As of this morning, the death toll has more than tripled from 12,000 to 40,000. Monsoon Asia is no stranger to losing thousands of people to floods and earthquakes, but a 9.0 is still quite rare.
I'll have to do some research to see if the US has ever had a calamity with such a death toll.
JFW 12/30/2004: I had no idea it would be that bad. 117,000 dead. Words fail to describe...
Posted by Jeffrey at December 28, 2004 9:02 AM