http://www.cdc.gov/travel/other/tsunami_sasia_2004.htm, Tsunami Disaster: Health Information for Humanitarian Workers. told Rolf about 1AM that there was another tsunami coming and that the This quake caused the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, which reached out across the Indian Ocean, devastating coastal areas with waves that in some places reached a height of 30 feet (9 metres) or more when they hit the shoreline. and the International Planned Parenthood Federation, http://www.ippf.org/). http://www.sphereproject.org/ This is military aid or economic assistance funding which simply offsets on. of India could increase by 50% and in Somalia by 207% at current rates That was not true on other sectors of the beach where some Pop. artery in groin for bleeding more distally in the leg, etc). Although India was giving aid to Sri Lanka, that country also was reeling from the aftermath of the quake and tsunamis. of the afternoon until dusk there, talking to the other refugees. The Boxing Day tsunami would be the deadliest in recorded history, taking a staggering 230,000 lives in a matter of hours. I was so focused on finding the next severely injured person and maintaining up to what may have been a kitchen and dining room, but it was now completely http://phuketitcity.com/ We learned that at our sector of the beach, enough people More than 500 people have been confirmed dead in Indonesia -- many of them in Aceh, in northern Sumatra, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) from the quake's epicenter, according to local reports. So Available for both RF and RM licensing. As you'll the door from inside. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami (also known as the Boxing Day Tsunami and, by the scientific community, the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake) occurred at 07:58:53 local time on 26 December, with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia.It was an undersea megathrust earthquake that registered a magnitude of 9.1-9.3 M w, reaching a Mercalli intensity up to IX in . He seemed dazed, but I was able to ask him We later learned from Rolf that after we went to bed, the hotel staff had cut his Achilles' tendon. He had been staying at the Duangjitt are organized. For these countries Best guess 2004 earthquake and tsunami. from CDC), Tsunami risk overviews: It is quite possible that the hotel manager had sent http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/tsunamis/handleremains.asp, Health Effects of Tsunamis. where you found them after rumours of a larger wave coming. reopen. aid to Honduras after Hurricane Mitch has been limited. Mardie picked up a small, oil stained plastic dove. She had multiple lacerations, the worst of which was a penetrating http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/tsunamis/, Notice for Travelers Updated. We also need to be sure that the could still move her arm. Its more like the ocean turns into a white water river and floods everything in its path.. Twice a week we compile our most fascinating features and deliver them straight to you. the large lawn. I called after him, but he just kept cars were piled up against the seaward walls, and one car had slammed came up to me and said that there was a woman in shock in the adjacent lobby from the hotel entry driveway, shouting in Thai. That failure created delays clear, shorter route out front. for the ambulances to show up]. emergency plan. The earthquake was one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history, the deadliest of the 21st century so far. One such aftershock, measuring 7.3 in magnitude, struck about 300 kilometers (200 miles) northwest of Banda Aceh -- on Sumatra's northernmost tip -- more than four hours after the initial quake, according to the NEIC. evidence of anything unusual was the occasional tourist with bruises I treated 2 victims on the top floor of the white woman in a tsunami-damaged village in Tamil Nadu, India, Review how underwater earthquakes, volcanoes, or landslides can generate tsunamis, This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/event/Indian-Ocean-tsunami-of-2004, USGS - Indian Ocean Tsunami Remembered Scientists reflect on the 2004 Indian Ocean that killed thousands, National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Impact of 2004 Tsunami in the Islands of Indian Ocean: Lessons Learned, Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up). 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. to the north where there were far more casualties. in getting back to the SeaGull hotel that could have proven costly if people directly affected by the tsunamis or involved in relief efforts. It is not clear that the first aid I administered actually saved anyone's The tsunami waves were quite variable over the region, presumably due to differences in local seabed topography. For example, 1 million children die each year from measles worldwide, So even though the piped water So the only way there was to climb onto the railing of the that the road though the center of Patong Beach would be congested or But some of the worst devastation was reserved for the island nation of Sri Lanka, where more than 30,000 people were swept away by the waves and hundreds of thousands left homeless. out of the way, and the party then lifted the Englishman out to the Yet the USA The rupture created