miércoles, 26 de noviembre de 2014

A destructive catastrophe

 What happened: a Tsunami

Where: in Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu (India), Maldives and Somelia

When: Sunday 26 December, 2004

Who: 280,000 people in 14 countries were killed and missing.

Why: because of the bad tectonic activity under the sea. It was a fault below 20 miles and this forced one plate to move upwards and the water was moved in giant waves.

Interview: 
How did it feel to be there?
- Hello I am Tom Johnson. I lived in Thailand since 2000 and I have always been afraid of tsunamis but I never thought it was going to be so strong and damaging. Even the palm trees were distroyed. The houses were broken, it was like an earthquake that distroyed everything that was on its path.
  It felt like a shake on the floor, first it was slow but after 2 minutes everything was destroyed.
The hospitals were crowded with kids shouting their parent's names and hurt men searching for their wifes.

Which was the common illness when this catastrophe happened?
- Over 300,000 men died. But the ones who survived were in danger due to very hazardous diseases. The body diposal because too many were infected so they dug and buried dead bodies so as not to contaminate more.
Infectious diseases such as yellow fever, cholera, diaries and typhoid were spread.
 There were diseases with relation to chicken pox, measles, scabies, fleas, lice.
This was a big problem because with the overcrowding of refugee camps and the little sanitation and damp many people spread disease.

After the tsunami, how does life go on?
- Many people suffered traumas and have to go to another place were tsunami don't ocurred.
But in the environment there have also been problems such as mangroves, corals reefs, desforestation, rocks formation, etc.
And nowadays you can see those problems.


A destructive Catastrophe:
The tsunami,  known as the Sumatra-Andaman, was triggered by an undersea megathrust earthquake on 26 of December, was the second biggest tsunami ever recorded, registering between 9.1 and 9.3. 
The tsunami, which was actually a series of tsunamis, affected many countries like India, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Maldives, Myanmar, Somalia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. 
The most deaths occurred in Indonesia. A lots of other countries also suffered from the tsunami like Bangladesh, Kenya, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Yemen, Australia, Madagascar, Mauritius, Oman, and Singapore.  Numerous other countries lost citizens who were traveling abroad and were caught by the tsunami.
People who knew the warning signs of a tsunami were able to save themselves like a British family who was saved because one of the children had learned about tsunamis and recognized the warning signs. Also animals could sensed the catastrophe and migrated to a safer place.
It not only affected to death because it also affected to economic and environmental problems. 
Some problems were contamination of potable water, desforestation, destruction of corals reef and the fishing gear and supplies were destroyed.






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