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IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO OUR DONORS
If you have made an
online donation to LAcNet using your credit card on or before December
31, 2004 using 2CHECKOUT.COM, please read this important message
carefully.
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HELP THE VICTIMS OF THE TSUNAMI!
Here
is how you can help the victims using your creidt card.
We will send all the donations collected to ease the suffering.
Alternatively, send a check payable to
"Lanka Academic Network" (and marked "Tsunami Victims") to:
C/O Daya Weerakkody,
LAcNet Treasurer
9603 Avenel Road
Silver Spring, MD 20903-2311
USA
All donations are tax-deductible in the USA.
LAcNet
is a 501(c)(3) organization in the USA.
Its US tax Id: 411-69-1170.
As of 4:00 PM EST (US) December 29, 2004, we
have collected over
$71,967.81 as of February 20, 2005
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Thank you! Please do continue to
send the donations, more donations the better.
[Detailed Financials]
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CURRENT DEATH-TOLL
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As of January 4th, 2005, 3:00pm PST, the death-toll in Sri Lanka
is at 47062 and over 155000 in the region (CNN).
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FIRSTHAND ACCOUNTS
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Amateur Videos: A site containing videos shot by cameras on ground.
LAcNet Blog:
You can post your thoughts, wishes and anything you want to say
about the tsunami here.
Thanks to Rasika for creating.
Sanjiva's Blog:
Lists our own Sanjiva Weerawarana's accounts of visiting the affected areas.
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SATELLITE IMAGERY OF THE DEVASTATION
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Before and after the tsunami hitting Kalutara.
Visit
Digital Globe
for a collection of satellite pictures showing the devastation.
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On the morning of the 28th, this house stands alone on the Moratuwa
shoreline. People along this stretch have lost everything.
Photo by Dominic Sansoni
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HOW YOUR DONATIONS ARE BEING SPENT
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We have so far started the following relief efforts in Sri Lanka
(The LAcNet project liaison and the funds allocated thus far are shown
in square brackets):
Releif Effort Through University of Moratuwa:
LAcNet has dispatched a group of volunteers from the University of
Moratuwa, lead by Professor Thishantha Nanayakkara, to the Hambantota
area. LAcNet is also working closely with Sri Lanka Disaster
Management Center and Government Agencies.
Here
is their diary. [US$10000, Trishantha Nanayakkara and Sanath Jayasena]
The North and the East:
A group of students belonging to the Tamil Literary Association of
University of Moratuwa, lead by Chandrasegaram Jeyakumaran and his
fellow batchmates, has started to collect supplies and send them to
affected areas in the north and the east. Their work is listed
here. [US$5500, Sanjiva Weerawarana]
Well/Outhouse Cleaning: LAcNet has started a project to
sanitize, decontaminate and protect wells to control the spread of
disease, starting in Tangalle area. LAcNet will also train
a group of students from University of Colombo to visit villages
frequently and test wells and toilets for coliform bacteria.
See also the side bar for an urgent need. More
details are here. The diary of this project is
here.
[US$6600.00, Thilaka Sumanaweera]
Tsunami Relief
Coordination Center: contains additional information about
coordinating all LacNet relief efforts.
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URGENT NEEDS
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Relief Coordinating Center, Ministry of Health, phone numbers:
+94-11-2693175
+94-11-2696105
What Sri Lanka Needs Now: A write-up summarizing the
global perspective of Sri Lanka's current needs.
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OTHER RELIEF EFFORTS
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Other Efforts:
Contains a list of other relief efforts that also
collect funds and distributes food/medicine etc.
to the affected areas.
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THANK YOU TO THE FOLLOWING GOOD FOLKS:
IDEXX Laboratories has
donated a large quantity of its Colilert test kits for field testing
coliform bacteria in the affected areas in Habantota and Tangalle, Sri Lanka.
LAcNet thanks IDEXX Laboratories for its generous contribution in this
hour of need.
DHL UK has offered to freight
a supply of chlorine tablets from UK to Sri Lanka for free.
Team Tsunami, Connecticut, USA, for donating 500 coliform test kits.
HydraChem Limited, UK,
for donating 20000L capcity water purification tablets.
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LOCATE MISSING LOVED ONES
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findthem.lk:
Together with LK Domain Registry, Dept. of CS&E,
University of Moratuwa and LAcNet have established
this service, where people can register to request information
about missing loved ones.
Beware that the process of searching for your
loved ones might take a few days.
CNN has published the following numbers for locating missing persons:
+94 11 536 1938 (Sri Lankans)
+94 11 243 7061 (Foreigners)
Sri Lanka Tourism
lists foreighn nationals who have been located thus far.
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CENTER FOR NATIONAL OPERATIONS
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The central operations facility,
under the President of Sri Lanka.
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HOSPITAL PHONE NUMBERS
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Hospital Phone Nunmbers:
Contains a list of phone numbers of the hospitals in
affected areas.
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SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION
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[CURRENT
SEISMICITY]
[HOW SHOCK WAVE TRAVELED AROUND THE WORLD]
[BBC Animation]
[SATELLITE MAPS]
[ICG/ITSU]
[TSUNAMI ANIMATION (5Mb Quicktime)]
[WHAT IS A TSUNAMI]
[KRAKATOA ERUPTION]
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HISTORY AND LEGENDS
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ALaskan Tsunami in 1964 destroyed several communities in Alaska, raised the water
level in San Francisco bay by 3.7 feet.
Krakatoa
Eruption near Java, Sumatra, in 1883, created tsunamis reaching Aden, Yemen, in 12 hours. A
1969 movie, Krakatoa, East of Java, chronicled the events.
King Kelanitissa:
Circa 100 B.C., the legend has it that princess Vihara Maha Devi
was put on a canoe by her father, King Kelanitissa, as sacrifice to appease the wrath of
sea-gods and prevent the seas from swallowing villages.
Deep Impact:, a 1998 movie shows a computer graphics
animation of a huge tsunami swallowing New York City.
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