The Tsunami Terror Assignment PDF
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Running head: THE TSUNAMI TERRORTHE TSUNAMI TERRORName of the studentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
1THE TSUNAMI TERRORThe tsunami that had taken place in the year 2004 was a massacre for the entire world. Itcaused severe damage to the ecosystem, thousands lost their life and many lost their lifestyle. It is oneamong the natural calamities that has occurred in the history of calamities. The term seismic sea wavemeans a series of waves in the water bodies of the earth. The tsunami waves did not resemble thenormal current waves formed under the sea. They were massive and destructive in nature. Thewavelength for Tsunami was relatively longer and did not break at required positions. Thus, creatinghuge waves that damaged the buildings and structures located near the water bodies. It consisted ofseries of waves that lasting from minutes to hours. The Indian Ocean Tsunami was one of thedestructive calamities that occurred in nature. According to scientists, the tsunami was not tide asthey consisted series of waves that were destructive in nature. The discussion will detail the IndianOcean Tsunami that occurred in the year 2004. It will also discuss about the impacts of Tsunami, howlife were damaged, how the nature was damaged. The study will also include the measures that weretaken during that time and few recommendations that must be taken to prevent such disasters tohappen in future again.The Indian Ocean tsunami had taken place in the year 2004, 26th of December. The epicenterof the disaster was at the west coast of Indonesia. The mega thrust earthquake took place when theIndian plate was hit by the Burma plate. It triggered a series of devastating Tsunami along the coastalareas of the Indian Ocean. The calamity caused two, 80,000 deaths and made 14 countries severelyaffected by the disaster. As Indonesia was the centre for this disaster, it was affected the mostfollowed by countries like Thailand, India and Srilanka. As per world record, this was the third largestand powerful earthquake. It has a longer duration in comparison to the other earthquakes. It had lastedfor 8 to 10 minutes and vibrated the blue planet as much as 0.4 inches. The epidemic had expandeduntil Alaska. Scientifically the epidemic is named as the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake. Cause:The cause for such a disaster was the displacement of the plates due to an earthquake. Thedisplacement happened as the earthquake lasted for a longer period, greater than 9. It occurred 30kom
2THE TSUNAMI TERRORbelow the sea level and hence affected the water bodies (Griffin et al.,2013). The earthquake displacedmassive water volumes of water that resulted the Tsunami. The tsunami that occurred in the shallowwater regions forming large destructive waves that damaged the environment and led to thousandsdeath. according to (Brown et al., 2015) the height of the tsunami had reached 24 meters (80 ft) whilecoming ashore, at some points they reached 30 meters (100ft). the stretch of the tsunami was from theeast to west region. Countries like Bangladesh were not affected much as the quake proceeded slowlytowards the north.Damages it caused:The Andaman and Nicobar islands had suffered a lot due to this calamity. Indonesia was thefirst country that was affected. Stretching from the islands of Sumatra to regions of Aceh. Thetsunami occurred after 30 minutes of the earthquake. According to (Srivastava & Shaw,2015)250000people died there and 37063 were missing. The damage was not limited to the death andmissing people. The incident had left 655000 people homeless and shelter less. The maximumdamage took place in the coastal regions as the destruction started from the water bodies. The incidenthas destroyed the coastline, damaging the habitat and ecosystem of those particular regions. In manyregions, the towns and villages were destroyed killing thousands of human, animals. The residue thatwas left after the attack was few parts of iron roofs, few mosques left in the wetlands, few substantialstructures.The Andaman and Nicobar islands was also damaged in this massacre. It caused a severedamage to the islands environment. The Andaman Island was less affected in comparison to the littleAndaman and Nicobar Island. They were damaged at a huge scale. In the southern region ofAndaman, the attack was extended three times the general attack. The coastlines and the low-lyingareas were damaged by flooding. in southern Andaman the attack was a four wave cycle with thefourth cycle to be the most destructive and dangerous in nature. The impact so severe that it threw 4oil tankers from the seashore. The worst affect was at the Katchall islands where 303 were confirmeddead and 4354 were missing.
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