🌄Tsunami Case Study-Indian Ocean

Question 1

How did it happen?

Answer 1

There’s a destructive plate margin along west of Indonesia in the Indian Ocean

• 26th December 2004 there was an earthquake, measuring 9.1 on Richter scale
• the plate moved down and cracked and moved very quickly, causing a lot of water to he displaced
• had waves up to 30m high

Question 2

What countries did it affect?

Answer 2

• was one of the most destructive natural disasters ever

- affected most countries on Indian oCean such as Thailand, Indonesia and India

Question 3

What were the effects?

Answer 3

Was really bad because there was.no early warning system
-around 230 000 people were killed or missing
- whole villages were destroyed
Over 1.7 million lost their homes
- infrastructure was severely damaged
-5-6 million needed emergency food water and supplies
- millions of fishers lost their livelihoods and tourism suffered, massive economic damage
- salt from water meant plants can’t grow in areas and mangroves coral reefs and forests were destroyed

Question 4

Short term responses?

Answer 4

• within days hundreds of millions of pounds had been given by foreign govs
• forging countries sent ships planes and soldiers to help rescue people and begin clearing up

Question 5

Long term responses?

Answer 5

• billions of pounds were given to help re build
• programmes have been set up to re build houses and help get people back to work
• tsunami warning system has been put in place in Indian Ocean
• disaster management plans put in place, volunteers have been trained so that locals know what to do