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If you think Oz is unselfish at $10m at first place, U.K. donated $2.1m for 68 million ppl...

even in pounds thats pathetic.

glad to see australia has stepped it up to 35m

Yeah I got some family in Malaysia as well, but they are all ok. Hope everything starts getting better, a lot of ppl affected in many diff. countries.

Glad to hear that Nick. I got family in Penang but thankfully they all live in Georgetown and to the east. As an aside, one of my cousins was New York during S11 and survived; I think we're a pretty lucky bunch!

Good to see Australia more than tripled their original amount; still waiting on the tight-fisted US though...

go norway!!

One measure by the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development shows that none of the world's richest countries donated even 1 per cent of its gross national income. The highest, as of April, was Norway, at 0.92 per cent; the lowest was the United States, at 0.14 per cent.

Looks like we're all doing our bit at least- apparently Australians have donated nearly $1million each day since the start of the disaster. CARE Australia got some cash from us but there are lots of worthy charities collecting.

UN is putting together a global pledge of $2.5 billion from 40 countries in the World Bank.

Japan is single biggest contributor!

hmm :D, num of recoverd bodies are officialy up to 123,100, thats around 80,000+ in indonesia and around 28,000+ in Sri Lanka. we donated so much of clothing and money to Sri Lanka (sorry if i am too on to Sri Lanka, but thats where i am from). :). but im glad none of the people back in sri lanka i knw is hurt.

The geological cause of the earthquake is plain: Indonesia has long been plagued by earthquakes and the volcanoes that usually attend such massive fissures in the earth. Giant plates bearing India and Australia have been moving north for millenniums, colliding with the Eurasian landmass near Indonesia. As a result of the immense pressure that was built up, the southern plate is dug like a bulldozer blade under the northern plate.

When that happened, pressure that had accumulated for years or decades was released in an instant. As the earth convulsed, the ocean floor probably fell rapidly in some places and rose elsewhere along a fissure hundreds of miles in length. Areas that collapsed saw tons of water plunge in, causing what is known as a depression wave. Elsewhere, the ocean floor reared up, causing water to be displaced -- an elevation wave. It is likely that both effects fed the tsunamis.

Think of a kid's plastic swimming pool and sliding your hand underneath -- pushing up on the plastic. It would cause a wave to spread throughout the pool. That's what happens on the ocean floor after an earthquake.

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This gives you and good idea of who was hit and how bad.

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This shows the concentration of earthquakes around the world. You can see the outlines of the plates and if you look up in the Indian you can see exaclty where it was.

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And last a map of the plates

Next week we'll learn about why the sky is blue kiddies :P

I am Sri lankan as well and thankfully none of our remaining relatives over there were hurt. My mums cousin had a there house washed away and are living in temporary accomodation - My grandmother is going back there this month and she will be helping with the aid relief, we are sending clothes and other items and giving donations as well.

I dunno if this is a good idea - but over here while I was in Perth we had a "tsunami cruise" where over 300 cars rocked up to and ppl gave donations for a map. It was a great success and they made around 3500 dollars - this was after only 4 days notice!!! I think a donation cruise would be a good idea, the police im sure wudnt mind ppl cruising for charity - but it wud be a great idea!

let us know what u think

Regards

Kim

I was in lanka from the 23rd and just came back yesterday.

For those that know Lanka I was heading to Gaul, which is on the south coast of Lanka on the same day the tidal wave hit but luckly we managed to escape it all as we left 1 hour late and we got stopped half way there as there was water coming onto the coastal road. This was before the 2 main waves hit. We then knew something was weird was going on so we managed to find a inland road out of the coastal area about 30 mins before the 2 waves wiped out the areas we were driving through. We didnt know how bad it was until we got home and watched the news on tv.

So many people in Lanka died as when the water and sea started rising before the 2 waves hit everyone was running to the beach to see what was happening as they had not seen anything like that before. There were people standing and watching the canals and bridges near the coast also filling up before the waves hit, and they would all not have had a chance once the waves came.

It was a scary thing to witness first hand as everyone was running around on the roads and cars buses etc we also driving around everywhere.

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