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Deadliest Tsunami
The Indian Ocean Tsunami on 2004 was one of the worst that the region has ever experienced over a very long period of time. It reached a magnitude of 9.0 and originated from the Indian Ocean at the North West coast of the Indonesia island of Sumatra. There were waves of up to 15 meters in height and the waves travelled to distances of up to 5,000 kilometers inland with sufficient force to cause damage and kill people (National Geographic News, 2005).
There were a total of eighteen countries that were significantly affected by this tsunami namely: Indonesia, Thailand, India, Sri-Lanka, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Maldives, Reunion Island (French), Seychelles, Madagascar, Mauritius, Somalia, Tanzania, Kenya, Oman, South Africa and Australia (George Pararas, 2005a). As of February 10, 2005 the death toll that had been accurately taken tolled to 226,566 people. This death toll was an underestimation as the demography of this region was poor with several islands like the Nicobar, Maldives and some at the east coast of Africa being a remote that the death toll might have not taken into account these regions hence, the total death toll was estimated to around 300,000 people at the end of it.
The Tsunami had a profound effect on infrastructure with the worst casualty being Indonesia. Apart from 127,774 people being killed, 655,000 people being...
A massive 82% of all the roads in Indonesia were severely damaged (George Pararas, 2005a). In other areas like Banda Aceh (capital city of Northern Sumatra), the city was totally destroyed and thousands of people killed, a neighboring city of Leupung was completely destroyed with only around seven hundred people surviving. Gleebruk, a village to the south west of Banda was totally obliterated, Tounom town was also destroyed leaving only 10,000 people out of 18,000 people. Calang was also destroyed with a paltry 30% surviving the tragedy and all the major infrastructure destroyed. Sameulue island was also grounded 90% of all the buildings, as well as the neighboring island of Nias that had all the infrastructure destroyed.
In Thailand the Indian Ocean tsunami the effect was massive as well with beachfront hotels, houses as well as other infrastructure destroyed with a recorded death of 5,313 people and 4,499 missing people. In India the situation was no better with 16,000 people reported dead and at least 6,000 missing. Some islands in Indian were completely obliterated, with some like Trinket split into two, in Tamil Nadu city the entire coastal villages were destroyed.
Sri-Lanka also suffered…
References
George Pararas, (2005). The Great Earthquake and Tsunami of 26 December 2004 in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean. Retrieved January 16, 2012 from http://www.drgeorgepc.com/Tsunami2004Indonesia.html
George Pararas, 2005b). The Earthquake and Tsunami of July 12, 1993 in the Sea of Japan/East Sea (The Hokkaido Nansei-Oki Earthquake and Tsunami of 1993). Retrieved January 16, 2012 from http://www.drgeorgepc.com/Tsunami1993JAPANOkushiri.html
National Geographic News, (2005). The Deadliest Tsunami in History? Retrieved January 16, 2012 from http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/1227_041226_tsunami.html
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