Tide of Grief Tsunami: The Earth shrugged, and more than 140,000 died Tide of Grief Tsunami: The Earth shrugged, and more than 140,000 died. A story of unimaginable tragedy and heroism NEWSWEEK Jan 10, 2005
Tide of Grief
Tsunami death toll Country Estimated deaths Indonesia 94,081 Sri Lanka 30,196 India 9,479 Thailand 5,187 Somalia 200 Myanmar 90 Maldives 80 Malaysia 68 Tanzania 10 Bangladesh 2 Kenya 1 Estimated total 139,394
Earthquake’s Size, Damage Called Biblical A geology expert explains the significance of Sunday’s deadly quake and resulting tsunamis. Dec. 27, 2004 - As at least nine nations searched for the missing following the world’s biggest earthquake in 40 years, geologist Gianluca Valensise of the Italian Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology spoke with NEWSWEEK’s Eric Pape Monday about the shifts in the earth’s tectonic plates that sparked a 9.0 quake and a 33- to 40-foot-high wave that blanketed thousands of miles of Asian, Indian and African coastlines with death and destruction.
Tsunami National Geographic Videos http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/tsunami-profile.html
The Tsunami Threat Science: Though extremely rare, killer waves can be less predictable, and more destructive, than the quakes that cause them Waves of devastation: An aerial view of India's Marina Beach after the tsunami
Fact File: Flooding and communicable diseases •Water-borne diseases •Vector-borne diseases •Risk posed by corpses The major risk associated with flooding is the contamination of drinking-water facilities. Outbreaks of typhoid fever, cholera, malaria, tuberculosis, bloodborne viruses (such as Hepatitis B/C and HIV), and gastrointestinal infections (such as rotavirus diarrhoea, salmonellosis, E. coli, typhoid/paratyphoid fevers, hepatitis A, shigellosis and cholera).
Interesting websites http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/tsunami/ http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/welcome.html http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/ocean/visualizations/tsunami.html