Tsunami Quotations

Being here, it is just impossible to imagine what that was like, when the tsunami hit.

Any time they try to describe the tsunami to us, I am so touched by how high they look in the air, when they explain it with their hands-they go so high.

Why did the earthquake and tsunami occur in Japan? Was it the act of an angry God? No, it was the result of the movement and collision of the earth's tectonic plates - a process driven by the earth's need to regulate its own internal temperature. Without the process that creates earthquake, our planet could not sustain life.

The Millennium Stadium thing was for the Tsunami concert. It was a thing that I think every band in the country would have liked to be a part of at the time that it happened.

If I hear about a tsunami that hit Asia, hundreds of people have lost their lives, and you see it and you hear about it, but you still brush your teeth, still have to go on with your day. But let you get information about one person who you're close to or you're intimate with, it has an almost paralyzing effect.

The economic tsunami has hit all airline employees. With the 2001 terror attacks, airline bankruptcies, pension terminations, loss of pay, changes in work rules - we're all working harder and longer than we used to.

A lot of times we work across multiple platforms. We'll go to Japan working on the tsunami for 'Nightly News' and it'll end up on 'Dateline.'

A massive state and federal effort, the likes of which we've never seen is going to be needed. We can do it for tsunami victims half a world away. We can do it for our own citizens.

Some critics argue that a tsunami of hogwash has already rendered the Web useless. I disagree. We are indeed inundated by online noise pollution, but the problem is soluble.

We remember the victims of the tsunami in Southeast Asia. But millions of vulnerable people in Africa are exposed to natural disasters like droughts, floods and insect infestations as well as armed conflicts. These are silent tsunamis.

What a fantastic outpouring of support during a time when everyone was being asked to provide financial support to hurricane and tsunami victims as well.

I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more

We didn't want to confine our test to just one area and have some unknown problems come up later. But because a tsunami is such a critical event, we wanted to have another test on the coast.

There is a little bit of shell shock that's going on among donors. The tsunami got a huge response. . . . Katrina got a huge response, and I think that people are a little caught off guard by this one.

This proves very clearly that despite the efforts and good wishes of the Thai government in putting its own resources into tsunami relief, Thailand does need a lot of foreign assistance,

When there was the tsunami last year, I thought that was the end of the tourism industry but we recovered very fast, in only six months.

Several hotel guests have complained to me that they have seen no map, no signs, not even a brochure on what to do if a tsunami occurs. People who sleep in the rooms will not hear the warning from sirens if the hotel has not installed a warning system in their rooms.

Nobody finds God in the wake of destruction, ... Very few atheists will look at Katrina or a tsunami and think, 'Oh my, there's a God.'

Giving for the tsunami was literally off the charts. There may be an issue of donor fatigue, it's too early to tell, but it looks like giving for the Pakistan earthquake is more typical of the historical response by U.S. donors to international emergencies.

If the tsunami was coming, it would have come by now,

Had there been better prevention, better early warning, better schools, earthquake-safe buildings - tens of thousands of lives would have been saved both in the Indian Ocean tsunami and in the South Asian earthquake,

Had the people most affected by this been rich and white, I think the outcome would have been much different. Aid was given almost immediately to the victims of the tsunami and a significant amount of money, might I add. With the situation in New Orleans, however, the people had to wait three days to get fresh drinking water and the bare necessities for their children and families.

What we do not want is either a New Orleans situation or a Tsunami situation -- that is you could predict something was going to happen but you don't do anything about it to prepare.

Hawaii is a model -- the (Pacific) Tsunami Warning Center, excellent warning systems for hurricanes, good first-responder services. This whole level of providing assurance is important.

Historically speaking, we have not had any major issues with downtown, ... Speaking with our tsunami scientist folks, a tsunami surge in Honolulu Harbor should not exceed 2 or 3 feet, 4 max. We expect a storm surge model to be similar to that.

Hurricane Katrina hit the heart and soul of Black America, ... This is our Tsunami and we want to take care of those people who now may have family or friends who are going to be in their homes for an extended period of time. We know it's hard and we want to make it a little easier on everybody.

Hurricane Katrina may be second only to the Asian tsunami in the amount of devastation, destruction and human suffering, ... And just as with the tsunami, unprecedented destruction and suffering calls for an outpouring of generous response.

I also encourage our borough's businesses, churches and synagogues to replicate their wonderful efforts after the tsunami to now do what they can to support victims of what has been described as one of the worst natural disasters in our nation's history.

Just like the rest of the international community, the worldwide football family is determined to do everything possible to help the individuals and football associations that have been so severely affected by the terrible tsunami tragedy.

I was delighted that they were selected. It was a unanimous selection of the dinner committee. I think they're very deserving and exhibited tremendous compassion and bravery and initiative for what they did last spring in response to the tsunami disaster in their homeland of Sri Lanka.

I think we left New Zealand the same day as the tsunami hit so we all remember what happened.

