Sri lanka map tsunami
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Imagery of nearby beaches shows that the edge of the ocean had receded about 150 meters from the shoreline. Over 30 reconnaissance images from the devastated region including Indonesia, the Andaman Islands, Thailand, India and Sri Lanka. Map of JICA Major Projects in Sri Lanka (PDF/127KB). It is possible that the image was acquired in a “trough” between wave crests. (L) Sri Lanka Tsunami Affected Area Recovery and Take-Off Project (L) Tourism Resources Improvement. Some near-shore streets and yards are covered with muddy water. (A Quickbird image taken on Janu(lower), shows the normal ocean conditions.) Water is flowing out of the inundated area and back into the sea, creating turbulence offshore.
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local time-about an hour after the first in the series of waves hit. India, Kenya, Malaysia, Maldives, Seychelles, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Thailand. Aside from Indonesia, the island nation of Sri Lanka likely suffered the most casualties, with the death toll reported at 21,715 on December 29th.ĭigitalGlobe's Quickbird satellite captured an image of the devestation around Kalutara, Sri Lanka (top), on December 26, 2004, at 10:20 a.m. General and thematic maps of Australia including outline maps. Borrero remembers coming upon a colossal freighter loaded with bags of cement that had been flipped on its back with its propeller in the air.On December 26, 2004, tsunamis swept across the Indian ocean, spawned by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake off the coast of Sumatra. The tsunami traveled outward across the Indian Ocean reaching Sri Lanka. It was during these expeditions that scientists confirmed maximum wave heights of more than 131 feet on the northwestern tip of the island. (Map) In 1946, a tsunami was initiated by an earthquake in the Aleutian Islands. Prior to the Indian Ocean Tsunami (IOT), Sri Lanka had not adopted a planned approach towards.
#SRI LANKA MAP TSUNAMI FULL#
Geological Survey expeditions in early 2005 to measure the full extent of the tsunami that struck Sumatra. of the tsunami hazard map and the risk assessment guide. yr B.P., a period for which the sediment record appears continuous. yr B.P., and for six tsunamis between 4064 ± 128 cal. 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and older similar deposits that provide evidence for a tsunami 2417 ± 152 cal.
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“So without a natural warning, without an official warning and with no history of tsunamis, hitting coastlines full of people, that’s the perfect combination to cause a lot of death and destruction.”īoth Borrero and Titov took part in U.S. Sediment cores from Karagan Lagoon in southeastern Sri Lanka retrieved deposits from the A.D. Towards a Safer Sri Lanka: A Road Map for Disaster Risk Management, is a guiding document to. “ came ashore in these places that had no natural warning either, because they were far enough away that they didn’t feel any of the earthquake,” says Borrero. “Almost no injuries, because it’s such a difficult disaster to survive.”Īn earthquake and tsunami of the magnitude that struck in 2004 is so rare that catastrophic tsunamis are all but unknown in the long cultural histories of India and Sri Lanka, explains Jose Borrero, a tsunami researcher with the University of Southern California and director of eCoast, a marine consultancy based in New Zealand. Locals swim for their lives as the 2004 tsunami sends floods through Sri Lanka. It’s completely reversed with tsunamis,” says Titov. “In earthquakes, a certain number of people die but many more are injured. The island has never experienced a devastation of this magnitude, whether natural or man-made, in its recorded history. Twelve of the fourteen coastal districts, were affected, only in the North-Western region the damage was minimal. Once caught in the raging waters, if the currents don’t pull you under, the debris will finish the job. Sri Lanka was devastated by the tsunami along 1200km (68) of its 1770km costal belt.