1616570
Indonesian
Tsunami 2004
- Causes
- Located on Destructive Plate Boundry
- Oceanic plate slid
under continental
plate
- Oceanic plate slid
under continental
plate
- 8 o'clock in the morning
- Eurasian plate-rose up 15 metres
- Massive amount of pressure released
- Eurasian plate-rose up 15 metres
- Plates build up pressure
- Subduction zone
- Plates slip
- Rising fault displaces large amount of water
- Causes large tsunamis in all directions
- Travel at up to 500mph
- Travel at up to 500mph
- Causes large tsunamis in all directions
- Rising fault displaces large amount of water
- Subduction zone
- Located on Destructive Plate Boundry
- Immediate Effects
- Earthquake caused land
to shake for 10 minutes
- Four major tsunamis triggered
- Waves up to 30m high
- Waves up to 30m high
- Over a quarter
of a million
people killed
- A third were children
- A third were children
- Energy-power USA for 11 days
- Entire earth's
surface rose
by 1cm
- Train in
Sri
Lanka-killed
1700 people
- Response
- Seismometers introduced
- Evacuation procedures rehearsed
- Food/Resources
sent to worst hit
countries
- Lavatories and sanitation
- Health workers sent
- Deal with diseases
- Deal with diseases
- Infrastructure repaired
- Temporary schools built
- Buildings start
to be repaired
- Temporary schools built
- Seismometers introduced
- Longer Term Effects
- Caused large parts of coast to change shape
- Coastal settlements
- Indonesia,Thailand,Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka
- Many homes destroyed
- Over one million homeless
- Over one million homeless
- Thousands dead
- Many homes destroyed
- Indonesia,Thailand,Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka
- Cholera and Typhoid
spread quickly
- Tourism reduced in area
- Economy and jobs greatly damaged
- Economy and jobs greatly damaged
- Caused large parts of coast to change shape
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