EARTHQUAKES. What are earthquakes? It is the release of energy waves called seismic waves in the crust of earth, leads to the creation of a natural disaster.

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EARTHQUAKES

What are earthquakes? It is the release of energy waves called seismic waves in the crust of earth, leads to the creation of a natural disaster called earthquake. The shaking could last seconds or minutes, and there may be several earthquakes over a period ranging from hours to weeks called foreshocks and after shocks, the later decreasing in magnitude with time.

 It is caused by the breaking and shifting of rocks beneath the earth surface.  Or called a sudden slip on a fault.  Faults are the surface where when two blocks of the earth suddenly slip past one another.

The Greatest Earthquakes

Seismograph; the measurement of earthquakes

WHEN?  December 26 th 2004 WHERE?  The west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. (Sumatra–Andaman earthquake)  Indonesia (mainly in Aceh)  Sri Lanka  India (mostly in Tamil Nadu)  Thailand  Maldives  Eastern coast of Africa (mostly by tsunami, especially Somalia)

Signs & Warnings  Earthquakes cannot be predicted by any kinds of tool or humans.  By the time the earthquakes came, the animals behaved unusually which made the minority of the people in Banda Aceh and other regions panicked.  Earthquakes with 8 magnitudes or higher are highly possible to have Tsunami.

 According to geological survey, 227,898 people died across the countries that suffered from the Earthquakes and Tsunami.  This earthquake was the biggest in the Indian Ocean in some 700 years, or since around A.D and also the third most powerful earthquake recorded since 1900, and the confirmed death toll is just under 200,000 due to the ensuing tsunami.

The damaged  Humanitarian: widespread damage of the infrastructure, shortages of food and water, and economic damage.  Economic: damage of industries, fishery, and tourism  Environmental: enormous environmental impact that will affect the region for many years to come. It has been reported that the damage has been inflicted on ecosystems such as mangroves, coral reefs, forests, coastal wetlands, vegetation, sand dunes and rock formations, animal and plant biodiversity and groundwater.

 Across Aceh, thousands of houses were built with foreign aid in what were once wastelands. In Banda Aceh, the provincial capital, new homes surround a 2,600-ton ship pushed a mile inland by the Tsunami. It is now a tourist attraction.  There is a new hospital and airport, and tourist shops selling I- love-Aceh T-shirts.

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