Boxing day tsunami 2004.
On Boxing Day 2004 a massive earthquake created a tsunami causing devastation around the Indian Ocean resulting in the deaths of more than 300,000 people.
Facts:
- 40,000 to 45,000 more women than men were killed in the tsunami.
- US $ 9.9 billion was originally estimated to be the value of economic, infrastructural and human development losses.
- 141,000 houses were destroyed, which accounts for 47.9 percent of the total damage.
- A 1,200km section of the earth’s crust shifted beneath the Indian ocean and the earthquake released stored energy equivalent to over more than 23,000 Hiroshima bombs.
- Speeds of 500km/h were reached as the tsunamis radiated through the Indian Ocean. In the worst cases, the waves reached over.
- Tsunamis reached 20m in height at landfall in parts of Aceh. In other locations they spread 3 km inland carrying debris and salt water with them. The retreating waters eroded whole shorelines.
- Over 1,000 German and Swedish tourists were killed. Germany and Sweden were the worst affected countries outside the region and lost more citizens than all but the four most affected countries.
Facts:
- 40,000 to 45,000 more women than men were killed in the tsunami.
- US $ 9.9 billion was originally estimated to be the value of economic, infrastructural and human development losses.
- 141,000 houses were destroyed, which accounts for 47.9 percent of the total damage.
- A 1,200km section of the earth’s crust shifted beneath the Indian ocean and the earthquake released stored energy equivalent to over more than 23,000 Hiroshima bombs.
- Speeds of 500km/h were reached as the tsunamis radiated through the Indian Ocean. In the worst cases, the waves reached over.
- Tsunamis reached 20m in height at landfall in parts of Aceh. In other locations they spread 3 km inland carrying debris and salt water with them. The retreating waters eroded whole shorelines.
- Over 1,000 German and Swedish tourists were killed. Germany and Sweden were the worst affected countries outside the region and lost more citizens than all but the four most affected countries.
