Crisis Management Project

Crisis Management Project

Subject - Tsunami effects and Recommendations by Government to Public

Introduction : Tuesday , December 2004 was the day Tsunami un-leashed un-told suffering and devastation upon Indian Ocean Coastal communities The tragic toll still resonates more than 200 ,000 dead ,2 million people displaced ,370 ,000 homes destroyed or damaged ,some 5 ,000 miles of coastline devastated , and 2 ,000 miles of road ruined

The Tsunami was also unprecedented in the magnitude of the response by donors , the affected governments and their everyday citizens . The homeless received shelter the hungry were

fed , disease was prevented and substantial recovery has been achieved over the past months . Nearly 150 ,000 homes have been built or repaired and 80 ,000 more are being reconstructed . More than 1 ,600 schools and health centers have been rebuilt or are under construction ,tourists are returning to the region in large numbers , and economic growth rates have improved substantially .At he same time , the tasks ahead are significant in scope and cost . Some 200 ,000 homes must still be rebuilt or repaired , and in ASIA in particular the challenges of rehabilitating infrastructure and promoting economic development remain daunting .In light of the work to be done , it is encouraging that so many donors have sustained their focus , thus far translating some 13 million in pledges into roughly 11 billion in firm commitments to critical projects

At nearly 0800 local time on 26 December , a titanic shift of tectonic plates triggered an immense magnitude 9 .0 earthquake in the Indian Ocean , 250 kilometres from the west coast of Sumatra , Indonesia

The quake was much greater than any to rock the planet since 1964 . The consequent tsunami devastated coastlines around the ocean and killed around 226 ,000 people , with millions left destitute . Here , we explain the geophysics behind the disaster . Thirty kilometres beneath the ocean floor , a 1200-kilometre-stretch of the Indian plate slipped 20 metres beneath the Burma plate . This motion suddenly thrust the seafloor up by several metres , shaking the entire 5-kilometre-deep water column above the fault line . The colossal amount of energy released by the earthquake - roughly equivalent to 23 ,000 atomic bombs of the size that devastated Nagasaki - created massive shockwaves and a series of tsunami waves that shot rapidly east and west away from the fault line , traveling faster than a jet plane . The energy released by the earthquake was so great that it even altered the rotation and tilt of the planet . The sudden shift of mass towards the Earth 's centre sped up the Earth 's rotation by a few microseconds and increased the tilt of its rotational axis by 2 .5 centimetres

In the deep ocean , the Tsunamis traveled at speeds of upto 800km /hr and had a height of about 50 centimeters . However , as they approached shallow waters near he coasts , friction with the sea floor slowed the lower part of the waves . This caused the upper part of each wave to pile up to create walls of destruction ' upto...