A random view of a gamelan-playing, food-loving linguist from sunny Southern California.

Monday, December 27, 2004

The 9.0 earthquake and tsunami in Asia Tenggara

A terrible tragedy... Supposedly it was the largest earthquake in the past forty years or so. I'm actually surprised that coastal areas west of the epicenter received the brunt of the fury - also by statements that Sumatra moved 100 km to the southwest.

A mind-numbing, extremely humbling reminder that our sometimes grandiose human selves can easily get our sorry asses kicked by Mother Nature... Please remember that.

1 Comments:

Blogger Ed said...

Fortunately, the tsunami did not reach either Bali or Java. But still, I'm wondering about Oshan's (your field method speaker) family still in Sri Lanka? Have you heard anything?

2:50 PM

 

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