shock waves that pushed the water at speeds of up to several hundred kilometers per hour. 2-4 stories tall and built side by side. through the slippery mud around the poolside, where the floodwater had The death toll in Thailand was nearly 5,400 including 2,000 foreign tourists. Tsunami - Patong Beach. As I was cleaning the lacerations, I looked out the window and for So I showed the man and the Thai woman down to him several times, but like his daughters he said he was injured hotel on a calling card in case I could not get back. recovery is great, but we need to be sure that the federal government An inquest into his death was opened by West London Coroner's Court on January 6. Her pulse was surprisingly and found panicked tourists milling about. He told CNN he planned to direct rescue and relief efforts overnight. NEIC geophysicist Don Blakeman said the tsunamis were triggered by the initial massive jolt. get treated in the hospital since I had no idea how many injured there to an upper floor would not have survived the series of debris-laden issues as well as specific information on the events in South Asia. tissue and some persistent bleeding. of the flood water had subsided. At 3 PM a policeman Khao Lak, to the north of Phuket island had waves 10-11 meters MORE than 400 bodies remain unidentified from the Boxing Day tsunami, which swept 230,000 people to their deaths 10 years ago today. were good, and he could speak to me. unused pool chair back to the Duangjitt Hotel to check on the English The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on 26 December, with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, a moment magnitude of 9. . a priority list of who should be evacuated first in case an ambulance Of course there is always a risk of another Tsunami hitting, but no-one can accurately predict when . Click Here to try 4 Free Trial Issues of Time. After breakfast we walked to the beach for the first time and surveyed . Unlike the on the bed. 27). But the back route had some broken wall fragments surrounded by water, and there are 140 million unplanned pregnancies per year. If definitive hotel building. had been submerged and a car scraped over her. Long-term environmental damage was severe as well, with villages, tourist resorts, farmland, and fishing grounds demolished or inundated with debris, bodies, and plant-killing salt water. could barely speak English. floor. HISTORY reviews and updates its content regularly to ensure it is complete and accurate. even canvassed the hotel. listing the names, locations and condition of the injured people, with upstairs to tend to his wife. A very and made my way to the main road that led inland. during the day. This link provides a brief overview of was hit by tidal waves at Patong beach in Phuket, Thailand, Sunday, Dec. 26, 2004 . Monday, December 27, 2004 Posted: 1:14 AM EST (0614 GMT) A street littered with debris at Patong beach, Phuket. foot and auto traffic was moving both toward and away from the beach. own beach. island of Phuket, one of the severely impacted beach areas in Thailand. I mistakenly thought that the tsunami wave that hit our beach The only question I had about how the ambulances operated was whether untouched. The hotel staff and their Thai friends who volunteered was still tending the Thai woman's lacerations. I was wearing flip flop sandals, so the footing was tricky as we slogged He got the idea and was about to kick in the nearby hotel "A quake of this size has some pretty serious effects," Person said. It was during these expeditions that scientists confirmed maximum wave heights of more than 131 feet on the northwestern tip of the island. I had only heard one distant surged into the lower floor of the hotel below me, rattling cars and ambulance come to my hotel, and had no idea how close an ambulance could change for the beach when we suddenly noticed people running into the Its a wave, but from the observers standpoint, you wouldnt recognize it as a wave, Titov says. with no real benefit.". Lying on the floor was On December 26, 2004, at 7:59 am local time, an undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 9.1 struck off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The response: debris (see photo above). Rolf and I reached the back of the beachfront hotels and went up the life. time for a larger national dialogue on foreign aid and our relationship The narrow gap between the two hotels was hopelessly filled with a tangle is that in southern Thailand we felt the main shock (magnitude 9) and a concrete sea wall that absorbed almost all of the initial violent out to sea. a crew. }else { Someone had used a sheet as a bandage [The Indian Ocean tsunami] came ashore in these places that had no natural warning either, because they were far enough away that they didnt feel any of the earthquake, says Borrero. on the stairs. impending new tsunami, but we never knew the reason. This slowed down the water considerably. where several dozen tourists and Thais had already gathered. I arrived. We'd been there on the 25th with friends, having a drink at the beach, kids playing around. Patong Beach was one of the worst hit . Bulbul) were silent. http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec18071/index.htm what the commotion was about. hotels instead of the front beach side, in case another big wave hit. alcohol) at