Re: Who to Blame for the Earthquake Victims?

From: Mike (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 12/31/04


Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:14:57 -0800


"Rand Simberg" <simberg.interglobal@org.trash> wrote in message news:423aed28.648718938@newsgroups.bellsouth.net...
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 21:53:24 -0800, in a place far, far away, Alain
> Fournier <alain245@sympatico.ca> made the phosphor on my monitor glow
> in such a way as to indicate that:
>
> >>>The island volcano of Krakatoa in Indonesia exploded with devastating
> >>>fury in 1883.
> >>
> >>
> >> What part of "more than a century" don't you understand? Or are you
> >> math deficient?
> >
> >Seems to me that the Krakatoa fits perfectly well the more
> >than a century part. The part that it doesn't fit is the
> >beginning of the last century part.
>
> Yes, I was confused about who wrote what, but so far no one (with the
> exception of you and Hop, and including me) has made much sense on
> this thread. Sorry 'bout that.

Navia's claim:

> There wasn't a tsunami in the indian ocean for
> more than a century. The last was the Krakatoa
> wave, at the beginning of the last century.

Fact is, there have been several large, deadly tsunamis
in the Indian Ocean since Krakatoa. E.g. one in 1945
killed several hundred people in India.



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