Posted on 12/30/2004 12:21:45 PM PST by smag499
NEW DELHI: After the storm comes the deluge of questions. What if the government is understating the scale of the tragedy? How is India going about the woeful task of counting the dead? In turn, how will this affect relief mobilisation and disbursal of financial aid?
Already there are indications that the number of dead projected by authorities is way below the reality. Senior officials in Delhi are already admitting that the task before them is very complicated.
Red Cross is estimating the toll could shoot up to 1,00,000 dead (from the present 80,000) in Asia once more information comes in from Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The Andamans are situated just north of Sumatra, the epicentre of Sunday's quake that set off the killer waves.
Residents in several affected areas are already claiming that the number of dead projected by authorities is far way below the reality.
Mind-numbing. 0_o
That number is 100,000 not 1,000,000
So many little Islands wiped out......
From article:
"The confusion over the number of dead is worst in the case of slums where a large number of people are also floating population in search of jobs. "
Worst...wording...ever
From what Ive read,the death toll in India(including the Andaman & Nicobar island chain) is around 12,500 to 13,000.Aerial surveys of most islands in the chain have been conducted & damage in many islands has been found to be neglected.
This report honestly sounds disgusting as a number of volunteer organisations & NGOs are heading the relief operations,not the Govt.
That's one way to decrease demand on the supply of critical natural resources.
I find a million to be rather high. But while that number would seem staggering now, it would be paltry if the bad guys ever detonate a nuke in LA or SF or NYC.
That's a difficult question. Since many of the areas affected appear to have been completely wiped out, the 1,000,000 figure is not beyond the range of possibility.
Many areas which were once populated have not even been entered yet. You may remember that, in Florida, some communities were completely shut off from communication for several days. It's much more primitive where this tsunami struck.
We'll never have a truly accurate count, because many bodies will never be found. In addition, records of the inhabitants of many of these regions are incomplete and are now missing, so we may not even know who lived there, or how many.
A million isn't beyond the realm of possibility.
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In proper context, it's one million. The article is referring to number of dead across ASIA, not just India. The KNOWN dead is already over 100,000.
I know it's a typo, but I think it's implying one million.
The guess contained in the title of your thread does not appear in the source article. <
How about that? In the article, its "1,00,000."
The article indicates that the number of dead may go up to 1,00,000. What does that mean? Is there an extra "," or is there a zero missing?
Does on my computer...
"Red Cross is estimating the toll could shoot up to 1,00,000 dead (from the present 80,000)..."
The previous sidebar article speaks of 400,000 dead in Indonesia. It's entirely possible, when all is said and done, this could net over 1,000,000.
My bad - was looking at commas, not zeroes, I guess.
I know what you're saying. But the article also says the current estimates are "way below reality", which doesn't sound like 20,000 either....
I guess it's pointless to speculate. It is what it is. It will probably be weeks before an accurate assessment is made....
I did not know that tsunamis discriminated against people according to income. And if they did, you would think it would be the rich who's homes and playgrounds line the shores, which they would target.
Here's the title of the original article
'Is India underestimating its tsunami dead?'
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/975541.cms
It clearly mentions the number at being 100,000(not a million).It was filed at 11.45am Indian time(That's about last midnight for you folks) & those estimates have been surpassed now.A lot of aerial surveys of the Andamans have been done during this time frame-the death toll there seems to be around 5,500.
In short,the title of this thread has been spiced up.
my God. a million people? Wow.
If you want a better understanding-go to the URL & check the time the report was filed.It was done before noon Indian time.That is late last night for Americans.The details in it correspond to the facts now(toll has crossed 100,000).
100,000 or 1,000,000, it's still a frightful number. It seems only a few days ago the number was at 3,000. Only God will know the final toll.
refer my previous post.The title of this thread has been intentionally or accidently altered.
Gotcha. Thanks for clarifying that.
Actually I think the number is already over 100,000...at least according to Drudge.
I'd like to know why it is that we come up with $35 million in aid but our troops go without necessary supplies?
Not that I ming helping in a crisis, mind you, I do think that any nation that can help should, but I'd still like to know why our trrops are going without.
some of the frightening pictures that are cropping up make this all too possible.
Actually, the article you posted still has a typo in it: "1,00,000"
So it doesn't exactly say 100,000 either. I would hazard to guess that it's easier to have one less zero in there than it is to add a comma where it doesn't belong...
Even 100k is pretty bad. But the news bimbos on the MSM channels in their rush to gush rail to recognize that this no where near the worst natural disasters. In the 1970s alone
the worst was half a million.
500,000 1970 Typhoon / Flood Bangladesh
http://www.geocities.com/Axiom43/disasters.html
OK, Ok, Check my thread: I asked:
So just how high will this go, and how credible will the numbers be?
So is this article saying 100,000 or 1,000,000?
I should have left the 1,000,000 out even though I THINK that is what they meant.
Probably supposed to be 100,000 since a million would be too large a jump.
Based on the Lancets estimate of 100,000 Iraqi civilian deaths based on a sample of 63 confirmed deaths, the final estimate will be whatever number most fits the political objectives of the MSM.
Actually that's not an error.In India,we don't use hundred thousands or million,billion etc.100,000 is written as 1,00,000-this figure is called a lakh,which is a very common Indian unit,so it's use on an Indian website.
So the death toll now(around 125,000) would be written in Indian papers & websites as one lakh twenty five thousand.Hope I've clarified it.
...or increase aid. Prayers for the affected.
It is Saying 1 LAKH which is the Indian unit for a 100,000.
There is no typo error in the article.It was published for Indian readers who are more familiar with hearing about lakhs & not hundred thousands.
Title is not the original, one million does not appear in the article.
Not a bit, but that's ok. :)
Ping to #38.
Hmmm. Well, there have it.
So id advise you to get admins to change the title of the thread.Anyway the article was put out in the morning & is dated.The hundred thousand figure(1 lakh) it predicted has already jumped to 125,000.
More clear. As you pointed it out it was for an Indian audience. Had they sad Lakh, we'd have asked what that is and then been told 100,000. Then we'd know, but that 1,00,000 is confusing.
This is certainly not a laughing matter, but I gotta admit, the wording you caught is jaw-droppingly hilarious.
It might be for you,but for the 350-400 odd million Indians who know or use English,it's perfectly clear!!!
Here is a link of various disasters in history, including natural....
http://www.geocities.com/dtmcbride/hist/disasters-war.html
Puts things in perspective.
War, terror, disasters...next come famine, plague, disease...and Bush doesn't respond quickly enough!
I am gobsmacked by your naivety.
Yep. The rest of the world will just brush over the number anyway.
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