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GREAT SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE-INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI DECEMBER 26, 2004

GREAT SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE-INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI DECEMBER 26, 2004. FACTS ABOUT THE TSUNAMI RELIEF AND REBUILDING EFFORT DECEMBER 26, 2005. FACTS. This disaster was the most generously and most immediately funded international emergency relief effort ever .

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GREAT SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE-INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI DECEMBER 26, 2004

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  1. GREAT SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE-INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMIDECEMBER 26, 2004 FACTS ABOUT THE TSUNAMI RELIEF AND REBUILDING EFFORT DECEMBER 26, 2005

  2. FACTS • This disaster was the most generously and most immediately funded international emergency relief effort ever. • $13.6 billion was pledged by donors around the world to rebuild 13 Indian Ocean countries after the 26 December 2004 earthquake and tsunami.

  3. Indonesia Sri Lanka India Thailand Madagascar Maldives Malaysia Myanmar Seychelles Somalia Tanzania Kenya Bangladesh 13 AFFECTED COUNTRIES

  4. FACTS ABOUT THE TSUNAMI RELIEF AND REBUILDING EFFORT • Total damage: $10.73 billion. • Rebuilding costs: $10.375 billion. • Number of people displaced: 2,089,883. • Number of people who lost their livelihoods: 1.5 million. • Number of people killed: at least 230,000. • Ratio of women and children killed to men: 3:1

  5. FACTS • Number of houses reduced to rubble: 392,544. • Number needed: 308,000. • Number built or under construction: 46,000.

  6. FACTS • A $53 million interim warning system using tidal gauges and undersea sensors is nearing completion in the Indian Ocean with help from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission.

  7. FACTS • Tsunami national warning centers are being planned for 27 countries around the Indian Ocean rim. • Three of them will be regional centers.

  8. FACTS • Thailand and Indonesia are installing warning towers on vulnerable beaches. • Sri Lanka has established model "Tsunami Protection Villages." • India is spending $27 million to establish a regional warning center by 2007.

  9. UNANSWERED QUESTIONS UNTIL THE NEXT TSUNAMI • When the inevitable tsunami strikes the Indian Ocean rim again, will the Warning Centers’ urgent messages reach the remote villages? • Will the Warning Centers be staffed 24 hours, seven days a week? • Will authorities be able to put evacuation plans into effect when they receive a tsunami warning?

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