Tsunami: When nature strikes
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date published 07/07/2008
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SummaryJust as people thought the world is completely in their hands, a sudden twist of events will occur and prove them wrong. In as much as they endeavor to win over everything, nature strikes back, making them realize how weak they actually are compared to the world where they live in.It was one morning of 2004, just a day after Christmas when the coasts of Southern Thailand was swept down by several tall waves of water, killing 5395 people, with 2932 declared missing (Rigg, Law, Tan-Mullins, & Grundy-Warr, 2005, p.374). The incident shocked the world with the damages it left and the number of lives it took. The culprit being pointed at for this untimely disaster is some complex natural movements down under – and the calamity itself is technically termed as tsunami. The latter is a “Japanese word meaning, “harbor wave,”… a class of abnormal sea wave that can cause catastrophic damage when it hits a coastline” (“Tsunami,” 2006). There are several natural events that account for this phenomenon such as “earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides beneath the ocean, or an asteroid striking the earth” (“Tsunami”, 2007). All these can be considered as calamities themselves; however, once they result to tsunami, one can expect a greater disaster.
Table of Contents
- Introduction.
- Origins and sequence of events.
- Nature of devastation.
- Past tsunami incidents.
- On reducing devastation.
- Conclusion.
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