Walking the World

Geographically, the airport island is northeast of the capital city island, Male.  The airport was closed for traffic Sunday, Dec…

Thanks for the info. The conditions there are pretty much what we figured. But, you have been experiencing earthquakes for…

Sri Lanka s death toll likely to be in the range of 10,000 to 12,000 latest reports Alladin Hussein in Colombo,…

News reports within Sri Lanka say that that there are 4900 dead in Sri Lanka with an additional 10,500 missing….

I talked to one woman from church this morning, Shanika. On her way home – she lives fairly close to…

Taken from here. Earthquakes near the very top of the magnitude scale are difficult for scientists to measure. For one…

here. quote: Government officials lamented that if Sri Lanka was on the International Coordination Group for the Tsunami Warning System…

There’s Something Strange Happening With the Sea quote: I was taking my morning swim around the island that my businessman-brother…

For now, the trip is still on. But yes, we may return to Canada out of Sri Lanka. Drew has…

One family in the Negombo branch and one family in the Colombo 2 branch are staying at the church overnight….

I’ve heard that flights are now resuming from the Maldives, but earlier, the news reported that all flights from the…

We said it In our lead story of December 21 headlined ‘frequent tremors cause alarm’, we informed readers to be…

Taken from here. by Uditha Kumarasinghe People should be aware that Sri Lanka is no longer safe from earthquakes due…

Taken from here. Alladin Hussein in Colombo, December 27, 2004, 1.06 a.m.. The Katunayake International Airport suspended all flights to…

Taken from here .Sri Lanka failed to take warnings of earthquakes seriously and was ill-prepared for the tidal waves, which…

Taken from here. Gina Wilkinson : Colombo, Sri Lanka : 1430 GMT In the district of Trincomalee on the east…

Taken from here. The sea surges produced by the earthquake off Indonesia have swept 6,000km (3,700 miles) to hit east…

2004/12/27 00:49:26 12.98N 92.45E 6.1 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA REGION 2004/12/27 00:32:13 5.50N 94.46E 6 NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA 2004/12/26 20:50:31 6.31N…

Apparently, a plane enroute to Colombo wound up in Male, Maldives when the whole tidal wave thing happened. News we…

Taken from here. SYDNEY – The massive earthquake that unleashed deadly tidal waves across southeast Asia may have been triggered…

Good evening. For us right now, our time is 10 pm on boxing day, Sunday.  Last night we awoke to…

We have just received a couple text messages asking if we are okay.  We assumed the requests were referring to…

Fahim’s response? "At least some good has come out of this." He’s joking. My question is this . . ….

I heard from my sister. They were so unaffected by this that they didn’t even know that anything had happened,…

Taken from here. COLOMBO – The Indian Ocean tourist paradise of the Maldives was hit by tidal waves that flooded…