2004 INDIAN OCEAN

TSUNAMI
(BOXING DAY TSUNAMI)
JACK MEEKS

NICOLE WHITE
ANA HEIMULI
ANTONE BURBIDGE

INTRO: GEOGRAPHY, INDIAN OCEAN

The Indian Ocean is bound by Africa to the West, Asia to the West,
Asia to the North, Indonesia and Australia to the East, and Arctic
Ocean to the South.

Its absolute location is 20 South and 80 East

It covers roughly 68.5 million square miles

GEOGRAPHY CONT.
Major countries that have
coastline on the Indian Ocean
include:
Australia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka,
India, Thailand, Myanmar,
Somalia, Madagascar.

BOXING DAY

BOXING DAY CONT.

The Earthquake and the tsunami
it caused happened on
December 26, 2004. Also known
as Boxing Day

Boxing Day is the day after

Christmas, and is recognized by
the commonwealth nations.

On this day, workers/employees

receive gifts from their
bosses/employers.

Countries who practice Boxing

Day who were also affected by
the tsunami on this day in 2004
are:
India, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Tanzania,
Mozambique

WHAT HAPPENED
Early in the morning on
Boxing Day, 2004.

9.1 magnitude earthquake.

160 KM off the coast of
mainland Indonesia.

The rupture in the sea floor

displaced massive amounts
of water.

WHAT HAPPENED CONT.

9.1 magnitude earthquake
occurred 30km below sea level,
approx. 19 miles.

From south to north, the sea floor

ruptured at a speed of 2.8
kilometers per second
The rupture is 1,000km long or
approximately 600 miles.

WHAT HAPPENED CONT.

Comparisons:
2004 Indian Ocean rupture: 600 miles
long

Grand Canyon: 277 miles long

Western border of Utah: 560 miles long

WHAT HAPPENED CONT.

At first, the waves were small
and very fast through the ocean.

But as the depth of the water

decreased, and as the waves
approached land, they slowed
down and increased in size to
make the destructive, killer
waves that go several miles
inland

WHO WAS AFFECTED

The Resulting displacement of

water caused tsunamis to hit the
shores of 18 countries.

Approximately 230,000 people died.

Millions left homeless.
At least 9,000 of those deaths were
confirmed as tourists from other
countries.

Most devastated + ~Death toll and

Indonesia: 165,000,

Sri Lanka: 35,000

India: 15,000
Thailand: 7,000

Total monetary damage across all

countries, (IN USD)

About 15 Billion.

OTHER COUNTRIES AFFECTED

Somalia: 78 dead
Kenya: 1 dead
Tanzania: 10 dead
Madagascar: 1 dead
Yemen: 2 dead
Maldives: 82 dead

Burma(Myanmar): 61
Seychelles: 1
Bangladesh: 2
South Africa: 2

RELIEF
The most devastated countries like Thailand, India, Indonesia, and Sri
Lanka each had hundreds of thousands of homeless after the
tsunami.

One of the few coastal areas to evacuate ahead of the tsunami was
on the Indonesian island of Simeulue

States of emergency were declared in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and the

Maldives.

INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI WARNING

SYSTEM
Nearly all of the victims were
taken completely by surprise.

There were no tsunami warning

systems in the Indian Ocean to
detect tsunamis or to warn the
general populace living around
the ocean.

The Pacific Ocean has had a

warning system since the 1940s.
Thailand and Indonesia belong
to the Pacific Ocean Warning
System.

Most of the nations have

seismological units which are
used to measure an earthquake,
but not all earth quakes generate
a Tsunami.

WARNING SYSTEM CONT.

All countries surrounding the Indian Ocean are considered to be thirdworld countries and they didnt have enough funding to build one.

Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System was constructed and it

became operational in 2006 and functioned successfully during the
2012 Indian Ocean earthquakes.

A FEW STATS
The United nations estimated (at the time of occurance) that the relief
operation to be the costliest in human history.

It was reported that roughly 1/3 of the dead were children.

They were least able to resist and fight surging waters and were overwhelmed

Four times more women than men were killed in some regions.
They were tending the house and looking after children, and waiting on the
beach for their fisherman husbands to return.