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. Over the next seven hours, a tsunami —a series of immense ocean waves—triggered by the quake reached out across the Indian Ocean, devastating coastal areas as far away as East Africa.
Case Study: Indian Ocean Tsunami 2004
The Earthquake. It began at 7:59am local time on December 26, 2004, when a 9.1-magnitude earthquake struck off Sumatra in Indonesia. The earthquake was the third-biggest ever recorded at the time and lasted around 10 minutes. It displaced 30 cubic kilometres of water, unleashing a massive tsunami across the Indian Ocean. 2.
Environmental hazards Case study: Indian Ocean Tsunami 2004
A very common case study for earthquakes is the South-East Asian tsunami of 2004. Other case studies include Mexico 1985, San Francisco 1989, Kobe 1995 and Pakistan 2005. ... On 26 December 2004 ...
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
On 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time (), a major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2-9.3 M w struck with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia.The undersea megathrust earthquake, known by the scientific community as the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, [8] [9] was caused by a rupture along the fault between the Burma Plate and the Indian Plate, and reached a ...
Case Study: Sumatra and Thailand and the 2004 Tsunami
Print. Case Study: Sumatra and Thailand and the 2004 Tsunami. The Importance of Tsunami Warning Systems and the challenges of warning communication. Think back to the video you watched in Module 7 - which included scenes of the 2004 tsunami event in Indonesia. The beginning of the video focused on the Banda Aceh area of Sumatra, where fishing ...
Indian Ocean Tsunami Remembered
In the early hours of Dec. 26, 2004, ... Sometimes known as the Christmas or Boxing Day tsunami, the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami is far from a distant memory, a decade after resulting in more than 200,000 casualities. ... said that earthquakes and tsunamis like those in 2004 have brought awareness and the need to study and prepare ...
PDF The 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake: A Case Study
Case Study. Dec 26, 2004: Magnitude 9.3 (moment mag) Undersea (depth 30 km) Epicentre of the W coast of Sumatra. Tsunami followed, killing 225,000 in 11 countries. Caused by subduction: A 1600 km faultline slipped ~15 m along the subduction zone with the India plate slides under the Burma plate (over several mins) Reverse faulting. The 2nd ...
2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, known also as the Boxing Day Tsunami, was a natural disaster that occurred on December 26th, 2004. This natural disaster was one of the deadliest natural disasters recorded in history. The tsunami was first triggered by a massive 9.1 magnitude undersea earthquake that struck off of the west coast of northern ...
Modeling the 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami: Case study of
1. Introduction [2] The megathrust earthquake that struck near Indonesia on 26 December 2004 at 0h58′53″ UTC (+7h for Thailand local time) was likely the 3rd largest earthquake ever recorded [Stein and Okal, 2005].From its epicenter, located 80 km west of the coast of northern Sumatra (at approximately 95°51′W, 3°25′N), the earthquake proceeded approximately northward, rupturing 1200 ...
Modeling the 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami: Case study of
The devastating 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami stressed the need for assessing tsunami hazard in vulnerable coastal areas. Numerical modeling is but one important tool for understanding past t...
The Global Reach of the 26 December 2004 Sumatra Tsunami
At 07:59 local time (00:59 UTC) on 26 December 2004, a moment magnitude ( Mw) 9.3 megathrust earthquake occurred along 1300 km of the oceanic subduction zone located 100 km west of Sumatra and the Nicobar and Andaman Islands in the eastern Indian Ocean ( 1 ). Highly destructive waves were generated by up to 10-m vertical displacements ...
Modeling the 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami: Case study of
Modeling the 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami: Case study of impact in Thailand M. Ioualalen,1 J. Asavanant,2 N. Kaewbanjak,2 S. T. Grilli,3 J. T. Kirby,4 and P. Watts5 Received 29 July 2006; revised 9 February 2007; accepted 19 April 2007; published 24 July 2007. [1] The devastating 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami stressed the need for
Tsunami devastates Indian Ocean coast
A powerful earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, on December 26, 2004 sets off a tsunami that wreaks death and devastation across the Indian Ocean coastline. The quake was the second ...
Tsunami Generation from the 2004 M=9.1 Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake
The December 26, 2004 M=9.1 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake occurred along a tectonic subduction zone in which the India Plate, an oceanic plate, is being subducted beneath the Burma micro-plate, part of the larger Sunda plate.. The interface between the two plates results in a large fault, termed an interplate thrust or megathrust.This fault lies below the southwestern part of Sumatra and the ...
Modeling the 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami: Case study of
Observed Runup r o and Predicted Runup r p Along the Andaman Coast of Thailand for the 0.25 0 Computational Grid a. Arrival of 26 December 2004 tsunami on Ko Phi Phi's north shore, starting at ...
[PDF] Modeling the 26 December 2004 Indian ocean tsunami : Case study
[1] The devastating 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami stressed the need for assessing tsunami hazard in vulnerable coastal areas. Numerical modeling is but one important tool for understanding past tsunami events and simulating future ones. Here we present a robust simulation of the event, which explains the large runups and destruction observed in coastal Thailand and identifies areas ...
