Massive earthquake in Haiti

:(

7.0

Effing hell

tsunami watch monitoring developments ......

What a nightmare :-(

i don't want to go to bed now and wake up to devestating news


:(

Oh ** :(

I only half caught that just now on newsnight as I was posting on the other Islam4UK thread at the time. But bloody hell, 7, this could be bad :(

goodbye miami

Jesus. :(

7- 7.9 on Richter scale is rated as a Major earthquake

Bye?

Earthquakes on this scale happen around 18 times a year
8 - 8.9 one a year
9 - 9.9 one every twenty years
10+ never been recorded

this one was followed by two others above 5 though pumphol

Shush pumpy! People are getting excited! How DARE you offer a note of realism!

sounds pretty bad, one of the poorest countries in the world, buildings would not take much to come tumbling down :(

Lets hope as usual Sky news have overplayed the seriousness of this.

53-57 spread imo

BBC are reporting it as a catastrophe :-(

ID buy massive at that 57 quote!!!

catastrophe is pretty vague though, they say that on 5 live when england lose a wicket.

lol

^^^Also anything to do with an English footballer's metatarsal.

This is pretty bad, all the building are shacks and built so poorly. The population of 10 million in this small place crammed together. 1000's will of perished in this.

http://www.rastafarispeaks.com/haiti/imgs/basravine.jpg

That is the housing of most the island.

A poorly built shack won't kill you as bad as a poorly built apartment block. Hopefully.

Says presidential palace and apartment blocks have collapsed.

quite true sparky, hence China is probably the worst place to be in the world if an earthquake hits

Presidential palace below, was a nice building too. Shame.

http://www.dougdoebler.com/x/haiti2009/2009%20haiti%20photos%20for%20web%20page/29-haiti-presidential-palace.JPG

do the 3 little pigs live there the one who made is house out of bricks wont be so**y now

sky news no camera on Haiti ?

http://img508.imageshack.us/i/haiticollapse.jpg/

Apparently that is no were near the epicentre taken a few minutes after with building starting to collapse.Cloud of dust over the capital apparently, sky ment to be grey for hours now. Very sad.

yes very sad, a hospital collapsed and it was at nigh asleep one minute then asleep for good, rip all unfortunates

i hate it when people make flippant comments on threads like this.

What about when people make flippant threads about subjects such as these

sorry?

threads loke this, read subjects like this.n

calm down sparky, its not our fault , its the earths crust

hehe

hardly a thread warraning a lol and a he he imo.

warranting*

Okey doke.

see sparky poor mitchells a typing wreck cos of you

you wouldn't be so flippant if you lived there.

my spread looks to have gone for a burton. never get a job with sporting index. that wasnt flippant btw.

True, do any forumites? All sorts of people will die of all sorts of causes over the next 24 hours. A tiny, tiny percentage will have been relatives of forumites. All my sympathy to anyone, if there is anyone here related to the victims of this earthquake, none whatsoever to those revelling in it though.

How is Miami doing?

people screaming dead and injured under rubble. perhaps I'm too sensitive but these things do upset me.

winning 34 - 10 into the 4th quarter

Well people screaming and injured under rubble happens every day, so I sympathise with you, it must be awful.

yorky 13 Jan 00:28
yes very sad, a hospital collapsed and it was at nigh asleep one minute then asleep for good, rip all unfortunates


Not at night

16:53 local time

ffs, you are an arrogant git at times.

I know you're talking to Sparky

I'm a lot worse than arrogant. :^0

half the people in the world wont even know about it, sometimes it must be nice to live in bongo bongo land (non-racist mythical place in the deep wilderness of any continent)

thanks big charlie

i love mitchell downie hes a lovely guy

sparky do you need a ladder to get off that high horse of yours?

perhaps we could meet up on the w*** runn yorky!

run ffs!

err mitchell was that rude, i hope not?

More of a teleporter to be honest yorky

no, short for you know what. Several years ago you scolded me for mentioning where you live, so abbreviated and shortened it.

station at the bottom.

lol at sparky and i get it now, mitchell are you aka cannyman

yes, but he's barred. :-(

Should care more about the 70 year old couple found dead in their flat in Northampton.

MP Sally Keeble said she tried to get social workers to visit them. Shame she never went herself.

Still, they'll have a review now, that will solve it all.

Just like the one after Victorai Climbie solved all the child protection problems, until Baby P got murdered in the same London Borough.

well said big C, i think i agree with nearly all your posts on here

More sense in that BC.

mitchell meet you in redoubt for a pint any time fella,right bed for me tarra everyone

sally keeble has 11 letters in it. oh sorry wrong thread isnt it. can you really imagine an mp visiting "smelly old common people"? she could catch fleas or anything.

ok, I'll make a note Yorky.

pumphol. 12 Jan 23:18
Earthquakes on this scale happen around 18 times a year
8 - 8.9 one a year
9 - 9.9 one every twenty years
10+ never been recorded


sparkmaster. 12 Jan 23:20
Shush pumpy! People are getting excited! How DARE you offer a note of realism!


strongest quake to hit haiti since 1770, and just 10 miles from the capital in one of the poorest countries in the world

anything but a normal occurrence

and no idea why people would be excited about a capital city being destroyed and thousands killed

The country next door on this island, Dominican Republic has many Expat Brits and people on the "Run" investing there.
Apartments for £30-40 Grand, a Second passport for Residents, what a Blow!!!

how was the dominican republic affected?

Both countries Share the same island next to this "Earths Plate" that is Rumbling.

so?

that doesn't answer the question

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8455629.stm

BBC News website readers in the Dominican Republic, which borders Haiti on the island of Hispaniola, said they had also felt the quake.

In the immediate aftermath of the quake, a tsunami watch was put out for Haiti, Cuba and the Bahamas, but this was later lifted.

so because they felt the quake it's a blow?

PORT-AU-PRINCE (BNO NEWS)

i felt a quake on holiday in greece

I expect you would Buy one of those cheap houses in Yorkshire with a coal mine just underneath, waiting to swallow it up.

yeah i guess they were just waiting for the biggest quake since 1770 to hit

how silly of them

poor buggers :(

Lovely island to invest in, apart from its population suffering from malaria,
Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere and has suffered a number of recent disasters, including four hurricanes and storms in 2008 that killed hundreds.