Boxing day tsunami, 2004
- Created by: EllaMcNicholl14
- Created on: 04-06-17 21:47
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Key facts: epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, Indo-Australian subducted under Eurasian
-220,000 killed
- cost of damage US $ 9.9 billion
-9.0 on the Richter scale
- Wave hitting the beach was the highest ever recorded – 60ft above the waterline
Impacts: coastal population affected- lack of tsunami warning system in the Indian Ocean- surrounded by LEDC’s who can't afford system for low frequency event
- infrastructure-destruction of power transmission and clean water and sewerage pipes. 82% of roads were either flooded/destroyed, making them impassable.
- High population density and tropical climate- diseases…
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