PDF Case Study I: Tsunami Hazards in the Indian Ocean
Case Study I: Tsunami Hazards in the Indian Ocean The eastern Indian Ocean basin is a region of high earthquake and volcanic ... Indian Ocean as minor - prior to the 26 December 2004 event. Today we discuss the roots of this complacency and explore how it might be avoided as a
2004 tsunami: 17 years on, a look back at one of the deadliest
December 26, 2021, marks 17 years since the devastating Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami of 2004 which struck the coasts of multiple countries in south and southeast Asia and took a fatal toll ...
Comprehending the Indian Ocean Tsunami: Dec 26, 2004
Comprehending the Indian Ocean Tsunami: Dec 26, 2004 Case study: E-Book. This web-exhibit should be cited as the following: ... The book revisits the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and it's aftermath from the viewpoint of resilience and vulnerability. Vulnerability is a multi-faceted concept that lies at the intersection of diversity of risks and ...
Case Study on 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami by Yining Liu
On December 26, 2004, the Indian Ocean tsunami resulted in 250,000 deaths and 2 million people displaced. ... In this case study, Yining Liu explains that the tsunami occurred when an underwater earthquake, registered as a magnitude 9 on the Richter scale, resulted from subduction of the Indian Ocean tectonic plates. ...
Source Constraints and Model Simulation of the December 26, 2004
The December 26, 2004 tsunami was perhaps the most devastating tsunami in recorded history, causing over 200,000 fatalities and widespread destruction in countries bordering the Indian Ocean. It was generated by the third largest earthquake on record ( M w = 9.1 - 9.3 ) and was a truly global event, with significant wave action felt around ...
The Indian Ocean Tsunami and its Environmental Impacts
Case Study Series E-023. June 2015 [Updated February 2021] ... Research Group on The December 26, 2004 Earthquake Tsunami Disaster of Indian Ocean, Kyoto: Kyoto University; UNEP, 2004, "Environmental Management and Disaster preparedness: Lessons Learnt from the Tokage Typhoon (Typhoon 23 of 2004) in Japan". Osaka: United Nations Environment ...
2004 Tsunami CASE Study
Case Study: 2004 TSUNAMI. When: 26 th December 2004. Magnitude of earthquake: 9-9. Epicentre: west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. Waves: 30 m (100 ft) Deaths: 250,000 people in 14 countries. Injured: 125, Economic cost: US$ 9 billion. The 2004 tsunami caused by the 9.1-9 magnitude Sumatra-Andaman earthquake was primarily caused by ...
2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
The 2004 tsunami was caused by a massive earthquake that was the third-largest earthquake ever recorded on a seismograph. It measured between 9.1 and 9.3-moment magnitude. The duration of faulting was between 8.3 and 10 minutes and this was the longest ever. The epicentre was in the Indian Ocean between Simeulue and mainland Indonesia.
What was the source of the nonseismic tsunami that occurred in ...
On the other hand, in the case of the 2024 event, multiple types of data of the nonseismic tsunami remain, including tide/wave gauge records, security camera footage, tsunami witness accounts, and ...
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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. Over the next seven hours, a tsunami —a series of immense ocean waves—triggered by the quake reached out across the Indian Ocean, devastating coastal areas as far away as East Africa.
The Earthquake. It began at 7:59am local time on December 26, 2004, when a 9.1-magnitude earthquake struck off Sumatra in Indonesia. The earthquake was the third-biggest ever recorded at the time and lasted around 10 minutes. It displaced 30 cubic kilometres of water, unleashing a massive tsunami across the Indian Ocean. 2.
A very common case study for earthquakes is the South-East Asian tsunami of 2004. Other case studies include Mexico 1985, San Francisco 1989, Kobe 1995 and Pakistan 2005. ... On 26 December 2004 ...
On 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time (), a major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2-9.3 M w struck with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia.The undersea megathrust earthquake, known by the scientific community as the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, [8] [9] was caused by a rupture along the fault between the Burma Plate and the Indian Plate, and reached a ...
Print. Case Study: Sumatra and Thailand and the 2004 Tsunami. The Importance of Tsunami Warning Systems and the challenges of warning communication. Think back to the video you watched in Module 7 - which included scenes of the 2004 tsunami event in Indonesia. The beginning of the video focused on the Banda Aceh area of Sumatra, where fishing ...
In the early hours of Dec. 26, 2004, ... Sometimes known as the Christmas or Boxing Day tsunami, the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami is far from a distant memory, a decade after resulting in more than 200,000 casualities. ... said that earthquakes and tsunamis like those in 2004 have brought awareness and the need to study and prepare ...
Case Study. Dec 26, 2004: Magnitude 9.3 (moment mag) Undersea (depth 30 km) Epicentre of the W coast of Sumatra. Tsunami followed, killing 225,000 in 11 countries. Caused by subduction: A 1600 km faultline slipped ~15 m along the subduction zone with the India plate slides under the Burma plate (over several mins) Reverse faulting. The 2nd ...