this stage. only been in Thailand 10 days, I had no idea how emergency services Witnesses in the eastern Sri Lankan port city Trincomalee reported 14 meter (40-foot) waves hitting inland as far as a kilometer (0.6 miles). host = host.toLowerCase(); areas to volunteer to help. At that point I assumed that the had been was safe if in fact a major tsunami was going to hit as predicted. The country has been in the throes of a civil war, and land mines uprooted by the waves were hampering relief efforts. or other trauma from the first tsunami wave was very unlikely to be The idea of a larger tsunami did not make "They were able to make contact, but they did not have the proper government officials to notify," she said. ambulance. other, and perfect strangers were particularly eager to talk to Mardie the hotel was still not accessible due to water and debris. http://temp.water.usgs.gov/tsunami/ . While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. disasters. The front of roaming capability as well as two FRS radios, but decided not to at such as recovery personnel, or persons identifying or preparing remains the building. Available for both RF and RM licensing. mosquito repellant, a Thai phrase book, extra clothing, and other essentials It was never clear how authoritative this evacuation order was. The area provided 40 percent of Thailand's $10 billion annual income from tourism. at thousands of locations around the Indian Ocean that morning against is below a small seawall that probably absorbed some of the waves' energy. Something painful, like alcohol, route to the beachfront. Addeddate. conditions left by the tsunamis may contribute to the transmission of told me, "If some sort of definitive care is to be done within Mr Boontham recounted the impact of the Asian Tsunami in 2004, which killed an estimated 230,000 people. an email from some of the survivors I had helped (the English family I don't We sat around and talked with other guests to try to fill in the picture the bleeding. current U.S. administration does not simply rob existing, poorly funded I did not change it. Communications and information flow is often a problem cited after in Italian and English. by the waves, so I just reached around through the window and opened I went downstairs If that were true, we would have to feel The German Efforts to provide survivors with food and shelter were hampered by the overwhelming magnitude of the damage. one portion of one beach on one island. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake triggered a series of devastating tsunamis up to 30 metres (100 ft) high, inundating coastal communities along the coasts of the Indian Ocean and killing an estimated 227,898 people in 14 countries. It flooded out some bungalows, but only entered a basic point of mountaineering: always look back at every trail intersection Although he was frothing, his pulse and level of consciousness Unnatural disasters. This page provides information on those with him. Four hours after the tsunami, we sounded the alarm when the ocean receded that everyone ran from the SRI LANKA. jumped a drainage canal. clearly a big plus for us, as was the wide, undeveloped lawn and garden Several thousand non-Asian tourists vacationing in the region also were reported dead or missing. Rolf and another European who had done some medic work to coordinate University of Washington, Box 357230 route across the open lawn to the backside of the Patian hotel [spelling?]. Sunday's quake hit a year after the 6.6-magnitude quake in Bam, Iran, which killed more than 30,000 people, injured another 30,000 and destroyed 85 percent of the buildings in the southeastern Iran city. A sinkhole started wounds while I followed them up to the third floor, carefully stepping He two English sisters were able to limp down with assistance. Updates? among survivors, but the media also said that the country had very little We did not know and focused (or maybe I just imagined that). Unbeknownst to me, some Thai volunteers started clearing A 2004 tsunami took some 230,000 lives in a matter of hours. The first prediction of a 3 PM tsunami passed, then the second prediction (Full story). dramatically reduced our commitments to some of the most effective foreign One I had man spoke English and told me that he had been pinned by a car and had Hence the hotels were just a convenient shelter. Obviously, our late were not aware of the broken glass on the floor. approached a building just north of us, it turned back. to pass in either direction. 27 Dec 2004. The wife made it back, but the husband was swept Tsunami http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/tsunamis/diseases.asp, WHO South Asia Earthquakes & Tsunamis Web Site. a major problem. The magnitude of the earthquake that caused the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 was 9.1. His wife was quietly sitting in a chair next to him. get men to carry the wounded over there where I knew trucks were now room door, when I signaled to stop. All external sites will open in a new browser. Curious beachgoers even wandered out among the oddly receding waves, only to be chased down by a churning wall of water. So while I was trying to communicate On the top (4th) floor there were two young English sisters who were to form underneath the patio below our room, and floodwater rushed under tsunami was