2004 Tsunami facts
While investigating facts about 2004 Tsunami, I found out little known, but curios details like:
One of the few coastal areas to evacuate ahead of the 2004 tsunami was on the island of Simeulue. Due to island folklore recounting an earthquake/tsunami in 1907, the islanders fled inland following the initial shaking. Generational folklore saving the lives of the islanders 97 years later.
During the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami on 26 December 2004, fishermen said they saw with their own eyes "the reality of generations of legends . . . the remains of ancient temples and hundreds of refrigerator-sized blocks, all briefly exposed before the sea swallowed them up again."
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 50 of the best facts about 2004 Tsunami I managed to collect.
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Cristiano Ronaldo funded the education of a 7 y.o. survivor of the horrific 2004 tsunami in Indonesia. The boy was found 21 days after the disaster, alone and wearing a Portuguese national football team jersey. The boy grew up to be a football player and was signed by Sporting Lisbon last year
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About Tilly Smith who, at age 10, helped save her family and hundreds of tourists in Thailand from the 2004 tsunami by recognizing warning signs of a tsunami that she had learned in her geography class two weeks earlier.
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Cristiano Ronaldo funded the education of a 7 Y.O survivor of the horrific 2004 tsunami in Indonesia. The boy was found 21 days after the disaster, alone and wearing a Portuguese national football team jersey. The boy grew up to be a football player and was signed by Sporting Lisbon last year
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The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami which occurred 10 years ago today is the biggest national tragedy in Sweden's modern history even though it occurred in Asia. They lost more citizens (543) than any other western country.
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Finland's current president was in Thailand during the 2004 tsunami. He survived by climbing up an utility pole with his son.
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Tilly Smith, 10 years old British schoolgirl, saved her family and 100 other tourists from the 2004 Asian tsunami, by recognizing signs of tsunamis she had learned in a geography lesson two weeks before.
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A 10 year girl saved hundreds of people during the Thailand Boxing day Tsunami of 2004 after learning about the warning signs of Tsunami 2 weeks prior.
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Scuba divers caught in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami were reportedly tossed around underwater, yet boats floating above were unaffected and failed to notice the wave as it passed by.
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Finlands current president survived 2004 tsunami in Thailand by climbing a utility pole with his son.
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The earthquake that caused the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami generated 9,600 gigatons of energy, equal to 550 million Hiroshima explosions - source
10 years ago Petra Němcová was caught in the 2004 Tsunami in Thailand. She managed to hold onto a palm tree, for eight hours and sustained a broken pelvis and serious internal injuries while her then fiancé Simon Atlee drowned. - source
The tsunami that occurred in 2004 resulted in 1.5% of the seagrass habitat along the Andaman Sea coasts being destroyed.
A tsunami in the Indian Ocean in 2004 resulted in the deaths of more than 226,000 people.
A 10 year old British girl on vacation with her family is credited with saving 100 people after recognizing the signs of an impending tsunami during the 2004 Indian Ocean Disaster
After the Mexico 1985 earthquake, a group of youth founded "Tlatelolco Moles", who currently send aid to major disasters like 9/11, Haiti, 2004 Indian Tsunami, etc.
In 2004 a tsunami hit an overcrowded passenger train in Sri Lanka. More than 1700 people were killed. This was the worst rail disaster in history.
Before the 2004 tsunami, a 10yo tourist named Tilly Smith recognized the warning signs (receding ocean, frothing bubbles) because she had learned about tsunamis in school two weeks before. She told her parents, who spread the word and evacuated the beach before the wave hit.
Earthquakes have occurred in the Andaman Sea because it is the boundary of the Sunda and Burma tectonic plates. The earthquake in 2004 was 9.3 magnitude and resulted in the tsunami that killed roughly 280,000 people along the Indian Ocean's coastal regions.
The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami decreased the length of a day by 2.68 microseconds, caused the Earth to lose some of it's oblateness, made the North Pole shift 2.5 centimeters East, and changed the Earth's rotation.
