off the west coast of Sumatra‚ Indonesia. The quake itself is known by the scientific community as the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake.[3][4] The resulting tsunami is given various names‚ including the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami‚ Asian Tsunami‚ Indonesian Tsunami. CAUSES The earthquake was caused by subduction and triggered a series of devastating tsunamis along the coasts of most landmasses bordering the Indian Ocean‚ killing over 230‚000 people in fourteen countries‚ and inundating coastal communities
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Asia Tsunami Introduction 26th of December 2004 saw one of the deadliest natural disasters in history; a tsunami killing more than 270‚000 people in fourteen countries across two continents (The Bolton Council of Mosques 2007-2012). This essay will aim to address the following issues: the nature of the disaster‚ geographic and human factors that contributed to the disaster‚ the preparation involved‚ the recovery process and the limitations of the data. Nature of the South Asia tsunami
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What are tsunamis‚ and how can we decrease deaths among the human population? Tsunamis are created when underwater tectonic plates rub up against each other creating potential energy and then when they shift‚ the potential energy turns into kinetic energy which create a very fast wave. Geoscience helps us to better understand them through many ways. Once a tsunami starts‚ they won’t stop because of all the energy but there are ways to warn people about them through the uses of geoscience. First
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buildings‚ and a layer of mud nearly a foot thick accumulated on the shoreline after the tsunami struck. (After the Tsunamis). After twenty minutes of chaos‚ the lives of the residents as well as the tourists encompassing the Indian Ocean Region including Banda Aceh would be changed forever. The Boxing Day tsunami had numerous detrimental effects such on people‚ property‚ and the environment which ultimately raised tsunami awareness around the Indian Ocean region. There were many harmful effects to the
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Tornadoes and tsunamis both are two natural disasters. Both Tsunamis and tornadoes are formed by nature but‚ they form differently and have different destruction levels. Tornadoes and Tsunamis are formed by natural weather. Not normal weather though‚ they are formed by other nature freaks and non-normal weather. They also create massive destruction in different ways. They are both very interesting topics on the way they form and their destruction. Tornadoes and Tsunamis are both natural disasters
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when plates collide or move away from one another thus they are usually found at the edge of tectonic plates .Volcanoes can also occur in the interior of plates‚ these volcanoes are commonly known hotspots. MOVEMENT OF TECTONIC PLATES 2. Tsunamis can be formed by : Underwater earthquakes Underwater earthquakes are the most common cause of tsunami’s .If an underwater earthquake is large enough‚ significant movements will be made by the ocean floor‚ pushing up the ocean water upward causing
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TSUNAMI Tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water‚ typically an ocean or a large lake. Earthquakes‚ volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions (including detonations of underwater nuclear devices)‚ landslides‚ glacier calving’s meteorite impacts and other disturbances above or below water all have the potential to generate a tsunami. The effects of a tsunami are devastating. They are one of the world’s worst natural disasters that
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THE AFTERMATH OF THE TSUNAMI AND CONSEQUENTIAL POVERTY SUBJECT: LAW AND POVERTY SUBMITTED BY: NISHANT K PRASAD 2010-50 SUBMITTED TO: PROFESSOR AMITADHANDA DEAN(ACADEMICS) NALSAR UNIVERSITY OF LAW‚ HYDERABAD A large number of people to the extent of 220‚000 people were killed in the tsunami which hit South Asia in 2004. There were disastrous consequences of this natural calamity. Loss of millions
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a 9.0 magnitude earthquake that destroyed Japan and surrounding states. The tsunami was formed by an earthquake underwater. Underwater earthquakes happen because of the collision of plates and it causes the fault line to slide‚ when a force pushes the water upwards that causes many tsunamis which gradually increases till they strike land or shallow water. This in this case happened to Japan. Before this major tsunami happened in Japan many people didn’t know that they had a magnitude of 5 or higher
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Creative Destruction and the Aftermath of the Tsunami: Recovery of Southern Sri Lankan Small Business in the Face of Inertia Dr. C. Travis A. Perera Senior Consultant‚ Entrepreneurship‚ Business Development & Operations Management Postgraduate Institute of Management‚ Sri Lanka Telephone number: 94-777 756 109 Fax number: 94-11-2689643 Email: drtravisperera@gmail.com Paper Presented At the 5th International Entrepreneurship Forum held in Cape Town‚ South Africa from September 07-09-2005
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