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	Armageddon Online -2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami
		tsunami that struck the coasts of the Indian Ocean.
		A tsunami which causes damage far away from its source is sometimes called a "teletsunami", and is much more likely to be produced by vertical motion of the seabed than by horizontal motion.
		Tsunami detection is not easy because while a tsunami is in deep water it has little height and a network of sensors is needed to detect it.
	www.armageddononline.org /2004_indian_ocean_earthquake_tsunami.php (5468 words)

	Tsunami Factfile
		On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake—the largest earthquake in 40 years—ruptured in the Indian Ocean, off the northwest coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
		A tsunami (pronounced soo-NAHM-ee) is a series of huge waves that occur as the result of a violent underwater disturbance, such as an earthquake or volcanic eruption.
		Tsunami is the Japanese word for "harbor wave." They are sometimes mistakenly referred to as tidal waves, but tsunamis have nothing to do with the tides.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/tsunami.html (455 words)

	Tsunami FAQs From the International Tsunami Information Center — Infoplease.com
		The phenomenon we call tsunami is a series of large waves of extremely long wavelength and period usually generated by a violent, impulsive undersea disturbance or activity near the coast or in the ocean.
		In general, the energy of tsunami waves generated from landslides or rock falls is rapidly dissipated as they travel away from the source and across the ocean, or within an enclosed or semi-enclosed body of water—such as a lake or a fjord.
		Tsunami Factfile - The Indian Ocean tsunami that occured in December 2004 was the deadliest in history
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0930274.html (2949 words)

	pastorstaff.faithweb.com
		A tsunami which causes damage far away from its source is sometimes called a "teletsunami", and is much more likely to be produced by vertical motion of the seabed than by horizontal motion (Earthquakes and tsunamis, Lorca et al.).
		Tsunami detection is not easy because while a tsunami is in deep water it has a very low height and a network of sensors is needed to detect it.
		Although the extreme western edge of the "Ring of Fire" extends into the Indian Ocean (the point where this earthquake struck), no warning system exists in that ocean because tsunamis there are relatively rare; the last major one was caused by the Krakatoa eruption of 1883.
	pastorstaff.faithweb.com /earth5.html (1025 words)

	Timeline of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A large earthquake (measuring 9.3 on the Richter scale) occurred in the Indian Ocean near Sumatra, Indonesia, causing a large wave packet that started moving towards northeast and southwest.
		PTWC issued a third Tsunami Information Bulletin for this event informing the Pacific that small sea level fluctuations from the Indian Ocean tsunami were being observed in the Pacific, probably from energy that wrapped around south of Australia.
		Timeline of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake !
	www.tocatch.info /en/Asian_tsunami_:_Timeline.htm (781 words)

	2004 Indian Ocean earthquake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to Tad Murty, vice-president of the Tsunami Society, the total energy of the tsunami waves was equivalent to about five megatons of TNT (20 petajoules).
		The 2004 tsunami is the deadliest in recorded history.
		The December 26, 2004, Sumatra Earthquake and Indian Ocean Tsunami: Field Perspectives on the Impacts to the Peoples, Cultures, Politics, and Economies of One of the World's Most Vibrant Regions, Speaker: Tom Casadevall, September 26, 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake (7038 words)

	NOAA News Online (Story 2358)
		NOAA issued a bulletin indicating no threat of a tsunami to Hawaii, the West Coast of North America or to other coasts in the Pacific Basin—the area served by the existing tsunami warning system established by the Pacific rim countries and operated by NOAA in Hawaii.
		Below is the timeline of agency's actions once the undersea earthquake was detected by the NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii.
		PTWC issues a third tsunami information bulletin indicating small sea level fluctuations from the Indian Ocean tsunami are being observed in the Pacific Ocean, probably from tsunami energy that passed south of Australia.
	www.noaanews.noaa.gov /stories2004/s2358.htm (1371 words)

