Boxing day 2004 tsunami
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- Created on: 27-05-13 12:17
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- Boxing day Tsunami 2004
- Effects
- 2 million people homeless
- 650 000 injured
- Maldives, 2/3 of capital submerged
- 220 000 killed
- India, 4 500 fishing boats destroyed.
- Responses
- Short term
- UK people donated £100 million
- Bodies buried in mass graves
- Aid delivered such as water purification.
- Long term
- New warning system in place by 2006
- Mangroves in Aceh were replanted
- Houses were rebuilt
- This was slow as much debris had to be removed
- Short term
- Causes
- 9.1 earthquake on the richter scale
- 200km long waves, 800 km/h and 25m high
- Effects
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