Five Figure Death Toll

The 9.0 quake off the coast of Indonesia managed to even cause casualties in Africa apparently. The scale of destruction and cost in human life is probably far greater than it would have been had the same magnitude of quake hit Indonesia itself instead of being off shore.

24,000 estimated killed, and it's expected to possibly go up to well over 30,000 as new numbers of dead come out of the affected countries throughout the Indian Ocean.

And that's what amazes me about it - not the death toll (that's a close second) - but how widespread the event was "felt": Well over two thousand miles.