Saturday, March 12, 2011

Video Tsunami

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  1. ..Television images of the tsunami striking Japan are gripping survivors of a similar disaster that killed more than 230,000 people in 2004.

    Thirty-eight-year-old Maisara Mucharam in Indonesia lost her husband and three daughters in the earlier tsunami.

    "I tried, but couldn't stop watching," she said. "It was exactly the same, except they have this horrible footage, events unfolding right before your eyes."

    The Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami followed a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and smashed into coastal communities in 12 nations. Survivors in Indonesia's hard-hit Aceh province stroked each other's hands and cried as they watched coverage of the latest tsunami in Japan.
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