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Indian Ocean Tsunami
- Effects
- 250,000 dead
- 2 million homeless
- 13 countries affected
- Many people had to rebuild industries
- cholera/dsyentery spread
- Income lost from tourism and fishing
- land disputes broke out, land
destoyed by wave and documents
destoyed in tsunami.
- 250,000 dead
- Responses
- International aid sent in to provide water purification tablets, temporary accomodation, medical supplies
- over 5m people relocated into temporary refugee camps
- over 5m people relocated into temporary refugee camps
- Bodies buried in mass graves- stop disease
- Over $7b pounds donated by governments and NGOs
- Homeless people moved to new homes
- tsunami early warning system installed into the indian ocean with expected cost of around $20m
- International aid sent in to provide water purification tablets, temporary accomodation, medical supplies
- Causes
- Triggered by an earthquake
- Magnitude of 9.1
- 160km off Simeilue Island in Sumatra
- Destructive plater margin
- Eurasian Plate
and
Indo-Australian
plate
- Eurasian plate pinged up, displaced water.
- Eurasian Plate
and
Indo-Australian
plate
- 240 km off coast of indonesia
- Magnitude of 9.1
- Triggered by an earthquake
- About
- December 2004
- In open water it was only about 1m high
- When it reached the shore it reached heights of 15m in some places.
- Travelled at around 800km/h
- Reached about 1km inshore in some areas
- Hit Indonesia, 45 mins later hit Thailand
- December 2004
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