A satellite photo animation of the tsunami impact on the Banda Aceh shore in Indonesia has been distributed by Digital Globe.
To view it, click here [the animation will open in a new window].
UPDATE:
There’s blogs, and there’s wikis, and here’s the ultimate resource on the Indian Ocean tsunami — a mind-boggling, volunteer-driven, sub-section of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The Phuket Gazette has set up a free Missing Persons Tsunami classified section, which lists nearly 900 pleas for information about missing friends and family members.
BEFORE & AFTER:
Click here for mind-numbing before and after satellite images.
ABC Online is doing a sterling job correlating information from worldwide sources. Click here for the latest news.
Another concise source is NewsBreak.
The Red Cross Appeal contact number is 1800 811 700.
There’s a comprehensive resource available at the tsunami blog.
Another solid link is worldchanging.
Click here for mind-numbing before and after satellite images.
Editor
January 14, 2005 at 01:53
The Tas Govt’s splendid generosity in proposing to send its forestry and fisheries experts to aid the sick and starving victims of the tsunami should not have taken my breath away. But it did.
Aceh has already been ravaged by logging, with deaths from the resulting flash floods and land slips. The first thing they need is Tasmanian-style forestry, with its huge harvests, low employment and wages, a negative return to the local residents, and secret condiments for the fresh water supply.
In addition to their proven environmental sensitivities, the Tassie experts will probably bring a sublime innocence of tropical forests. They should prove very experienced in dealing with local officials eager to flog off the local environment on behalf of local officials.
Having largely cleaned up the local stocks, our fisheries experts will have much to teach locals, who have only been at it a few millenia. Salmon forming skills should translate directly into prawn aquaculture.
You would have to be a complete cynic not to applaud Paul Lennon and his fellow philanthropists for letting their own hospitals and schools go without in order to share the blessings of Tassie capitalism with the even more needy abroad.
John Hayward