The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, known also as the Boxing Day Tsunami, was a natural disaster that occurred on December 26th, 2004. This natural disaster was one of the deadliest natural disasters recorded in history. The tsunami was first triggered by a massive 9.1 magnitude undersea earthquake that struck off of the west coast of northern ...
1. Introduction [2] The megathrust earthquake that struck near Indonesia on 26 December 2004 at 0h58′53″ UTC (+7h for Thailand local time) was likely the 3rd largest earthquake ever recorded [Stein and Okal, 2005].From its epicenter, located 80 km west of the coast of northern Sumatra (at approximately 95°51′W, 3°25′N), the earthquake proceeded approximately northward, rupturing 1200 ...
The devastating 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami stressed the need for assessing tsunami hazard in vulnerable coastal areas. Numerical modeling is but one important tool for understanding past t...
At 07:59 local time (00:59 UTC) on 26 December 2004, a moment magnitude ( Mw) 9.3 megathrust earthquake occurred along 1300 km of the oceanic subduction zone located 100 km west of Sumatra and the Nicobar and Andaman Islands in the eastern Indian Ocean ( 1 ). Highly destructive waves were generated by up to 10-m vertical displacements ...
Modeling the 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami: Case study of impact in Thailand M. Ioualalen,1 J. Asavanant,2 N. Kaewbanjak,2 S. T. Grilli,3 J. T. Kirby,4 and P. Watts5 Received 29 July 2006; revised 9 February 2007; accepted 19 April 2007; published 24 July 2007. [1] The devastating 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami stressed the need for
A powerful earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, on December 26, 2004 sets off a tsunami that wreaks death and devastation across the Indian Ocean coastline. The quake was the second ...
The December 26, 2004 M=9.1 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake occurred along a tectonic subduction zone in which the India Plate, an oceanic plate, is being subducted beneath the Burma micro-plate, part of the larger Sunda plate.. The interface between the two plates results in a large fault, termed an interplate thrust or megathrust.This fault lies below the southwestern part of Sumatra and the ...
Observed Runup r o and Predicted Runup r p Along the Andaman Coast of Thailand for the 0.25 0 Computational Grid a. Arrival of 26 December 2004 tsunami on Ko Phi Phi's north shore, starting at ...
[1] The devastating 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami stressed the need for assessing tsunami hazard in vulnerable coastal areas. Numerical modeling is but one important tool for understanding past tsunami events and simulating future ones. Here we present a robust simulation of the event, which explains the large runups and destruction observed in coastal Thailand and identifies areas ...
Case Study I: Tsunami Hazards in the Indian Ocean The eastern Indian Ocean basin is a region of high earthquake and volcanic ... Indian Ocean as minor - prior to the 26 December 2004 event. Today we discuss the roots of this complacency and explore how it might be avoided as a
December 26, 2021, marks 17 years since the devastating Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami of 2004 which struck the coasts of multiple countries in south and southeast Asia and took a fatal toll ...
Comprehending the Indian Ocean Tsunami: Dec 26, 2004 Case study: E-Book. This web-exhibit should be cited as the following: ... The book revisits the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and it's aftermath from the viewpoint of resilience and vulnerability. Vulnerability is a multi-faceted concept that lies at the intersection of diversity of risks and ...
On December 26, 2004, the Indian Ocean tsunami resulted in 250,000 deaths and 2 million people displaced. ... In this case study, Yining Liu explains that the tsunami occurred when an underwater earthquake, registered as a magnitude 9 on the Richter scale, resulted from subduction of the Indian Ocean tectonic plates. ...
The December 26, 2004 tsunami was perhaps the most devastating tsunami in recorded history, causing over 200,000 fatalities and widespread destruction in countries bordering the Indian Ocean. It was generated by the third largest earthquake on record ( M w = 9.1 - 9.3 ) and was a truly global event, with significant wave action felt around ...
Case Study Series E-023. June 2015 [Updated February 2021] ... Research Group on The December 26, 2004 Earthquake Tsunami Disaster of Indian Ocean, Kyoto: Kyoto University; UNEP, 2004, "Environmental Management and Disaster preparedness: Lessons Learnt from the Tokage Typhoon (Typhoon 23 of 2004) in Japan". Osaka: United Nations Environment ...
Case Study: 2004 TSUNAMI. When: 26 th December 2004. Magnitude of earthquake: 9-9. Epicentre: west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. Waves: 30 m (100 ft) Deaths: 250,000 people in 14 countries. Injured: 125, Economic cost: US$ 9 billion. The 2004 tsunami caused by the 9.1-9 magnitude Sumatra-Andaman earthquake was primarily caused by ...
The 2004 tsunami was caused by a massive earthquake that was the third-largest earthquake ever recorded on a seismograph. It measured between 9.1 and 9.3-moment magnitude. The duration of faulting was between 8.3 and 10 minutes and this was the longest ever. The epicentre was in the Indian Ocean between Simeulue and mainland Indonesia.
On the other hand, in the case of the 2024 event, multiple types of data of the nonseismic tsunami remain, including tide/wave gauge records, security camera footage, tsunami witness accounts, and ...