On christmas day 2004 when stuart weinstein s pager buzzed in the operations room at the pacific tsunami warning center in hawaii. A tsunami is a series of waves and the first wave may not be the most dangerous.
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Seismic waves from an earthquake off the coast.
The christmas day tsunami. A tsunami wave train may come as surges five minutes to an hour apart. Now that the waves have subsided what lessons can we learn. It was 3 00 p m.
The magnitude 9 1 quake ruptured a 900 mile stretch of fault line where the indian and australian tectonic plates meet. The cycle may be marked by repeated. The earthquake was caused by a rupture along the fault between the burma plate and the indian plate.
A powerful undersea earthquake that struck off the coast of sumatra island indonesia set off the 2004 indian ocean tsunami also known as the christmas or boxing day tsunami on sunday morning dec. An earthquake occurred and builded up the deep undersea level for hundreds of years. It finally let loose on december 26.
On the day after christmas 2004 we were shocked to view the devastation and human heartbreak as a major tsunami hit the coastlines of the indian ocean nations and numerous pacific islands leaving untold misery in its wake. It was an undersea megathrust earthquake that registered a magnitude of 9 1 9 3 mw reaching a mercalli intensity up to ix in certain areas. What caused the christmas day tsunami.
Over the next seven hours a tsunami a series of immense ocean waves triggered by the quake reached out across the indian ocean devastating coastal areas as far away as east africa. Authorities in indonesia where a 9 1 magnitude quake sparked the tsunami weren t able to send out an. It was at high speed.
When the indian ocean tsunami struck on dec. On december 26 2004 at 7 59 am local time an undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 9 1 struck off the coast of the indonesian island of sumatra. 26 2004 no one saw the massive waves coming.
It was 2004 the day after christmas and thousands of european and american tourists had flocked to the beaches of thailand sri lanka and indonesia to escape the winter chill in a tropical.
