To whoever it was that pointed out how nationalist people were by reporting their country's donations, I think people just don't want their country labeled as stingy or cold or whatnot at a time like this.
I think the gravtiy of the death toll for the tsunami is deeper than people realize. For nature to kill this many people is incredible. When terrorists, filled with bloodlust and hatred, only manage to kill a couple thousand people in a city of 17 million (last I checked), it's totally crazy that nature can wipe out so many. Even our government nuking Japan at the end of WWII will be overshadowed by how many have died in this. Suffice it to say, a wave killing several times the number of people as two nuclear strikes by a superpower is a little more than "the disaster of the decade." The worst disasters in recorded histories numbering more than a million dead from event and aftermath (disease, starvation, etc) can be counted on one hand:
1) 1931, 3 million are killed in China due to flooding (Yellow River)
2) 1959 in China, flooding kills 2 million+
3) 1201, an earthquake kills 1.1 million in Egypt and Syria
4) over the two years spanning 1938 and 1939, a million are killed in floods in China
Assuming the prediction that more than a million will be the final death toll is accurate, this tsunami will rank among the five deadliest disasters in history.