2005 Tsunami facts?

Question

Do any of you have some facts about the tsunami of 2005?

i really need some for a school project

Answer 1

try goin  on gogle and serch i did that and found info to lazy to copy and paste

Answer 2

Several islands moved a few meters (1meter=40inches). The entire island of Sumatra (part of Indonesia) moved several meters, the island is 1800km/1120miles long.

Magnitude: Magnitude 9 "megathrust"

Scale of slippage: 30 kilometres below the seafloor, a 1200 km stretch of the Indian plate was thrust up to 20 metres under the Burma plate, raising the seafloor by several metres

Historical ranking: The fourth largest since 1900 and the world's biggest since a magnitude 9.2 earthquake struck Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1964

Epicentre locality: 250 km south-south-east of Banda Aceh, Indonesia and 1600 km north-west of Jakarta

Energy released: Equivalent to the explosion of 475,000 kilotons of TNT, or 23,000 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs

Height and speed of tsunamis: In the open ocean, just 50 centimetres high but travelling at up to 800 km/h. However, the wave s grew and slowed as the sea shallowed towards coasts. Waves were up to 10 metres on the coastline of Sumatra near the epicentre, 4 metres in Thailand, Sri Lanka and Somalia

Distance waves travelled inland: Up to 2000 metres

Number of countries damaged: 13, including Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, The Maldives and Somalia

Disaster and humanitarian crisis statistics

Number of people killed: Latest figures indicate at least 226,000 dead, including 166,000 in Indonesia, 38,000 in Sri Lanka, 16, 000 in India 5300 in Thailand and 5000 foreign tourists

Number of people injured: Over 500,000

Potential additional deaths from infectious diseases 150,000

Number of people affected: Up to 5 million people lost homes, or access to food and water

Number of children affected : Around a third of the dead are children, and 1.5 million have been wounded, displaced or lost families

Number of people left without the means to make a living: One million

Number of World Heritage Sites destroyed or damaged: Five, including: the Old Town of Galle in Sri Lanka, the Tropical Rainforest of Sumatra in Indonesia and the Sun Temples of Konarak in India

Estimated cost of tsunami early warning technology in Indian Ocean: $20 million

Estimated cost of aid and reconstruction following tsunami: $7.5 billion

Total international aid promised to Tsunami-ravaged nations $7 billion

Date of last major tsunami in the Indian Ocean: 1945

Answer 3

Here's a few:

http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/tsunami...

It also released as much energy as all the ammunition used in WWII did, including the two A-bombs.