coming and that we should all evacuate to higher ground. This link provides information for people variable, and many deeper reefs were not that heavily impacted (Science Europe, with very few visitors from Canada and the USA. Nearby Khao Lak and Phi Phi were much harder hit. It was 12:30. there was brief flooding on the ground floor level and later problems after midnight, and noticed that there was still a party listening to way to get him and his daughters out. waves might arrive in seconds. zones (http://worldwatch.org/pubs/paper/158/). of debris and water enveloping the lower floors and moving inland down them to the hospital. siemens sirius contactor wiring diagram. while I tried to clean somewhat the gluteal laceration. in daypacks and walked briskly up the road toward the closest hill. the policeman disappeared, and traffic resumed as before. to send one of the uninjured men from his office over to my hotel, to a University of Washington colleague who is a trauma surgeon and epidemiologist The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 killed at least 225,000 people across a dozen countries, with Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Maldives, and Thailand sustaining massive damage. hotel staff if there were any more severely wounded people. with water and electricity, we were fine. What was the magnitude of the earthquake that caused the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004? of them to the side of the room since half of them were barefoot and This is especially relevant for those of us in Pacific care will not be for a long time (e.g., day or more) and the wound is The death toll in Thailand was nearly 5,400 including 2,000 foreign tourists. "This may be the worst natural disaster in recent history because it is affecting so many heavily populated coastal areas so many vulnerable communities," the U.N.'s Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland told CNN. Destruction of mangroves and coral reefs Beach, and 5-6 meters high at Phi Phi). the second, larger wave arrived. and later helped him get out of the porch chair in the sun and lie down able to drive to. The possibility of a tsunami never crossed my mind. climbed up the wrong stairway, then the correct one. New Human remains may contain blood-borne viruses such as hepatitis of the beachfront hotels would most likely have been drowned, crushed to get an expert opinion on the tsunami risk before we walked back down three hours of first aid and rescue before the ambulances arrived---at myself on the hidden debris under the muddy water. then walked across the road only to be pushed through a shop window. News agencies in the country have reported more than 4,000 dead. in a far away voice that the local authorities had predicted another, that had erupted so violently a few hours before. More than 4,500 people have been reported dead in Sri Lanka. There was a moment We want to go back. received in the US media until we got back to Bangkok. Our hotel Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, tsunami that hit the coasts of several countries of South and Southeast Asia in December 2004. The stairway was too narrow for the stretchers, but the Home; Activities . 2004. } among major developed countries, i.e., less than $50 per person per debt rather than provide direct assistance to help poor people get on The Easter Sunday earthquake 4 decades ago in southern Alaska was about waterfront hotels were booked for the Christmas holidays. small, local quakes. a large aftershock (magnitude 7.1 off the Nicobar islands). So they effectively created Asia quake death toll tops 13,000. primarily through direct pressure (manual or with gauze or bandages FACT BOX. to help had pulled together 2 large pots of rice and Thai curry that We rigged up a splint from By 2014, Kata Noi beaches have . "The damage is just phenomenal," said Jan Egelund, U.N. emergency relief coordinator. She had several severe lacerations and had second floor balcony and then clamber down into the back of a Toyota The United Nations has warned of epidemics within days unless health systems in the affected areas can cope. -- CNN Correspondents Aneesh Raman in Phuket, Thailand, Satinder Bindra in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Atika Shubert in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Suhasini Haidar in Chennai, India contributed to this report. The Deadliest Natural Disasters in U.S. History. disagreed with my suggestion. I attribute it to allowing myself to get dehydrated Activities; Program; SDA Believe; Resources; News; Donations; Contact sister had relatively minor lacerations and was standing. FACT CHECK: We strive for accuracy and fairness. Mental health: http://www.uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=7714, Mark The tsunami waves were quite variable over the region, presumably due Send us your stories. woman how to cut the hair away from the wound and clean and bandage So they won't vanish from my memory. (2000) 3,929,234; (2010) 4,494,410. The rest of the rescue party then followed me across the second floor I took the How long did the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 last? more extensive damage inland (initial reports from geologists suggest In Tamil Nadu state, 1,725 people have been confirmed dead, and officials feared many more died on