Dec. 26, 2004, Indian Ocean tsunami

He has managed virtually every major relief operation for the organization since the early 1990s, from the Rwandan genocide to the Ebola crisis in Liberia. He also served as the director of the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, leading the U.S. response to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the ...

Famous for its historic fort, amazingly everything inside the original walls survived the 2004 tsunami unscathed. Taking a guided tour, it reminded me of the Old City of Jerusalem, with shmutter sellers aplenty. At the palatial surroundings of our resort just outside town, Cape Weligama, it was all about some ...

"In comparison to the significant rewards beach tourism offers globally, tsunami risk seems small, however, for those locations that are hit, the losses can be devastating," says Schaefer. In the Maldives, more than 20% of the beach resorts closed down after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.

The tsunami awareness education and emergency evacuation drills will be hold in five schools that were all damaged in the 2004 tsunami. In Sri Lanka, the Indian Ocean tsunami claimed 35,000 lives, 40% of whom where children. 183 schools were damaged and nearly 100,000 students were affected ...

The exercise will allow these schools to simulate on how to evacuate the students properly to identified safe locations as well as to simulate on School's Disaster Management Plan developed. The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami claimed the lives of more than thirty-five thousand Sri Lankans and affected more ...

Tsunamis are rare events, but can be extremely deadly. In the past 100 years, 58 of them have claimed more than 260,000 lives, or an average of 4,600 per disaster, surpassing any other natural hazard. The highest number of deaths in that period was in the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004.

Thirteen years ago, the fateful morning of 26th December 2004 swept away over 230,000 lives across fourteen countries bordering the Indian Ocean. India was one of them where 10,749 lives were lost in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Puducherry and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck off eastern Indonesia in the early hours of Monday, triggering a brief tsunami alert that was swiftly lifted, according to seismic monitoring organisations, ... A tsunami alert was initially triggered by the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (IOTWMS).

It is frequently hit by quakes, most of them harmless. However, the archipelago remains acutely alert to tremors that might trigger tsunamis. In 2004, a devastating tsunami triggered by a magnitude 9.3 undersea earthquake off the coast of Sumatra killed 220,000 people in countries around the Indian Ocean, ...

“Mr. Galloway operated Catholic Online which accepted donations for victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and 2005 Hurricane Katrina,” Michael T. Batdorf, special agent in charge, IRS Criminal Investigation, said in a press release. “Mr. Galloway used the funds for personal and business expenses; making those ...

Barbados and its Caribbean neighbours have never suffered the effects of a tsunami. But we are not ignorant of the devastating impact of this kind of natural disaster. Most of us can remember the 2004 Boxing Day Indian Ocean tsunami that hit 14 countries. The tidal waves caused by a 9.1 magnitude ...

She said some of the cities are “just now having that discussion,” with water companies. In the face of all this, Jones said she's optimistic and she cites the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami as a reason. “There were people from 57 different countries killed in that tsunami.” She said that although disasters are rare ...