Show - 7- iLiouAmadosaitamodwoismio444014boabaxwa0motilotsimif osvaAiwoolktot fL xiokayamwwiiaeiim4uwwammowindicuitb 1 DISASIEII IN fISIA The Salt lake Tribune Do great earthquakes happen in clusters? 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'' '''' 4 ‘1 ' NW -- 4' ' ' - - 7 low-lyin- g delivering aid to such international disasters People really need to be cam ful" said Behrmann "You could unwittingly donate money to an operation that is fighting the government there" LDS church spokesman Dale Bills said emergency and medical supplies and other materials were being purchased locally to speed relief Church representatives from Salt Lake City and Asia were traveling to the disaster areas to cooperate with government officials and international relief agencies "We are heartbroken to learn that thousands have lost their lives and extend our deepest sympathies to the families whose loved ones have perished in this disaster" said presiding Bishop H David Burton "We encourage all to pray for those who are suffering as well as for those who are providing emergency relief" Patty O'Connor spokeswoman for the Greater Salt Lake Area chapter American Red Cross said her organization and its sister group Red Crescent have sent international teams to assess how local offices can best contribute She said Utahns who want to help can send money to their local Red Cross chapter or via the Internet at Executive Director Carol Bellamy hundreds of thousands of children who managed to survive in the affected coastal communities now "may be in serious jeopardy" she added The UN organization estimates at of the tens of thousands least who died were children and the proportion could be up to half said UNICEF spokesman Alfred Ironside in New York He said communities are suffering a double loss: dead children and orphaned boys and girls "Our major concern is that the kids who survived the tsunami now survive the aftermath Because children are the most vulnerable to disease and lack of proper nutrition and water" Children make up at least half of the population in Asia Many of them work alongside poverty-strickeparents in the fishing or related industries in coastal areas so they were in harm's way when the tidal waves came Many children from the more affluent families would also have been on the beaches for a stroll or for Sunday picnics In Sri Lanka which suffer( u Lne biggest loss of life in the tsunami crowds had come to the beaches to watch the sea after word spread that it was prodlicing waves Thousands of children joined their elders to see the spectacle The waves brought in fish The old and the young collected them Many waited for more one-thir- larger-than-norma- l ' ‘141-- i '''''0 Council on American-Islami- c Relations asked members of the American Muslim community to offer humanitarian assistance and pray for the victims CAIR too is urging people to donate money to international organizations A St George high school student said that while he understands the agencies want fmancial donations he and others also want to collect blankets clothing and hygiene products to send overseas Jordan Street a Snow Canyon High sophomore said he and two friends are sending letters to international relief agencies offering the items "If we receive a response from them we will send a package" he said DC-base- it' t t E4 'y So o' Ir "' t ' w'i i'' 1: 1 k'ettN 0 14 P'41414::1 ‘ : : V' I 1 cal ' — am ''oe - 4 "' i:r '' " i l' 1 e r I -- ' ' t 04Itl a im t I' :171 r '!"-- -- 5 o — ! it vel4 i ': 40Fie''' ' 5" 1 '' ' '''' - le' '' '4'‘'' 4'''ifi V- 4 00 2 r" -- - t "a 't ) ' 1 t 41 ' 2 I 4! - 41 - - v4st-:- ' 7 - - l - ' ' I' ) e j 0 7 4t ' ' i'''4-- : ' i - 04 ' t- 'tf ' r' ' I - - ' - 1 - people r t' --- c- 3000 - '''t '"--- '9 we it ' : d1 uL - Nearly s '3 - Prom 0I JI "'( 7' ''''' st 4---- - ''' - rI tki- - 1))1 Ii t V e f 1 :- 1 111 '" ' 4' 1: 41' 401 ' ' ' i ' t F°4f' ca'?r - q ' - i t$ OT 114: - - - -- - '' - fund-raise- i 4 - ' k ' 8 41 ? tiVI ''' ' "'- -- d tigt ' s of ' ''' : 4 S ' C 11 '''"4 II 1 -- 4'A OIL 't 1 u4444 IrY'' 0 711'-- SP' porn' 0: d ' ': 434'41147i' Isot 1 ' t: 4 7:k - - r4)1'01't ro ' ! V4?