Tsunami
In the early hours of Boxing Day (0058 GMT) an earthquake six miles deep and measuring 9.8 on the richer scale (the largest for forty years) occurred under the Indian Ocean. This caused a huge Tsunami which The earthquake occurred when the Eurasian plate (continental crust) moved against the Australian plate (oceanic crust) (compacting it) on the destructive plate boundary. The Tsunami was travelling 500 mph over water and when it reached land it slowed but increased in height making it more dangerous still. In some places the Tsunami reached as far as one km inland.The tsunami destroyed countryside, housing, hotels and infrastructure but the highest costing was the loss of lies. Over 150 00 are dead and hundreds of thousands are still missing. The secondary effects are no less devastating. Water born diseases such as cholera, dysentery and malaria are spreading fast and there is a lack of clean water as wells are contaminated, there is also a lack in food getting to the survivors causing famine and in the abandoned houses criminals are looting the areas. Another grim effect of the tsunami is the abduction of children by criminal gangs to be used
As harsh as it sounds it was good to see that Blue Peter are keeping their charity of the year the same (though maybe that's just because they had already done the filming). The campaign videos for these sites are so powerful and I was absorbed by them and I have to admit that I did right a e-mail to Tony Blair informing him how many people have needlessly died since he came to power and my white band is the post. Some body will never be found and the real shock and trauma will come after this initial situation of chaos. as slaves, sold for adoption or even, used for sex. In fact I'm also convincing everyone in the school to come along in July to Edinburgh to protest. They were totally unprepared for such n occurrence so had no evacuation system or emergency rations. There were so many stories of heroism but twice as many of tragedy. The government has pledged $715 million in immediate relief and has refused aid from other countries. India is refusing help from outside saying its size and economy make them able to care for thousands of survivors. " In other places, arrows pointed to where corpses were buried under rubble. Distance in time for the wave to travel from the epicentre to the shoreAndaman Islands- 30minsThailand - 90minsSri Lanka - 2hrs Sumatra - 15 minMaldives - 3 hr 30 minutes. This year had been earmarked for Africa but after this disaster our focus has been taken from that. The disaster has really made the world seem small, it's on the other side yet we all have some sort of connection with it (even if it's just the place that 'The Beach' was filmed in was hit).
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