Tidal Waves Kill More Than 3,800 in Asia

The following news has been recently published by Yahoo News:

JAKARTA, Indonesia - The world's most powerful earthquake in 40 years triggered massive tidal waves that slammed into villages and seaside resorts across Asia on Sunday, killing more than 3,800 people in six countries.

Tourists, fishermen, homes and cars were swept away by walls of water up to 20 feet high that swept across the Bay of Bengal, unleashed by the 8.9-magnitude earthquake centered off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

In Sri Lanka, 1,000 miles west of the epicenter, more than 2,150 people were killed, the prime minister's office said. Indian officials said as many as 1,130 died along the southern coast. At least 408 died on Sumatra from floods and collapsing buildings. Another 168 were confirmed dead in Thailand, 28 in Malaysia and 2 in Bangladesh.

But officials expected the death toll to rise dramatically, with hundreds reported missing and all communications cut off to Sumatran towns closest to the epicenter. Hundreds of bodies were found on various beaches along India's southern state of Tamil Nadu, and more were expected to be washed in by the sea, officials said.

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Golly! It seems that Mother Nature has gotten increasingly assertive during the last few days and, sad to say, doing her own way of "limpieza de sangre". She's beginning to be more reactionary as to what or how people are utilizing her natural resources. Two days ago, a strong, massive earthquake with 8.2 on the richster scale occured in the southern region between Australia and Antartica. Oh my God, I just hope and pray that The-Day-after-Tomorrow thing won't come so early, and perhaps people can be more ecologically conscious and doing something to save the environment. It will surely depress me if I hear someone say "save as many as you can"...