richard, headed to the Bay of Bengal. Conway said the expeditionary strike group was in Guam and is forgoing port visits in Guam and Singapore and expects to arrive in the Bay of Bengal by Jan. 7.

Conway said the strike group, with its seven ships, 2,100 Marines and 1,400 sailors aboard, also has four Cobra helicopters that will be instrumented in reconnaissance efforts.

Because fresh water is one of the greatest needs in the region, Fargo has ordered seven ships — each capable of producing 90,000 gallons of fresh water a day — to the region. Conway said five of these ships are pre-positioned in Guam and two will come from Diego Garcia.

A field hospital ship pre-positioned in Guam would also be ordered to the region, depending on findings of the disaster relief assessment teams and need, Conway said. (Ibid)

Why has a senior commander involved in the invasion of Iraq been assigned to lead the US emergency relief program?

The Tsunami Timeline

Sunday 26 December 2004 (GMT)

00.57 GMT: Between 00.57 GMT and 00.59 GMT, an 8.9 magnitude earthquake occurs on the seafloor near Aceh in northern Indonesia. (See http://ioc.unesco.org/itsu/ and other reports)

00.58 GMT: Saturday 25 December, 2.58 pm Hawaii Time (GMT-10) 26 Dec 00.58 GMT. US government's Pacific Tsunami Warning Center registers the earthquake on its seismic instruments. In other words at the time of its occurrence at 00.58 GMT.

shortly after 01.00 GMT: Earthquake hits several cities in Indonesia, creates panic in urban areas in peninsular Malaysia. The news of the earthquakes is reported immediately.

01.3O GMT: Phuket and Coast of Thailand: The tidal wave hits to coastline shortly after 8.30 am, 01.30 GMT

02.30 GMT: Colombo Sri Lanka and Eastern Coast of Sri Lanka, the tidal wave hits the coastal regions close to the capital Colombo, according to report at 8.30 am local time, 02.30 GMT (an hour and a half after the earthqake)

02.45 GMT: India's Eastern Coastline. The tsunami hits India's eastern coast from 6:15 a.m.(2:45 GMT)

04.00 GMT: Male, Maldives: From about 9:00 am (0400 GMT), three hours after the earthquake, the capital, Male, and other parts of the country were flooded by the tsunami. (more than three hours after the earthquake)

11.00 GMT (approximate time according to news dispatches): East Coast of Africa is hit. More than ten hours after the earthquake

The animation below indicates approximate times at which the tidal wave hits the coastal areas of Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, The Maldives.

Click on the image to see an animation (650 KB)

(Animation provided by Kenji Satake, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)