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Total Area: : 65,610 sq km

Sri Lanka. Population : 19,238,575. Total Area: : 65,610 sq km. Coastline: 1,340 km. KDW Nandalal Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Peradenitya, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is very popular for it’s beautiful beaches. It was a normal sunny day in December

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Total Area: : 65,610 sq km

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  1. Sri Lanka • Population: 19,238,575 • Total Area: : 65,610 sq km • Coastline: 1,340 km KDW Nandalal Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Peradenitya, Sri Lanka

  2. Sri Lanka is very popular for it’s beautiful beaches

  3. It was a normal sunny day in December 26th of December 2004 a Sunday as as well as a Full moon day (Called as Poya-day and every Poya day is a Special holiday in Sri Lanka) No one was busy It was school vacation Some of them were enjoying on the golden beaches Some were resting at their homes Everyone near coast noted some changes in the sea

  4. Those who knew the behavior of the sea wanted to move away from it Curious lot wanted to witness the changes First waves rose more than usual

  5. Then beaches were dried out and coastline extended 100s of meters. Some of them started to mark the boundaries on the newly found land Some of them were fishing on the naked beach happily

  6. Waves started their journey back

  7. Suddenly beautiful waves turned into a hungry dragon and started raging towards the land swallowing every thing on its way

  8. Gushing the things in the Hotels

  9. Swimming pools filled with sea water

  10. It swirled, gushed, uprooted, destroyed and turned upside down of the lives of thousands of Sri Lankans within minutes

  11. Where the Yala Safari Beach hotel had been

  12. Like to study about a cross section of a road?

  13. Roads washed off

  14. Check weather the foundation was laid well

  15. Who pushed the train out of it rails?

  16. How many lives gone with the train?

  17. Where had the cars gone?

  18. Houses broken into two

  19. Uprooted houses and trees

  20. What can I do now? Where are my children? My Husband?

  21. Burrying the dead bodies

  22. Burning some of them

  23. Every thing is impermanent! Is that what Statue of Lord Buddha is trying to say?

  24. Every one rushed to help Collecting food cloths what ever that can be useful for the victims of the deadly tsunami

  25. Foreign aids also starts to flow in

  26. Removing whatever that can be used to rebuilt

  27. My dear friends, you all have lost your fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, and friends but do not worry We have experienced these kind of things all along the Samsara That is what Lord Buddha taught me

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