GREAT SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE-INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI DECEMBER 26, 2004

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GREAT SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE-INDIAN OCEAN
TSUNAMIDECEMBER 26, 2004

• FACTS ABOUT THE TSUNAMI RELIEF AND REBUILDING
  EFFORT
• DECEMBER 26, 2005

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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.

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13 AFFECTED COUNTRIES

• Indonesia
• Sri Lanka
• India
• Thailand
• Madagascar
• Maldives
• Malaysia

• Myanmar
• Seychelles
• Somalia
• Tanzania
• Kenya
• Bangladesh

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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 31

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FACTS

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

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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.

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FACTS

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

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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.

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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?