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I hope no one here has relertives in Kashmir.

How something of this size past me by over the weekend, I do not know.

All the best,

Dr 42%er.


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I`ve been getting updates from "another" DVD type forum & a few posters on there have relatives from the areas affected. From what I can gather there are still major problems getting all the heavy duty equipment to the areas affected due to the terrain. There was one report of a school collapsing and up to 150 kids still underneath the rubble.
My heart goes out to anybody who has family / freinds in the areas concerned, can`t even begin to imagine the emotions some must be going through.
It does appear that the international community in general has been pretty swift in offering disaster management / control resource though. With figures of up to 30,000 dead / missing being bandied around it`s impossible to get your head around the size of this one.

I do have family in Kashmir (Srinagar) but thankfully none of them was affected in any way. They and my parents (who are in Delhi) had a big scare though... ran out of houses and into neighboring gardens while the buildings they live in shook thoroughly!

I am s*** scared of Delhi being hit by this kind of an earthquake - it is more densely packed than London is, and the amount of casualities would be horrible! God Forbid...

Thanks for the concerns though :)

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Maybe it`s me (and because I haven`t been watching the news).

But it seems like the world doesn`t care about this problem. Especially the big nations.

When Boxing Day Tsunami hit, it was huge (well of course, it affected the whole world and over 225,000 poor souls died!)
Hurricans in USA, those wer ehuge aswell (but of course, its America!! Over 1,000 dead - figure shown after weeks!)

And this massive earthquake hits Pakistan/India, meh... who cares. And 30,000 are thought to bedead and numbers still rising... but, no big deal?

Bulls*** (or is it just me?)

R.I.P. to those who have died. :(

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Glad to hear it`s all good for you & yours Timechaser. What a shock for your parents that must have been!

It`s just you AMG. If you haven`t watched the news then you obviously won`t have seen the extensive coverage it`s (rightly) been given.

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And this massive earthquake hits Pakistan/India, meh... who cares. And 30,000 are thought to bedead and numbers still rising... but, no big deal?

It`s been all over the news. It seems like no other story (apart from those poor people in Central America) has been covered on rolling news stations since it happened. It`s especially been emphasised how many British people have relatives over there.

Glad about your family timechaser.

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Can`t help but spot parallels with the US disaster.

The country`s leader has spent so much time and money improving their military status, there`s precious little left for disaster relief. I notice the British rescue teams were out there in a trice..

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Ahh sorry, my mistake. Most of the news was about it today and it was all over the Metro.

General Pervez and the Pakistani Army has frankly done a hell of a lot more to rescue the injured in the first 24 hours since the disaster than a certain Western administration whose major concern was the control of looting.

The scale of this disaster is, like the Tsunami, enormous. The depth of the plate slippage was relatively shallow (reported around six miles rather than the more common 200), so the surface received the full force of the shift. The geography of the areas concerned has meant that the tremors caused ground liquefaction and landslips. These have caused the widespread devastation.

The idea that people might shrug off this disaster frankly disgusts me. We have a large population in this country that has roots in the area affected, and whatever you might think of the history of the UK`s relationship to Pakistan, it has been a long-standing one and we do count the country among our international friends. In view of increasing xenophobia in this country, I think this disaster should be viewed as an opportunity for the UK to demonstrate who our friends are and that we stand by them in times of trouble.

J Mark Oates

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