Video- the 2004 tsunami in Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka. The huge devastation that occurred due to the tsunami has a great impact today. In 2004, many villagers in Thailand and Indonesia who live on low earnings lost all they had in the disaster, as the water took everything away and destroyed it.
Theeffects of a tsunami on a coastline can range from unnoticeable to devastating. The effects of a tsunami depend on the characteristics of the seismic event that generated the tsunami, the distance from its point of origin, its size and, at last, the configuration of the bathymetry (that is the depth of water in oceans) along the coast that the tsunami is approaching.
Thefirst megatsunami to be documented in detail in Indonesia remains one of the largest tsunamis on record. On February 17, 1674, an earthquake struck the Maluku Islands in the Banda Sea.
Inthis handout photo from the U.S. Navy, a view of the landscape a week after a tsunami swept through i seen January 2, 2005 in Sumatra, Indonesia. An ocean front hotel is seen collapsed into the sea close to the pier on December 28, 2004 on Kho Phi Phi, Thailand.The2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 220,000 people were preceded by a few years of slow slip in the Andaman Islands, Mallick says.
Localcitizens were also urged to back away from coastal regions as more tsunamis could occur. Last weekend's deadly tsunami was triggered by a landslide from the volcano that was not accompanied by major seismic tremors, baffling an Indonesian tsunami-warning system that relies on detecting earthquakes.. AFP reporters talked to Indonesians who needed little urging from the government to
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