Essay on The Tsunami Disaster

The 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami was an horrific natural disaster. On Sunday 26th of December 2004 at 7.58 am local time there was an earthquake of a massive magnitude 9 on the Richter scale. The earthquake struck off the northern tip of Sumatra in Indonesia. It was the result of the Indio-Australian Plate subducting below the Eurasian Plate. Indonesia was hit by the tsunami first. Forty-five minutes later it reached Thailand.

Three theories of stress, arousal and anxiety that are all linked with a common theme are Individual Zone of Optimal Functioning, Inverted-U theory, and Catastrophe theory. These three are linked by the theme of function of behaviour equals person times situation. These theories can help to explain arousal and anxiety levels of athletes in specific situations and the outcome of their performance, whether they succeed or fail. This essay will focus on the person times situation theme and how athletes need to find the correct balance of arousal and anxiety so they can perform at their best in a given situation. Situations may include the dying seconds of a match where the outcome is in their hands, or it might be a grand final, or any moment

The title of my novel is I Survived The Japanese Tsunami. It is written by Lauren Tarshis. Lauren Tarshis has written multiple I Survived books by now, and this one was definitely one of my favorites. The genre of this novel is nonfiction it was a true story about a boy named Ben and his family. They went to visit Japan where his father had passed 4 months ago and during the visit, the worst strikes.

The intensity of the earthquake was a major factor because its magnitude played a huge role in the damage that the disaster caused. It was reported to have hit a magnitude of 9-0 with the epicenter being located at least 80 miles away. The focus was 18.6 miles lower than the western Pacific. The result was a rapture of the subduction zone and thus led to the Japan Trench being affected. Several foreshocks reached as much as 6.0 and greater effects that ended up acting on the land in the following days and months even after the quake had subsided. The tsunami that accompanied the earthquake originated from a fault along the convergent plate boundary at the section where the Pacific plate joins with the west beneath Japan. The subduction zone was very active seismically at the time of the occurrence of the earthquake. Thus based on my understanding of earthquakes, the March 11 disaster was among the strongest earthquakes ever recorded because of the effects that followed because a portion of the ocean trench immediately went off-shore. In fact, it was later reported that a satellite that was orbiting around the Earth, infrasonics could be detected on the outer edge of the Earth’s atmosphere. The low-frequency waves meant that there were adverse effects that could be felt weeks after the real disaster had hit, hence the reporting that it was the

Throughout this unit, the Science in Practice class has been learning about natural disasters and the impact it has on humans and environment. The natural disaster that will be discussed in this report is the Boxing Day Tsunami, which occurred on the 26th of December, 2004. The tsunami took place in the Indian Ocean. Due to, two tectonics plates, the Indo-Australian plate and the Eurasian plate colliding, causing an underwater earthquake. Due to this awful disaster, people were killed, injured, diagnosed with diseases, homes and businesses were destroyed, the environment damaged.

Tsunamis occur when an earthquake happens in the ocean and the energy goes to the water creating huge waves. Tsunamis are very dangerous they can be so strong that they wash away the city, harm thousands, and cause hundreds of thousands to billions of dollars in damage. “A giant tsunami along the West Coast would wash away coastal towns, destroy U.S. Highway 101 and cause $70 billion in damage. More than 100 bridges would be lost, power lines toppled and coastal towns isolated. Residents would have as few as 15 minutes’ notice to flee to higher ground, and as many as 10,000 would die” (Dangerous tsunami threat off U.S. West Coast). This shows what kind of damage this geo-process can

Emergency disaster situations can be defined in three ways accidental, natural, or wilful. An accidental disaster refers to an event which is totally unexpected such as a house fire started by an electrical fault. Similarly, an illustration of a natural disaster would be the recent earthquakes which took place in Christchurch, NZ between September 2010 and February 2011 that resulted in devastating and far reaching consequences for the country. Foremost in many minds when recollecting a wilful disaster would be the terror attacks of 9.11 in the USA. A disaster of this magnitude has never been experienced during peace time in our lifetime. This essay will examine three different aspects of rescue management procedure where reports detailing disaster and emergency response must be studied to understand and improve our handling of rescue operations.