-'l- A ‘ : ': : l''' : - r http:wwwredcrossorg The Washington 1v lt14 4 loNI gfr4 - Chat rooms never seemed so vital to Sravan Prathy tool assured the 23 The high-tecyear-olUniversity of Utah graduate student that his family back home in India was safe after the devastating tsunami waves "I found out just three hours afterward that everybody is doing fine" "I'm very Prathy said Monday relieved" His parents and brother were visiting relatives on India's eastern coast when a magnitude 90 earthquake northwest of Indonesia spawned massive waves to strike coastal areas surrounding the Indian Ocean The family was far enough away from area (if southeast India to the hard-hiavoid danger but close enough to witness the tsunamis' reach "My brother said that he telt the tremor and that the seawater cam well into the city" Prathy said "I thought he was joking" Ixaders of the Ufs Indian Student Ass()c iation worked the phones Monday to determine if any of the 450 members or their families suffered losses liy midafternoon their feftrs eased "As far as we can tell none of the students' families are in harm's way right now" said Maul ik Shah the association's adviser Nonetheless the ass( fc int ion plans to to benefit vict ims organize a who lost family members honies or their live! ihoods "It's very unfortunate" Shah said "but we will see what we can (I() to help" Ronnie Lynn d n e k mru Nt nternet reassures ibreign students feet-to-2- Continued from Al s er - lho fun feet tidal waves Then the 15 hit the tropical island of 19 million people —1They got caught and could not run to safety This is the reason why we have so many child victims" said Rienzie Per a police spokesman who said reports from affected police stations indicated children made up about half the victims in Sri Lanka On Monday parents wept over the bodies of their children in streets and hospitals across the island even as some dead children still dangled unclaimed from barbed wire fences The scenes of unimagined grief and mourning were repeated across Asia "Where are my children?" wept 41- Absah as she searched for her year-ol11 missing children in Banda Aceh the Indonesian city closest to Sunday's epicenter "Where are they? Why did this happen to me? I've lost everything" On the day disaster struck Malaysian Rosita Wan recalled watching in son was gulped horror as her by the sea while he swain near the shore at Penang "1 could only watch helplessly while I heard my son screaming for help Then he was underwater and I never saw him again" said a sobbing Rosita 30 Most of the children ages were in their buried as they were found Sunday clothes - without the luxury of a shroud IAtcal officials wanted to quickly finish the burial and the cretnat ion ofadult vict ims so they could turn their attention to helping those tell alive 'There will be a time for crying but that will come later Now the priority is to shelter those who survived' said fisherman Akilan 20 who lost two nephews when waves struck their house Death toll highest among young children - 'f''''itN1 - ' 444 People stand on the beach amongst destroyed boats and debris at Velankanni near Nagappattinam in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Monday have died in India in the tidal wave disaster with Tamil Nadu state accounting for most of the deaths the government announced Monday death toll stood at 130 "We have a long way to go in collecting bodies" In Sri Lanka the government said as many as 200 foreign tourists had been killed In Thailand an official estimated that 20 to 30 percent of those killed had been foreigners spending their Christmas holiday on its beaches The total number of American victims stood at eight The foreign casualties were tiny though compared with the devastation suffered by the mostly poor fishermen farmers and laborers who populate the coasts of the South Asian and Southeast Asian nations The US Geological Survey said the 90 magnitude earthquake on Sunday morning was the fourth largest in a century and the largest in the world since 1964 when an earthquake measuring 92 hit Alaska -- i rei ""'"' -- tVN It MIMISN A NO 'Wt ilit '' 1 41111numiel 1 ' 'ii ' '411 fAzat— - ) -- Nk -- iz-'-- 1 ' ' opos - - 1 t -- ' 4rc"411t4110 c ' ) " - pbI:ttc-ze: 4 — 6- -- - ''' 1 -- :- i - - t !:--0:- 7t - t (110411":000011 '1 4!111' 4''''''' - "'"UP11 IP" 4 -- malt1'4--- 4-- -- 00 1111411 A' f'- 'llia-- 4 : -- 14 liTip---- - '' - 2k2etta4" tt cw ': 7 - :ek g -- - -- gat t 4 ''' -- 1r-- io m 0 ! - ' '" " - 4 “It Mk tJJPV1c41--vititi- 'A t- 1 4 -- -- ' T 41 - 'Altt Sitallb‘7"1"": ' - a -- 4 - :'114NI10-4- Ifill 4 - - '1'1' z1-r 4 ''40'" ' ' -- iZetOcto111i4L '41'1'-'111- 4 -- - - ti -- 1VT--- - 4 -' - ' ' '' - '' - 0 t- - -- - - 6' 'a'-':- it - 11 - I :14144' -4-- -- - - "k 21'''''''"- 011r III --- -- -- 411V1111 7 4- "r"-1' 't ' '4101 - 4- - it A - ""'"1--mb'4i'-n- '' - ? e- 441411-''-'1- ':ii:"'-zt g -:-- ' ' - 4 ) 1 e''' s Utahns gather quake aid but caution is urged BY "" "!"Llt - 4r - - -- '''''' ''" ' a0 N:t-- rt - ' - -- '' " 7"r""5-- -' ' N - : '1"'s-- '''‘14‘ -- -t 7 - toi47- - I - P ' g ' '' ' y ' - 1r - --44 - - ''' - ' ' f 4 ' A - i- ' 1114 'irr - a zelior------ -s- : -''-- - - !it - wAotai- : --- ' flart-k"--'44-- tAtai i'l f t- ':- - : 14 -- - ' ' - Cc b 1 F - 1111: 1)AiJlEtl1httvgarittkliPrrnv man who lost many members of his family including his parents children wife and two siblings cries as people write goodbye notes on coffins for the dead at the hospital that turned into a morgue in the town of Calle southern Sri Lanka on Monday A a i a |