In this video you can see just how big the wave actually was comapared to boats and humans. Also in this vidoe you can see how scared and deppressed poeple are
The governments of the places affected have bought better developed tsunami detectors and have made better tsunami evacuation plans. However it is still highly unpredictable and deaths can not be avoided. The places that were affected now have warning systems not only for tsunamis but for all diffirent natural disasters.The cause of the tsunami was a mega thrust earthquake which was under water and thats what caused the tsunami the tsunami occured about 250 KM south east of where the tsunami actually hit. The wave was believed to have been 15 meters high.The huge tsunami was a mega thrust tsunami which is an earthquake that cause an earthquake at a subduction zone, this is when one tectonic plate is pushed under another, these type of earthquakes are the most fatal, deadliest and most powerful. The magnitude of the tsunami wa 9.1-9.3 and had the maximum intensity.The mega thrust tsunami happened in 2004 on boxing day yhe 26th of december at 7:58:53am. The tsunami was believed to have been going for 8-10 minutes.A report that came out in early 2005 shows that more than 70% of villages are destroyed and most people in those villages were killed. Around 141,000 houses were destroyed and there was an estimated amount of 10 billion USD worth of things were destroyed.
Natural features such as mountains, roads and many other features were destroyed by the mega thrust tsunami. The surface of the Indian ocean ground was left destroyed. The tsunami was believed to have had the same energy as 23,000 Hiroshima bombs.
The places that were effected in the devestating 2004 boxing day tsunami were big tourist hotspots around the world. Some of the places affected were Thailand, Indonesia, Sri lanka, India, Maldives and Somalia. these places were devistated by a megathrust tsunami that was caused by an earthquake underwater.
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