Tsunami-Sri Lanka
- Created by: aldoman
- Created on: 26-04-13 15:17
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- Coastal flooding-Sri Lanka
- causes
- 30m high waves
- 9.0 on richter scale
- earthquake in the indian ocean
- social
- 230,000 killed or missing
- 1.7 milion homeless
- 400000 lost jobs
- economic
- 25% of hotels in sri lanka closed
- between $8 and $15 billion damages
- soil became infertile
- Enviromental
- 8 million litres of oil spilled.
- mangrove forest become covered in silt
- ecosystem balance destroyed
- human impact
- deforestation of mangrove forest worsened the flood
- coral reef destruction denied breakwater defence-
- causes
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