GCSE Geography AQA Boxing Day/Asian Tsunami Case Study
Mindmap on the Boxing Day Tsunami for geography AQA course
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- Boxing Day Tsunami
- Responses
- Longer Term
- Warnings passed on by radio, TV, email,bells, megaphones and loudspeakers
- Formal warnings sent to other countries
- Restored Mangroves
- Natural barrier to absorb wave power
- Helps to protect coastlines and inland areas from tsunamis
- Early warning system in the Indian Ocean
- Shorter Term
- The UK donated £330mill (not from Government)
- $7bn was donated
- The UN's World Food Programme provided food aid
- Clean water, food, tents and plastic sheeting arrived as aid
- Longer Term
- Causes
- Tsunami speed 835km/hr to 50km/hr by land fall
- Jolt of moving plates displaced water above
- Height at landfall 20m
- Between 9 and 9.3 on the Richter scale
- Countries Involved
- India
- Salt water destroyed arable land
- South-East was worst affected
- Most jetties were destroyed
- Sri Lanka
- 400 000 people lost jobs
- Homes and crops destroyed
- Southern and Eastern coastlines hit
- Thailand
- The dead included 1700 foreigners from 36 countries
- West cosat hit - including islands and tourist resorts
- Indonesia
- Up to 70% of some coastal populations were killed or missing
- Closest inhabited area to the earthquake's epicentre
- India
- Responses
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