It turns out there were/are a lot of Norwegians in areas hit by the tsunami. 13 Norwegians are confirmed dead, but there is conflicting information about the number of Norwegians still accounted for.
Aftenposten provides a headline today indicating that 446 Norwegians are missing, but this turns out to be a misleading number. There are actually 1376 Norwegians that remain unaccounted for, but of those "only" 446 were known to definitely be staying near the affected beaches. Aftenposten seems to assume that the remaining 930 are not missing, though nobody has heard from them.
There is still much uncertainty around this, but it seems to me that Aftenposten is messing up the numbers. The number of Norwegian casualties may turn out to be higher than 446, and it's wrong to leave the readers with the impression that 446 is the upper end of the range. The death toll from this disaster keeps reaching new, dizzying heights every day, and this may turn out to be one of the biggest natural disasters to befall Norwegians.
Do you have any info on our friend Mette Ramstad who was scheduled to be in the tsunami area?
Posted by: Rolf Norbom | January 06, 2005 at 07:10 PM
There have been studies and some attempt to create tsunami waves as a weapon. In World War II, the army in New Zealand trialled explosives in the area of today's Shakespear Regional Park to create small tsunamis, an attempt which failed.
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