DISASTERS/ACCIDENTS

INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI

• DATE: DECEMBER 26, 2004 AT 7:59 AM LOCAL TIME;
• LOCATION: INDIA, INDIAN OCEAN, MALDIVES, THAILAND;
• CAUSE: A 8.9 / 9.3 MAGNITUDE- QUAKE .
• THIS TSUNAMI HAD BEEN THE MOST DAMAGING IN THE WORLD HISTORY;
• IT KILLED MORE THAN 225.000 PEOPLE IN ELEVEN COUNTRIES AND
INUNDATING COASTAL COMMUNITIES WITH WAVES UP TO 30 METRES HIGH.
• THE ESTIMATED COST
OF THE DAMAGE WAS
JUST UNDER $10BN
(£6.4BN)
IF CLAUSE
• NEARLY ALL OF THE VICTIMS WERE TAKEN COMPLETELY BY SURPRISE BECAUSE THERE WERE NO TSUNAMI
WARNING SYSTEMS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN TO DETECT TSUNAMIS OR TO WARN THE GENERAL POPULACE
LIVING AROUND THE OCEAN.

• IF THERE HAD BEEN TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEMS TO DETECT TSUNAMIS OR TO WARN THE GENERAL
POPULACE LIVING AROUND THE OCEAN, WOULDN’T HAVE BEEN SO MANY VICTIMS.