	APA News and Features
		Mapping the path of a tsunami allows planners to identify the structures and land areas that are likely to be affected by a tsunami, so that appropriate adjustments can be made in existing development patterns, and so that it is clear where people must move in order to get out of the way.
		Tsunamis rarely carry water inland more than a few hundred feet, and moving people even a half-mile inland will almost invariably save all but a few lives, and would surely have done so in most of the Indian Ocean communities.
		Although it is clear that the lack of a warning system in the Indian Ocean is a gross inadequacy that must be remedied, most coastal communities in the U.S. and other Pacific Ocean countries are far from having done all that is needed to reduce their own vulnerabilities through better design and land-use regulations.
	www.planning.org /features/2004/tsunami.htm (2229 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Tsunamis Work"
		On December 26, 2004, the world's most powerful earthquake in more than 40 years struck deep under the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Sumatra, triggering a massive tsunami.
		One of the things that made this event particularly destructive is that the tsunamis struck relatively well-populated areas in the middle of the tourist-packed holiday season.
		Tsunamis are detected by open-ocean buoys and coastal tide gauges, which report information to stations within the region.
	science.howstuffworks.com /tsunami2.htm (1244 words)

	timeline: tsunami disasters: 744 - 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Following is a chronology of tsunami events which resulted in the deaths of 50 or more people.
		A 7.1 offshore quake triggers a tsunami that strikes the northern coast of Papua-New Guinea.
		An 8.1 earthquake in the Andaman Sea triggers tsunami event on the East Coast of India and in the Andaman Sea.
	www.e11th-hour.org /resources/timelines/tsunamis.global.html (1785 words)

	NOAA News Online (Story 2358b)
		PTWC issued a bulletin providing information on the earthquake and stating there was no tsunami threat to the Pacific nations that participate in the Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific (ITSU).
		Indications are that the tsunami had already struck the entire area by this time, although we have not been able to obtain arrival times.
		on December 27 PTWC issued a third Tsunami Information Bulletin for this event informing the Pacific that small sea level fluctuations from the Indian Ocean tsunami were being observed in the Pacific, probably from energy that wrapped around south of Australia.
	www.noaanews.noaa.gov /stories2004/s2358b.htm (647 words)

	Waves of sadness
		But if we try to avoid God’s responsibility for the killer tsunami, and pass the event off as “natural” (read “truly random”) then we are doing the same thing—we have reduced God, the all-powerful Creator God who created countless galaxies in the blink of an eye, to a helpless or impotent bystander.
		So the question becomes much bigger; not just “why 9/11” or “why the tsunami tragedy”—it becomes one of “why is there any death and suffering at all?” And it has to be faced squarely by Christians, since we claim to have the answers to the true meaning of life, the universe and everything.
		The superquake that set off the recent Asian tsunami disaster is believed to have resulted from the sudden slippage of two tectonic plates in the earth’s crust.
	www.answersingenesis.org /docs2004/1230tsunami.asp (2506 words)

	Indian Ocean Tsunami - news @ nature.com - special coverage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The earthquake caused a powerful tsunami that devastated coastlines around the Indian Ocean.
		The sheer force of the Indian Ocean tsunami is shown in these satellite photos.
		The lack of preparation for last month's tsunami illustrates shocking disparities in how science is applied in different regions of the world.
	www.nature.com /news/specials/tsunami (763 words)

	After the tsunami - GSK in focus - GlaxoSmithKline
		Almost two years after the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster, GlaxoSmithKline is helping to rebuild communities and support healthcare schemes that help people to rebuild their lives.
		The Aceh province of Indonesia was one of the hardest hit areas in the whole of the Indian Ocean.
		The Indian Ocean tsunami disaster of 26 December 2004 is believed to be the deadliest tsunami in recorded history.
	www.gsk.com /infocus/tsunami.htm (1106 words)

	[No title]
		The humanitarian response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was prompted by one of the worst natural disasters of modern times.
		On 26 December the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, struck off the northwest coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, spawned a tsunami that wreaked havoc along much of the rim of the Indian Ocean.
		Assuming that the aftershock area represents the tsunami source, the tsunami propagation was computed.
	www.lycos.com /info/earthquake--indian-ocean-earthquake.html (483 words)

	WHOI : Oceanus : Throwing DART Buoys into the Ocean
		The tsunami monitoring-network proposed by the Bush Administration will include 36 buoys in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, four of which are already operating.
		The BPR records changes in the pressure of seawater on the ocean floor, detecting tsunami waves as small as 1 centimeter.
		Before the December 2004 tsunami, NOAA had plans to install 20 buoys by 2011.
	www.whoi.edu /oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=5420 (391 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It's expected to take four years to rebuild much of the parts of south Asia that was hit by the Dec. 26, 2004 tsunami — longer in the hardest hit areas of Bandeh Aceh, Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
		Between 49,622 and 50,533 people remain unaccounted for around the Indian Ocean.
		The total number of dead may never be known because of the number of people swept out to sea.
	www.cbc.ca /10th/timelineContent/20041226_disaster.html (92 words)

