Tsunami Of The Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning And Mitigation System

Earthquake registering 7.8 on the Richter scale, lasting 30-60 seconds for the primary quake, followed by aftershocks of varying strengths for approximately 96 hours. Floods and fires persisted in the local area for several weeks afterward.

Since Tsunamis have occurred, there has been a considerable amount of destruction to buildings and structures. People have spend Millions in rebuilding these structures which is not benefiting the economy and this disaster has been continuously been in the news and also has been happening around the world especially in the Ring of Fire. This part of the world is disastrous as many seismic sea waves, earthquakes and volcanoes occur. [1] There are many problems relating to waves that affect people over the world. Some waves being very dangerous while other not as much. Tsunamis (Seismic sea Waves) is a series of very huge waves which are created by underwater disturbances including earthquake, landslide, volcanic eruptions or meteorites. [2]

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.

Scientists have projected possible tsunami scenarios for coastal Oregon and Washington, based on the human impact of the 2004 Sumatra and 2011 Japan tsunami. An earthquake along the Cascadia subduction zone could be as large as the one that hit Japan lastMarch, and the tsunami could reach the coast in 20 minutes (National Geographic Society [NGS], 1996). The tsunami could create a massive catastrophe killing over 10,000 people during the summer since the evacuation centers are sparse and some people have lower access to high ground (NGS, 1996). For instance, a resort town named Ocean Shores lies on a low-ground narrow peninsula and 5,500 people live there year-round (NGS, 1996). According to the National Geography Society (1996), a catastrophic

Know as the second worst tsunami in the world’s history, the Boxing day tsunami took place on December 26, 2004. The tsunami destroyed over 12 different countries and islands, including Sumatra, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and many more countries located by the Indian ocean(Malcolm Moore and Meabh Ritchie). It had continued trekking counties in the Indian Ocean for over two days and left all of which were hit devastated.

For the Humanitarian Project I projected my views of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and Earthquake onto a newsletter. There were multiple sections included on the newsletter, like interviews of the survivors themselves and the effects that the crisis had on the surrounding countries. In my eyes, the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and Earthquake compares to Hurricane Katrina, a category 5 hurricane that hit the United States, in many ways. It’s kind of like us United States citizens can sympathize for the people in Asia because we can compare to what they went through, even though we experienced it after. Asia experienced many conflicts going through this crisis. With a magnitude of 9.3, the quake was the second largest earthquake in history. It killed about

Good morning/Afternoon, Today I will be discussing the reasoning for why people live in disaster prone areas and the detrimental effects it has on society. I will be mainly focussing on Tsunamis and the effects it can cause when in action. The case study I have chosen to assist this task is the, 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami event. Tsunamis can be shown as powerful waves that can rip through anything taking anything down in its path. A tsunami cannot be prevented; however the impact of a tsunami can be mitigated through community preparedness, timely warnings, and effective responses.

She also mentions that not only a tsunami warning system costs a huge amount of money, but also it did not occur to some people to build a warning system for such an unusual occurrence had never seemed like an imperative investment. However, Dr Laura Kong a tsunami expert explains that “It’s an inexact science now” (17). Therefore, it is an unpredictable incidence no one knows exactly when a tsunami will occur since every earthquake doesn’t automatically trigger a tsunami.

Unfortunately, the tsunami had rapidly sped up to the Thailand coast, estimated about 300 miles (482.8km) from the earth quake’s epicenter, and then moved to India and Sri Lanka. Sadly, the waves of the tsunami hit hard and furious as fast as it came to the shoreline. The popular tourist resort of Phuket was badly hit, and within hours, the aftermath of the tsunami killed hundreds of thousands of people, at least as many missing, and such scenery had become unrecognizable throughout the area. One fisherman name Bustami, was in his boat at the time when the quake hit. He describes the horrifying event that he sensed a weird feeling of the ocean around him “That must have been when the earthquake hit,” he remembers, “a sound I’d never heard before and I thought it was the sound of bombs”

The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on 26 December with the epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The shock had a moment magnitude of 9.1–9.3. It was caused by the Indian Plate getting subducted by the Burma Plate and triggered a series of devastating tsunamis along the coasts of most landmasses bordering the Indian Ocean. It killed 230,000–280,000 people in 14 countries, and inundating coastal communities with waves up to 30 metres high. It was one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history. Indonesia was the hardest-hit country, followed by Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand.

In the wake of the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and resulting tsunami, over 4000 scientists, government officials, NGOs and UN representatives met in Kobe, Japan to address one of the most important challenges the world has to face: disaster risk reduction (DRR). The outcome of the conference was the 10 year Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015. Endorsed by 168 countries, the document promotes 3 main goals: the integration of DRR into sustainable development policies and planning, building resilience to hazards and incorporating risk reduction approaches into the implementation of emergency preparedness, response and recovery programmes. In order to achieve these goals, the framework states 5 priorities of action:

The Earthquake that caused the tsunami in Japan was a level 9 magnitude. Earthquakes of magnitudes of 8 or great would have to be a tension snap that occurs along a segment that is around 600 miles in length(Book).This is an extraordinary length. This is about the distance from Dayton Ohio to New York, New York. Can you Imagine a piece of land that massive shifting upwards as much as the Pacific Plate did?

The coastal zones of Sri Lanka were destroyed by a horrible tsunami on 26 December 2004. Most people of Sri Lanka did not experience this natural disaster, except flooding, landslides and cyclones. The effect of tsunami had a large scale on Sri Lanka’s coastal areas, around 70 per cent of total 1400 km long of coastal zones was affected (Ratnasooriya et al., 2007).

Tracing back to through history, mankind has tried to caution upcoming generations of horrific overland deluge events. You can discover this message in the epic tells of the Sumerian King Gilgamesh. It is juxtaposed with Hebrew Bible referencing Noah. The Abrahamic and Babylonian regions have warning stories as well. Other places such as Japan and the Hawaii Islands have passed down forewarnings and changed their life to face this ominous threat. They tell stories of whole towns and villages washed away overnight. The event is called tsunami, which means (Killer Wave) in the Japanese language. Unlike your typical overland downslope flow of water, masses amount of displace water rises overland and then recedes back to the ocean. Plate tectonics, earthquakes, violent storms and landslides are well understood causes of this event; however, the killer wave or Tsunami is so rare that we fail to understand how in depth and devastating it is. The Indonesian tsunami of 2004 video highlighted the true scale and size of a tsunami wave. While deployed overseas in Misawa Japan, I was still skeptical about just how much damage a wave of water could create. Surprisingly, seven years later, the Japanese tsunami of 2011 would give me a crash course in flora, fauna and structural destruction.

“Run for your life!” screams a little Indonesian boy. An eighty-foot tall water wave of pure terror barrels towards him and millions of other people. On December 26, 2004, an enormous tsunami wrecked Indonesia, killed nearly 200,000, and left over half a million more homeless. This is not the only time something like this happens. Tsunamis happen all over the world, and they are common. They vary in size and destruction but are all very similar. Tsunamis are unique natural disasters due to the way they travel and form, as well as their effects of destruction.