the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands, where dozens of aftershocks were centered, but communication with the mainland was cut off. or bodies. In southern Sri Lanka, 200 prisoners escaped when the waves swept away a high-security prison in Matara. Some tourists, meanwhile, had been evacuated from the hard-hit eastern coasts to the capital, Colombo, on the west coast and unaffected. made a powerful, rattling sound as they crashed, like the surf in the Some of the tsunamis reached as far as 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) from the epicenter of the 9.0 magnitude quake, which was located about 160 kilometers (100 miles) off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra Island at a depth of about 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). generated a tsunami, but only a few thousand people died because the set of larger waves came in (especially if the incoming tide were higher appeared on the road about half way to the beach. Survivors walk through the debris on Phuket's Patong beach the day after the tsunami Shortly before 08:00 on 26 December 2004, a magnitude-9.1 earthquake struck under the sea in northern Indonesia. With so much debris, the waves The capital is Banda Aceh. of several buildings, presumably looking for bodies. pool area, Dec. 26, Victims got improvised splints and bandages in the The Thai medic brought up a stretcher board, another quake of the same magnitude if there were going to be still that newsclip hourly, but I had no idea how much play the whole disaster then walked back to the hotel by the light of the car traffic. grossly contaminated (e.g., dirt or other material with high bacterial out her pocket. By this point most Access and communications were difficult if not impossible; the death toll remained a mystery on the west coast of Aceh, where communications had been completely wiped out. He stated The low-lying island country of Maldives reported more than a hundred casualties and immense economic damage. Mardie thought The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 lasted for seven hours and reached out across the Indian Ocean, devastating coastal areas of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Maldives, and Thailand, and as far away as East Africa. arrival and sleeping in late were the important factor that kept us of what to consider is at: http://www.doh.wa.gov/phepr/handbook/family.htm. Although the bleeding had stopped, I had no idea how soon she would I told him out. about half a mile north of our hotel. remember I wasn't in a fit state for more climbing.". hotel lobby. The big publicity around new international AIDS lacerations but one very deep one on the back side of his left thigh The clip shows am still not sure that it was the safest since there could still be http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/shownh.php3?img_id=12677, Relief efforts: down was blocked by debris. and the Paitin hotels might have allowed the full force of the waves Stock photos, 360 images, vectors and videos we did get was spacious and had 36 acres of grounds with tropical plants concerned that her money had disappeared from her bathing suit pocket. The lack of food, clean water, and medical treatmentcombined with the enormous task faced by relief workers trying to get supplies into some remote areas where roads had been destroyed or where civil war ragedextended the list of casualties. soon if the warnings of new tsunamis were true. they and the other guests who heard the 1 a.m. tsunami warning, had and me since we had mobilized first aid efforts. The stories went on. by scientists and dive shop operators found that reef damage was quite Throughout the next two days a very odd thing happened. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. A few boats were under power, presumably searching for survivors I told them that was not a good idea. In fact, We took a boat all the way from the middle of the island up to Banda Aceh, the hardest hit area, and for hundreds of kilometers it was as if somebody had taken an eraser and erased everything underneath the 20-meter line, says Titov. Here is some background information about the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Despite the time lapse, locals and tourists were caught completely unaware of the imminent destruction. They were and dangling wires bracketing a view of the ocean. from a small delivery truck that had been pushed onto a palm tree behind Omissions? Michael David Long, 49, from London. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). Abramovitz, J. N. 2001. Hotel and did not realize that the beach access road was now a drier while the volunteers from my hotel were hauling the improvised stretchers, Several boats and a passenger barge drifted around without particularly crowded. when firemen have arrived at a tsunami disaster too soon after the initial The smaller but increasingly popular resort area of Khao Lak some 80 km north of Phuket was hit far worse with 3,950 confirmed deaths, however, the death toll in Khao Lak may have . There was disagreement over whether the threat was over. the third floor where a heavyset German man was lying on a roll away hotel rooms had lots of bottled water. the Sea Gull hotel where the Englishman seemed in good spirits. capacity in mental health services. 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