The tsunami contained twice the energy of all the bombs utilized throughout world war ii.
Download Indian Ocean Tsunami 2004 Damage Background. The december 26, 2004 indian ocean tsunami was caused by an earthquake that is thought to have had the energy of 23,000 atomic bombs. Enormous waves struck countries in south asia and east africa with little to no warning, killing since 2004, geologists have uncovered evidence of several massive tsunamis in buried sand layers preserved in sumatran caves.
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The waves of a tsunami have a longer wavelength than typical currents or sea waves. A tsunami is a sequence of waves in an ocean or large lake caused by the displacement of large volumes of water. The tsunami resulted in about $10 billion of property damage and other material losses.
Not long after we started our california work in 2004, the indian ocean earthquake and tsunami struck which changed.
Shoved ashore by the december 2004 indian ocean tsunami, a brightly a sri lankan woman collects personal items as her husband surveys damage to their coastal colombo home a tsunami is a series of ocean waves triggered by a massive displacement of water, in this case, an earthquake. While deadly tsunamis had happened in the indian ocean region (5% of the tsunamis between 1900 and about 1.7 million people were displaced. Perhaps the great majority of the 2004 tsunami's victims could not have been saved by buoys and sirens. Around 30 minutes after the quake, a tsunami struck the northern tip of indonesia.
