Tsunami (Banda Aceh, Indian Ocean Tsunami)

Question 1

Where

Answer 1

South East Asia, Northern top of Sumatra in Banda Aceh

Question 2

When

Answer 2

26th December 2004

Question 3

Size

Answer 3

9 on richter

Question 4

Where else did effect

Answer 4

India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Burma, Indonesia, Mayalasia

Question 5

People effect

Answer 5

290000

Question 6

Mangroves

Answer 6

Mangroves were recently removed to make space for boats, these would absorbed a large amount of the wave energy

Question 7

What plates

Answer 7

Burmese and Indian plate meet Indian Plate subduct- Sundra trench

Question 8

How many died

Answer 8

220,000

Question 9

How many injured

Answer 9

650,000

Question 10

How many homeless

Answer 10

2 million

Question 11

Damage

Answer 11

1500 settlements wiped out
Buildings destroyed
Immense devastation
Emergency services couldn’t cope

Question 12

Injured had to

Answer 12

Remain without aid or medication because hospitals destroyed and demand on medication

Question 13

Bodies buried

Answer 13

In mass graves

Question 14

Aid sent

Answer 14

Fresh water
Water purification tablets
Sheeting
Food
Tents 
Medical attendants
Forensic teams

Question 15

Donatioons

Answer 15

UK offered £75 million

Public donations from UK reached £100 million

Question 16

After a year

Answer 16

£372 million donated by British public

Question 17

Disasters Emergency Committee

Answer 17

Spent £180 million

£40 million on rebuilding in Indonesia and Sri Lanka

Question 18

Plans

Answer 18

To spend £190 million on 20,000 houses for the 100,000 homeless people

Question 19

Warning system

Answer 19

Set up in June 2006- Tsunami Warning System

Question 20

Highest wave

Answer 20

Over 25m

Question 21

Effect in India

Answer 21

Large areas of eastern coast swamped by tidal waves

Deaths reported in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Kerela State

Question 22

Effect in Thailand

Answer 22

Western coat of southern Thailand baldy affected, including Phucket and Phi Phi island

Question 23

Effect in Malaysia

Answer 23

People reported to have been swept away from beaches near the northern city of Penang

Question 24

Effect in the Maldives

Answer 24

High waves and flood inundate the islands

Two thirds of low lying capital, Male, under water

Question 25

Effect in Sri Lanka

Answer 25

Wide strech of eastern and southern coastline devastated by massive waves
Districts of Mutur and Trincomalee inundated by waves as high as six metres
Port of the capital, Colombo, shut by flash floods

Question 26

Epicentre of earthquake

Answer 26

10km below seabed, 7.59am local time