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Date and Time
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26/12/2004
7:59 am |
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Magnitude
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Magnitude 9 on Richter Scale
600 mile long rupture Tsunami travelled 3,000 miles to Africa |
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Location
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Off the coast of Sumatra
Indo-Australian and Eurasian Plates |
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Effects
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289,601 dead 1.7 million homeless
400,000 people lost jobs in Sri Lanka Indonesia damaged the most Thai coastal resorts badly hit. |
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Short Term Responses
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Clean water, water purification tablets, tents and plastic sheeting arrived in aid.
$7 billion donated worldwide (£330 million from people in UK) UN provided food aid for over 1.3 million people Rescue workers and emergency teams tried to save people. |
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Long Term Responses
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Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System set up
Warnings passed on by multiple platforms. |
