the great tsunamis
- Scale of size of the 2004 Tsunami
1293 Kamakura 23,000 dead
1498 Melonankai 30,000 dead
1701 Hoei 30,000 dead
1755 Lisbon 60,000
1771 Yaeyama Isle 12,000
1855 Edo 10,000
1868 Arica 70,000
1896 Meiji 27,000
1908 Messina 70,000
1960 Valdiva 6,000
1008 Papua 2,000
2004 Indian Ocean 300,000
Drowning is not so pitiful As the attempt to rise Three times, 'tis said, a sinking man Comes up to face the skies, And then declines forever To that abhorred abode, Where hope and he part company -- For he is grasped of God. The Maker's cordial visage, However good to see, Is shunned, we must admit it, Like an adversity. Emily Dickinson
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