Jerm provides a link to an animated .gif of the path of the tsunami, which is not this one:
This gives rise to the question of why countries further afield didn't receive sufficient warning of its arrival. "At least two-thirds of the people who died should not have died," a natural disaster expert, Bill McGuire of University College London, told the Guardian. "They could have had an hour or so to get a kilometre or two inland or to reach high ground."
Enda Nasution has compiled the following list for residents and visitors wishing to make donations.
Aid in the form of tents, kitchen utensils, cemetery tools, medicine, baby foods, goods for women, generator set, clothes, blankets, fresh water can be left in local Welfare Offices (Puskesmas) or at Halim Perdanakusuma, the airport in South Jakarta.
The following bank accounts have been opened:
1. Indosiar
BCA
Name: Indosiar
a/c no: 001 - 304 - 0009
2. RCTI
BCA
Name: RCTI
a/c no: 128 - 300 -7000
3. Metro TV
BCA Branch: Kedoya Baru
a/c no: 309 - 3007979
4. Coordinator of Peoples' Welfare, Rep. of Indonesia
Name: I Nyoman Meweh (Head of Welfare Bureau)
BNI
Branch: Harmoni
a/c no: 07 000 311 2717 911
Readers with details of other local appeals are asked to contact Jakartass, Java Jive or Enda Nasution.
An online Candle Memorial for the Aceh victims can be viewed here.
For worldwide details in one place, the Wikipedia Encyclopaedia may be the best source.
