Vulnerabiliy

Question 1

How can mangroves reduce maximum tsunami flow?

Answer 1

With 30 trees per 100m2, you can reduce maximum tsunami flow by 90%

Question 2

How did coral reef damage differ between northern sumatra and phuket?

Answer 2

• 30% of reefs were destroyed in northern sumatra because they reefs are shallow
• 5% of reefs were destroyed in phuket because reefs are deep

Question 3

How has human activity reduced mangroves?

Answer 3

Between 1980-2000, 5 most affected countries (indonesia, thailand, sri lanka, india, maldives) have reduced area of mangroves by 26%

Question 4

What is an example of how reducing mangroves makes people more vulnerable to tsunami?

Answer 4

In one sri lankan village surrounded by mangroves, 2 people were killed, in neighbouring village where mangroves had been destroyed 6000 people were killed

Question 5

How many foreigners were as a percent of total deaths in thailand?

Answer 5

52%

Question 6

Why were foreigners out of proportionally at risk?

Answer 6

Many were staying at beach front resorts on holiday during christmas season, most thai people work in land away from impact of tsunami or in fishing boats where tsunami doesn’t impact them, foreigners didn’t speak thai so any warning given out would have not have bee understood

Question 7

How many houses were destroyed in Banda Aceh

Answer 7

141,000

Question 8

Why were so many homes destroyed in Banda Aceh?

Answer 8

They were timber and built to poor building standards

Question 9

How were women more likely to be affected by the tsunami? Why?

Answer 9

40-45,000 more women were killed than men, this is because women are not taught to swim unlike men who are and women were more likely to be at home tending the house while men were out working in the fields or fishing

Question 10

What percent of men and women were killed in affected sri lankan regions?

Answer 10

17.5% of women were killed in affected regions vs 8.2% of men in affectd regions