The Tsunami that took place after the initial quake was caused by a portion of seabed rupturing upwards, and displacing a large portion of the water being displaced. This water traveled at 450 miles, at 8 feet tall, to the Chilean and Peruvian coast. Early viewers of the tsunami later reported waves being up to 10 feet tall. This rupture was believed to be caused by 2 unusually dense pieces of seabed that had been previously undetected by scientists, and consequently caused a large displacement of water. There were also small ruptures of seismic

This generated one of the deadliest tsunamis known to mankind, killing over 230,000 people and leaving over two million people displaced. The epicenter of the earthquake was located in the Indian Ocean, right off the west coast of Sumatra. The tectonic plates beneath the ocean floor had been colliding and building up pressure for hundreds of years, until this day when subduction occurred between the Indian and the Burma plates. The process of subduction displaced billions of tons of water, creating waves that traveled towards the shorelines at hundreds of miles per hour and as high as sixty to one hundred feet. There was absolutely no warning for the people of Southeast Asia, as the tsunami progressed quite rapidly. (National Geographic,

“Haiti is still recovering from the devastating earthquake of 2010.” (UNWTO, 2012) The earthquake that occurred on January 12th of that year was devastating to the people of Haiti. Although it was not the largest earthquake of the year, that honour going to an 8.8 magnitude earthquake near Maule, Chile on February 27th, it was certainly the most destructive. (U.S. Geological Survey, 2015) It has had a lasting impact on Haiti with rebuilding efforts still ongoing in 2016.

A brief moment not long after the earthquake, a tsunami occurred in a small region of the island which was caused by the quake. that day not only did humans past away but many different creatures also died.many of the sea creatures were thrown to the land could not of breathe and many of the land creatures were killed by rolling rocks from the mountains.

It was warm, sunny, and clear. The southern coast of Asia is filled with everything from elegant resorts to poor fishing villages and even some isolated tribes who live amongst themselves with out any outside contact. On this day fishing boats were out on the Indian Ocean and tourists many of who were vacationing from far away as Finland, Sweden and even the United States were out enjoying the water, the beaches, and hotel pools. These local fishermen, tourists, and even the hotel workers had little idea of what was to come. And what was to come was and underwater earthquake and subsequent tsunami unlike anything they had seen or heard of before. As some tourists played in the water and lay on the beaches a few of them noticed that the ocean was acting a bit strange. In some areas the normally beautiful turquoise blue ocean was turning dark. In other areas the water began to recede exposing many fish and ocean material usually not exposed as far from the beach as these were. At first many tourists and locals alike ran out to look at and collect the fish that lay exposed. For some of the local fishermen it was a windfall as all they had to do was go out and fill their baskets and sacks with fish they would normally work hours fishing to catch. They were a few people however that knew something ominous was about to happen. One tourist named Tilly Smith an eleven-year-old

The worlds biggest tsunami was in Alaska in 1958. The earthquake that hit was a 7.8 magnitude and it formed a huge tsunami that went up a mountain 1,722 feet high. This tsunami had a depth of 22 miles. The earthquake was a strike-slip. This tsunami hit Alaska and it affected Alaska and the Lituya Bay. The tsunami hit on July 9, 1958 at 10:15 pm. The earthquake was triggered at the Fairweather fault. The tsunami was 98 feet high (30 meters ). This was a mega tsunami due to the fact that it destroyed 1,722 feet of vegetation. The impact of this tsunami generated a local tsunami that crashed against the southwest shoreline of Gilbert Inlet. This tsunami was so powerful that it swept through the spur of land that separates Gilbert Inlet from

On 26 December 2004, massive Sumatra – Andaman earthquake achieved a magnitude of 9.0 on the Richter scale. Its epicentre was located off the West coast of Northern Sumatra and was responsible for the tsunami.3,4 The Tsunami brought serious damage to people, properties, communities and natural resources not only in Thailand but also in many other countries around the Indian, Bengal and Andaman oceans.5 It was responsible for more than 280,000 deaths in thirteen countries. Thailand recorded 5,395 death (Thais: 1,972; foreign nationals from at least 36 countries: 2,248; and 1,175 of unknown nationality) and 2,817 were missing (Thais: 1,924).3,6,7 The international disaster victim identification (DVI) led by the Royal Thai Police in Phuket, Thailand in response to the Boxing Day tsunami was one of the largest and most complex in DVI history. Referred to as the Thai Tsunami Victim Identification (TTVI) operation, the group comprised a multinational, multiagency, and multidisciplinary team.

A tsunami is a series of huge waves occurring when there is a major disturbance on the ocean floor. Tsunamis often occur due to earthquakes, volcanoes, or landslides (Park 16). Underwater earthquakes may produce waves that travel in all different directions. Some tsunamis lose power and die out under water, others may produce large waves as they approach land. Tsunamis may look like an onrushing tidal wave as they approach land, but do not occur because of tides (Park 6). Their walls of water can move across the open ocean at speeds of up to 560 miles per hour. When the waves hit the coast, they can reach up to 100 feet (Park 5). The tsunami in Japan is believed to have occurred after two of Earth’s tectonic plates collided in the