![]() ![]() With the initial focus of the international relief and recovery efforts being on humanitarian aspects of the disasters, attention slowly shifted to longer-term rehabilitation and reconstruction, where environmental issues came to the fore. The international response mounted to provide rescue and relief to the affected communities was unprecedented in its volume and scale, with national institutions, UN and international organizations, community groups and NGOs, and a variety of other entities coming together to provide different kinds of aid and services, in the short and long term. The damage from the tsunami was particularly severe as a large percentage of the population, and many key cities and towns, were located within 10 km of the ocean edge. Millions more were displaced or rendered homeless. ![]() While the final death toll will never be known, an estimated 250,000 persons have perished in the tsunami, majority of them women and children. These earthquakes triggered tsunamis that affected Indonesia and neighbouring countries in Asia (including India, Malaysia, Maldives, Sri Lanka, and Thailand) and the coasts of Africa and Middle East (including Somalia and Yemen), causing serious damage to the coastal areas and small islands. A number of aftershocks also occurred, some of magnitude 7.1. June 2015 Īt 0058 GMT on 26 December 2004, a massive earthquake of magnitude 9.0 struck the coastal area off northern Sumatra in Indonesia. #BIG WEATHER EVENTS ON DEC 26 2001 EARTHQUAKE SERIES#The Indian Ocean Tsunami and its Environmental ImpactsĬase Study Series E-023. ![]()
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