_ _____ __ _____ THE 2004 BOXING DAY TSUNAMI

HOW THE TSUNAMI WAS MADE The red dot or square represents where the tsunami started. HOW THE TSUNAMI WAS MADE The tsunami was made by a underwater earthquake. The earthquake hit north of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

HOW IT START AND WHERE DID IT START The 2004 tsunami was made by a 9.0 under water earthquake. The tsunami started at the west-coast of Indonesia and the tsunami killed nearly 200,000 people in eleven countries and the waves were about 30 metres high. They estimated that it traveled for more than 3,000 miles.

WHERE DID IT START AND WHERE DID IT END The waves started in Sumatra. It travelled from Sumatra to Somalia, Madagascar, Bangladesh, Thailand, Myanmar, India, Malaysia, Western Australia and a few other places.

5 TSUNAMI FACTS This symbol is tsu in Japanese The 2004 boxing day tsunami had the power of 23,000 atomic bombs. More than 200,000 were dead or missing and millions more were homeless because of the tsunami. The wave traveled as much as 3,000 miles to Africa killing people and destroying buildings. The tsunami was the fourth largest tsunami. The wave reached Thailand and Sri Lanka in two hours and Somalia in seven hours. This symbol is tsu in Japanese

SOME MORE INFOMATION The Australian and Eurasian plates made the earthquake which created the tsunami. The tsunami only stopped because the wave did not have a lot of pressure. When the wave or waves go to land they take debris and even people to open sea.

MORE INFOMATION ABOUT THE 2004 TSUNAMI The tsunami hit at the local time of 07:59 or in our time 11:59. At least 100,000 people were killed in just Indonesia. In Sri lanker over 3,500 were killed and hundreds of fishermen have been lost. $12,000,000,000 has been raised after six months.

THE DAMAGE THAT TSUNAMIS CAN MAKE Tsunamis can make a lot of damage to towns. They can kill people by drowning them, move debris and damage vehicles. After a tsunami the city or town effected would be flooded. This is a picture of the coast of Indonesia completely flooded.

SOME PICTURES AFTER THE TSUNAMI A car flipped over Stairs to nowhere A van pushed into a swimming pool An elephant helps by picking up debris SOME PICTURES AFTER THE TSUNAMI A car flipped over

? ? ? ? ? Q U I Z ! 1. Where did the earthquake hit to make the tsunami? 2. How many people died in Indonesia? 3.Which two plates crash into each other? ? ? ? ? ? 4. When did the tsunami start?

ANSWERS! 1. North of the Indonesian Island of Sumatra. 2.At least 100,000 people died. 3. The Australian and the Eurasian plates crashed into each other. 4. The tsunami started at a local time of 07:59 or 11:59 in our time, 26th December, 2004.

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