	Independent Media Center \| www.indymedia.org \| ((( i )))
		I'd rig it in the Indian ocean area, because there is nothing in the way of warning systems.
		The bouy sensors would have also notified about the tsunami, but most likely the earthquake was registered at the epicenter hours before the wave arrived and a warning could have been sent just as easily with enough time for people to evacuate..
		Congress will investigate why the US government did not notify some nations lining the Indian Ocean of early indications that a deadly tsunami might be headed their way, a spokeswoman for Senator Olympia Snowe, Republican of Maine, said yesterday.
	www.indymedia.org /or/2004/12/112671.shtml (8509 words)

	Wired News: Tsunami Alarm System: Slow Build
		BANGKOK, Thailand -- Within weeks of the devastating 2004 quake and tsunami, governments across the Indian Ocean vowed to establish a warning system that would protect their coastal residents from another disaster.
		They hope to come away from the U.N. meeting with a timeline for implementing the network -- at least two years away -- and detailed plans from the 27 affected countries for disseminating alerts and evacuating the public.
		There are now 23 monitoring stations across the Indian Ocean that can quickly measure the strength of underwater quakes and assess the tsunami threat.
	www.wired.com /news/wireservice/0,71494-0.html?tw=rss.index (926 words)

	IOC: Towards a Tsunami Warning System in the Indian Ocean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Sessions included post-tsunami survey results from the 26 December 2004 tsunami, countermeasures and other structural and non-structural mitigations, the role of education in mitigation, and tools to estimate tsunamis and damage.
		(ii) 19 January 2005 (0900-1200): Promotion of tsunami disaster mitigation in the Indian Ocean – towards establishment of tsunami early warning systems in the Indian Ocean by sharing experiences in the Pacific Ocean.
		This was followed by a keynote speech by Dr Laura Kong, Director of the International Tsunami Information Center (ITIC), and reports on the operation of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in the Pacific by Dr. C.McCreery (USA) and Mr.
	www.ineter.gob.ni /geofisica/tsunami/indotsunami/kobe_jan05.htm (516 words)

	Indonesia, Sri Lanka Timeline, 21st Century
		In 2004 tsunami swept across the Indian Ocean
		The December 26 earthquake and tsunami killed 166,320 people in Indonesia.
		People across Asia are flocking to morgues seeking lost loved ones after tsunamis swept across the Indian Ocean
	www.mapreport.com /2countries/indonesia.sri_lanka.html (136 words)

	Tsunami
		How a massive earthquake in the Indian Ocean triggered sea surges and the deaths of thousands of people.
		This World-Wide Web site was originally developed in 1995 by Benjamin Cook while he was a master's student in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Washington.
		Links to related web pages, tsunami resource centers, tsunami research centers, related science, movies, animations and simulations, disaster centers and preparedness, and other museums and visitor information from the Pacific Tsunami Museum in Hilo, Hawaii.
	fte.eanes.k12.tx.us /CurrentEvents/Tsunami.htm (292 words)

	MIT Timeline: 2004
		Tsunami devastates Indian Ocean countries, killing over 200,000
		Jason Szuminski ’01 is first MIT alumnus to play major league baseball after graduating
		MIT professor Frank Wilczek wins 2004 Nobel Prize in physics for "colorful" discovery in world of quarks
	web.mit.edu /timeline/04.html (107 words)

	CNN.com Specials
		The world's most powerful earthquake in more than 40 years struck deep under the Indian Ocean on December 26, triggering massive tsunamis that obliterated cities, seaside communities and holiday resorts, killing tens of thousands of people in a dozen countries.
		As the region moves forward with reconstruction and recovery, efforts are also under way to maintain donations and relief, establish long-term strategies and develop early-warning systems so another disaster may be avoided.
		• Bush seeks $950 million in tsunami aid
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2004/tsunami.disaster (150 words)

	CNN.com - Special Reports - After the Tsunami
		For the past six months, survivors of December's devastating Indian Ocean tsunamis have struggled to cope with life after the deadliest waves in recorded history swept away a great swathe of humanity, including entire towns and villages.
		From Indonesia's Aceh region, the Thai resort areas of Phuket and Khao Lak, and the southern coastlines of Sri Lanka, governments, aid agencies and communities are trying to rebuild lives, homes and livelihoods -- at times in the face of corruption and red tape -- as they bid to gain a sense of normality.
		• How safe is the Indian Ocean region?
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2005/tsunami.aftermath (175 words)

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