Parents seem to want to provide things, especially experiences, for their kids that maybe they didn't have growing up. And since 9/11, SARS, the tsunami and Katrina, it seems people have a feeling of living more in the moment.

Our coastal communities are the living legacy of Oregon's hard-working, innovative and responsible fishing industry. Increased investment in fishery habitat and tsunami warning research promises a boost to the local economy and a safer, more prepared coastline.

Oregon's fishing industry is a critical part of our state's economy, and it will benefit in many ways from this Federal support approved today, ... The dollars included in this bill will also go toward improving Oregon's tsunami readiness, while also giving a boost to our state's cutting-edge oceanic research for the benefit of Oregon and the nation as a whole.

I think it would be a massive undertaking to actually have a full-fledged tsunami warning system that would really be effective in many of these places,

When that tsunami hit, they sent planeloads of supplies and U.S. soldiers. Where's our help?

We could never study an ancient tsunami without having some man-made materials surviving from that time. This temple is our link to that.

We know that there has been some excellent work by governments and nongovernmental organizations in the wake of the tsunami -- the speed and scale of the response meant that lives were saved and many predicted outbreaks of epidemics were contained -- but it is not enough.

We have written to the finance ministers of the G-8 countries. We have asked basically for a total of five years because we are tsunami affected and think it will take that amount of time for rehabilitation.

We have not heard of any tsunami hitting anywhere.

The outpouring of money and aid has not been as full. The graphic nature of the tsunami seemed to really capture people's attention.

When the tsunami came, they had climbed on to a hill. They kept walking, they got lost, and were wandering in the forest, resting, then walking again, ... They traveled from the western side of the island to the eastern side until we saved them.

We were able to maintain 6 percent growth this year despite increase of world oil prices, tsunami effect and many more in the country,

The fact that the tsunami struck a tourist region, and happened right after Christmas, played a role in terms of the generosity. We haven't witnessed that yet with the earthquake. Not at all. We need all the help we can get.

When President Bush needed someone to help with Katrina and tsunami relief, he called on Bill Clinton.

When you had the tsunami in southeast Asia and you saw all that water coming in? Well, that's a good example of what it looked like when you saw all that stuff cut loose.

With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.

We've only played 10 or 12 shows with Matt. Markku left a month and a half, maybe two, ago. We met Matt through Chris, our drummer. They both come from up north (the Bay area), and Matt was playing in a band called Tsunami Bomb. He was great, so we called him in.

Today we remember the victims of the tsunami in South East Asia. But millions of vulnerable people in Africa are exposed to natural disasters like droughts, floods and insect infestations as well as armed conflicts.

We've had a tsunami and a flood. People are more tuned in, I think, than they may have been, The archives are not going away.

There is nothing to worry about at the moment. We are keeping a vigil and there is no rise in the sea to suggest a tsunami is waiting to hit.

What's envisioned for the Indian Ocean is a new tsunami warning system,

Together with CARE, we encourage our fans to join us in this long-term effort to make a serious and lasting impact in the lives of people in Sri Lanka, ... It's critical that we continue to help people overcome their everyday tsunami of poverty and elevate their standard of living beyond where they were when the tsunami struck.

You can imagine the kind of problems you can solve with this, like a tsunami warning device that would scrutinize huge amounts of information from the ocean and then analyze that quite quickly, or for homeland security applications, where you need to scan images of people and match those images against large databases.

This year alone, Karen has used Kristi's Christmas to organize relief efforts for the tsunami and hurricane victims. She gathered up frequent-flyer miles for Katrina victims so they could come up here to get back on their feet.

We're developing a prototype system that will interface tsunami computer simulations with buoy observations and earthquake information to make a forecast at the beach. That will be a step forward.

We think that this technology has a lot of other applications. It can be applied to a whole range of problems that require tight linkage between data and computation -- tsunami warning devices (where you have a lot of data coming in and you have to make quick decisions), homeland security applications, medical imaging systems and so on. So there are a lot of other potential applications for this kind of technology.

Every one thinks it's a tsunami wave. But it's not. It's a constant flow.

The response to Pakistan was quicker and more long lasting, and more supplies (were delivered) than we had done in the tsunami relief effort.

The tragedy of the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 brought into sharp focus the debate about the life saving qualities of healthy reefs and mangroves.

The timing is not right for us to record a song about the future when so many people have lost their lives. We will proceed in a few months, but right now it's about helping those who are dealing with the tsunami disaster and that should honestly be the focus.

The worldwide tsunami research field used to involve maybe 200 people.

The world's response to the tsunami was the best ever. Governments, the private sector, and individuals around the world opened their hearts and their wallets. Private donations for the tsunami eclipsed anything seen before.

The world's response to the tsunami was the best ever.

The ridges focus tsunami waves the way a lens focuses light. They form beams, and if those beams are aimed at coastal communities, the communities can experience high tsunami waves.

