Boxing Day Tsunami - 2004

L.O: understand the causes, effects and responses to the Boxing day tsunami

Outcomes:Team work & a completed presentation

on the Boxing Day Tsunami

Boxing Day Tsunami Poster• What caused the tsunami – plate boundaries/why?• How do tsunamis form? Include a diagram• Where did it happen? Include a Map• Which countries were effected?• How big was it?• How many people died / were injured?• What effects did it have? (categorise Economic, social,

environmental, primary and secondary)• How did people feel?• How did the countries respond?• Who sent aid?• A and A* answers need to compare how different countries

responded to the tsunami and why some countries might have been better prepared than others

The seismograph recording of the earthquake

Area affected The 9.0 magnitude quake, which was the strongest in the world for at least 40 years, wreaked havoc across the whole region.

Walls of water, tens of metres high, slammed into coastal resorts thousands of miles apart. Surging seas and floods were reported as far away as east Africa.

The waves spread out on their voyage of destruction

Within half an hour the waves had reached Sumatra and Malaysia

and swept ashore in Thailand.

Two hours later they reached Sri Lanka and India.

Within four hours they had crossed the ocean to the east coast of Africa

Their full force is unleashed as they break on to land

Whole villages were flattened as here in Sri Lanka

Scenes which were repeated across the Indian Ocean

Sri Lanka

Phuket, Thailand

Fishing boats, which provide essential food supplies for local people here in India, have been washed ashore

Scenes which were repeated across the Indian Ocean

Sri Lanka

Phuket, Thailand

Low lying areas have been left flooded with seawater which quickly becomes contaminated with sewage and decomposing bodies

Male in the Maldives

Banda Aceh in Sumatra, Indonesia

Millions of people have been left homeless

Cuddalore, south of Madras, India

Penang, Malaysia

V Govindan, 55, fish seller

My house was blown nearly half a kilometre inland when the waves came. I started running with my wife and four children. I returned to the coast in the evening and saw that my home had been washed away. The signboard is still there - The board says: "Live prawns bought here". Now life is so uncertain.

A family survey what is left of their home south of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Valli, 20, fish seller

My family has lived for generations by the sea. Everything almost ended on Sunday as the waves lashed our house. We managed to drag most of our belongings from our huts. Then we ran and ran until we reached the fisheries office, which is now my home.

“Paradise Lost”

Idyllic beach resorts like Galle in Sri Lanka, photographed here in March 2004, have been turned into scenes of horror, devastation and death,

Now Hell on Earth

Beach debris at Phuket, Thailand

Phi Phi Island, Thailand

All that remains of luxury holiday accommodation on Phi Phi Island, Thailand

Devastation on Khao Lak – a once beautiful beach resort in Thailand

Communications have been completely disrupted

Bus station in Galle, Sri Lanka

800 people died in a train derailed by the waves in Sri Lanka – it is the worst train disaster ever recorded.

The human toll is huge – on 30.12.04 it stands at 125,000

Scenes of grief in India, Malaysia and Indonesia

Millions have been injured

In Aceh, Indonesia, so many doctors have been killed that there are few trained medical workers to assist the injured.

Many children – foreign and local – have lost parents

Increasing numbers of homeless people need shelter, food and water

Clean drinking water is required to avoid

the spread of disease

Armed police in Galle, Sri Lanka try to prevent looting

Identifying victims is a grim task

Many who died can only be identified by photographs, fingerprints or DNA tests

Tourists in Phuket make contact with frantic family members

In all affected areas survivors are hungry as food supplies run out

Medicines are needed desperately

The threat of disease increases

The evacuation of foreign tourists from the beach resorts begins

Many are severely traumatised

A British holiday maker arrives home from the Maldives three days after the tsunami

Other survivors, such as these women and children from the Nicobar Islands, leave to a more uncertain future

Relief efforts, which have been slow to start, gather pace as the enormity of the disaster begins to be appreciated

French relief workers from the Medecins Sans Frontieres organisation

German relief workers prepare to depart for Sri Lanka

Indonesian Red Cross workers in Jakarta

South Korean Red Cross assistance

Clean, bottled water supplies are assembled in Penang, Malaysia

Clothes are collected in Sri Lanka

Distribution of food in Madras state, India

In some areas relief supplies are piling up

Disruption of communications means that emergency supplies cannot be distributed efficiently

Coffins await transport to remote areas near Phuket in Thailand

Boxing Day Tsunami Poster• What caused the tsunami?• How do tsunamis form? Include a diagram• Where did it happen? Include a Map• Which countries were effected?• How big was it?• How many people died / were injured?• What effects did it have? (L5+ categorise Economic, social,

environmental, primary and secondary)• How did people feel?• How did the countries respond?• Who sent aid?