By Prapan Chankaew. On the morning after Christmas Day in , a 9. Memorials were scheduled in the Indonesian province of Aceh, where entire villages were flattened and more than , people perished in the giant waves. Since then, the area has been largely rebuilt, with some 25, residential, commercial, government and school buildings constructed inside a high-risk zone, that had suffered virtually total devastation in Survivors of Asia's tsunami and relatives of its victims cried and prayed as they gathered along Indian Ocean shorelines on Friday for memorials to mark the 10th anniversary of a disaster that still leaves an indelible mark on the region.
Personal possessions of tsunami victims are arranged to be photographed outside a police station in Takua Pa, in Phang Nga province, on December 19, Thai police opened a shipping container filled with documents and possessions of victims of the Indian Ocean Tsunami after being asked by Reuters for permission to film its contents. The three meter by 12 meter container was handed over to Thai police in and contains hundreds of plastic police evidence bags - each one holding the precious items found on the body of a victim.
People light candles as survivors, local residents and visitors gather for a ceremony for victims of tsunami in Ban Nam Khem, a southern fishing village destroyed by the wave, on December 26, In Thailand, where 5, people were killed, among them about 2, foreign tourists, commemoration ceremonies will be held in Ban Nam Khem.
Hundreds of lanterns which symbolizes the spirits of victims of the Asian tsunami, are released into the sky during a commemoration service to mark the 10th anniversary of the day this natural disaster happened, on December 26, in Ban Nam Khem, Thailand. Soe, the eight-year-old daughter of a fisherman from Myanmar, rests in a hammock outside her family home in Ban Nam Khem, Thailand, on December 13, Ban Nam Khem, a small fishing village on Thailand's Andaman Sea coast and home to a large migrant workers' community, lost nearly half of its population of 5, in the tsunami.
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One last look at the colorful beauty of this autumn, seen across the Northern Hemisphere. Images of an foot-tall puppet, depicting a Syrian refugee girl, that has traveled 5, miles in recent months. Diwali celebrations in India, a walk through a pond in Belgium, a glacier in Argentina, anti-government protests in Bangkok, a foggy sunrise over San Francisco, and much more.
Images of this rugged, treeless archipelago located in the North Atlantic, about halfway between Norway and Iceland. I want to receive updates from The Atlantic about new products and offerings. Skip to content. The quake originated in a so-called megathrust fault, where heavy oceanic plates subduct beneath lighter continental plates.
The quake ruptured a mile stretch along the Indian and Australian plates 31 miles below the ocean floor. Rather than delivering one violent jolt, the quake lasted an unrelenting 10 minutes, releasing as much pent-up power as several thousand atomic bombs. In the process, massive segments of the ocean floor were forced upward an estimated 30 or 40 meters up to feet. Titov emphasizes that tsunamis look nothing like the giant surfing break-style waves that many of us imagine.
An earthquake and tsunami of the magnitude that struck in 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.
Both Borrero and Titov took part in U. Geological Survey expeditions in early to measure the full extent of the tsunami that struck Sumatra. It was during these expeditions that scientists confirmed maximum wave heights of more than feet on the northwestern tip of the island. 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.
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