Putting a facility packed with radioactive material at Hawai'i's main airport, in the middle of urban Honolulu, and in a tsunami evacuation zone is almost asking for a natural disaster, air crash or terrorist attack. It is outrageous that the NRC has refused to conduct any analysis of the threats to the safety and health of me and my community that Pa'ina Hawaii's irradiator would pose.

A first step in reconstruction is re-drawing maps of the 650 affected villages in the tsunami zone. Teams of Indonesian farmers are working with villagers under guidelines to identify and agree on public and private property lines.

After every large-scale tragedy 9/11, the tsunami people start scamming these fundraisers. We're just being proactive.

Stress, like Tsunami it attacks and soon life lives in ambulance; everything becomes emergency.

On December 26, we didn't have any network that would allow us the confirmation of the presence of the tsunami in the Indian Ocean.

December 26 marks the one year anniversary of the tragic earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 200,000 people in eight countries and took the homes and livelihoods of hundreds of thousands more.

This is not enough. We have never had this kind of logistical nightmare ever. We thought the tsunami was the worst we could get. This is worse.

This is really a lot like the tsunami on a smaller scale, ... Rebuilding is going to take not weeks, not months, not years. Two years? No. Ten years? Maybe.

The U.S. presence, both in security and economic terms, is a daily fact of life as people saw on December 26 (when the U.S. mobilized its military to provide aid to tsunami victims). We have many ways in which we interact with the region,

This crisis might be getting less attention than the tsunami did, but the number of people needing help is even greater. The severity of this crisis means assistance is needed on a huge scale.

This is a national disgrace. FEMA has been here three days, yet there is no command and control. We can send massive amounts of aid to tsunami victims but we can't bail out the city of New Orleans.

Almost one year after the devastating tsunami struck the coast of Sri Lanka, real progress has been achieved: Ninety percent of children are back in school, epidemics have been prevented and transitional shelter has been provided to almost all internally displaced people.

Although we're unlikely to see flooding in UK like that caused by the Boxing Day tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, there is still a significant flood threat here from extreme rainfall and coastal surges.

Although we're unlikely to see flooding in the UK like that caused by the Boxing Day tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, there is still a significant flood threat here from extreme rainfall and coastal surges.

They had their moment in the tsunami coverage, when the BBC and other (established media) opened their websites to them.

This just seemed natural, with the devastation in the South, to do that once again. I don't know that this will be a habit ... but given the gravity of the tsunami and the scope of damage in New Orleans, I think that's why we jumped into the fray and decided to team up.

There's been theories all the way from, 'Has the tsunami ... hurricanes and the effect of environmental factors created mold levels that are unprecedented? Right now, we're trying to deal with the close-in factors of ensuring we don't have a formula problem or a contamination problem in our manufacturing facilities. And nothing indicates that we do.

There was a lot of misinformation that came out after the tsunami hit that the reefs were devastated. We were able to clarify that.

It's just shocking how far off the charts 9/11, the tsunami and the hurricanes are.

Dan, Bee's older brother, is still very sensitive about it, and angry, I guess, about the whole thing. He didn't want any mention, in fact, of the tsunami or Thailand.

It looked like a tsunami with hurricane winds.

It was like a tsunami for which you had warning.

The tsunami was the first time that countries wanted a say in how their dead were returned home. Now there is movement between countries, and at Interpol, to ask what agreements can be reached to avoid confusion the next time.

The tsunami was on a completely different scale,

The tsunami was a really good example of altruistic giving. (Most Americans) didn't know anyone there or had a strong connection; 9/11 had an element of patriotism. For this hurricane, the vast miles of destruction, plus the raw numbers affected, is one of the things driving that.

The tsunami is a critical component in the telling of this story. It's a sensitive storytelling issue.

The tsunami has done colossal damage. At the same time the tsunami has also brought in a wonderful opportunity. It has made the administration much more transparent, much more sensitive to the needs of the society, more responsible.

The tsunami forced our Resort to close, putting hundreds out of work at the moment when they needed income most as they started to rebuild their lives and communities. We couldn't let that happen. Instead, we sent them to our other properties around the world - including properties in the United States, in Dallas, Palm Beach, Jackson Hole, Los Angeles, Maui and Washington. In true Four Seasons fashion, they have become a dynamic part of the teams at these hotels, embracing our guests with their caring service.

The tsunami did provoke an extraordinary response and got us thinking of new measures.

There's very little difference between the two certifications. And a tsunami is a very rare event - anywhere.

Not only was it the most destructive tsunami in recorded history, but there was an unprecedented amount of data obtained.

As you recall, we expected a lot of infectious disease problems within the context of the tsunami and were pleasantly surprised,

At this point, you should go with the majors. Now is the time to stick with your large, name-brand charities. Someone who did a good job with the tsunami effort is probably prepared to do a good job in New Orleans and Mississippi.

The Internet definitely helped tsunami giving. It may make people more comfortable with online giving in the future.

In the last 12 months alone, the public response to tragic events such as the South East Asian earthquake, the Asian tsunami and the attacks on London on 7 July have brought home to many of us the real benefit that can come from the support we provide,