2004 Boxing Day tsunami was caused by the subduction of the Indian plate and the Burma plate. That’s a sudden slip motion produced a magnitude 9.2
Impacts
- 10 metre waves in Sumatra and 4m waves in Sri Lanka and Thailand
- 220,000 people dead
- 150,000 dead in Indonesia, 35,000 people dead in Sri Lanka
- Doctors and nurses dead which delayed first aid
- Coasts with man Groves saw some protection
- Water had debris which when moving at high speeds had become a battering ram
- $10 billion in damages
- 600,000 people displaced
Responses
- $75 million pledged by the UK
- Australia controlled air traffic in the area
- NGOs had airlifted tarpaulins, defibrillators and food
- Total aid amounted to $5 billion
- Political tensions between the government and rebell groups slowed aid in Sri Lanka