When was tsunami 2004

We began a cash-for-work scheme, and provided long-term care for orphans. We also trained more than midwives, provided food packages to 17, families, and donated buses to help the government transport displaced people.

We helped orphanages and boarding schools to create reliable living through aquaculture, vegetable and poultry farming activities. The orphanages used the ongoing income to improve living conditions and the learning environment for children enrolled there.

At the beginning just after the tsunami disaster, we lived with serious uncertainty. We had no source of income and we were living in an emergency tent. Islamic Relief intervened and sponsored Suleiman, offering financial support to his family so they could afford essential items, food and allow him to gain an education.

I had become an orphan not by choice, but it is a fact of life. They have been very helpful and we see a lot of change in our lives, and the prospect of a brighter future. Caritas is part of Caritas Internationalis, one of the largest humanitarian networks in the world.

United Nations: Five years after Indian Ocean tsunami, affected nations rebuilding better Five years after the massive Indian Ocean tsunami, which left a devastating trail of death and destruction, millions of people have benefited from the influx of aid by rebuilding stronger infrastructure, social services and disaster warning systems than existed before the catastrophe, according to the United Nations agencies at the core of the recovery effort.

Oxfam: The Indian Ocean Tsunami, 10 Years On Lessons from the response and ongoing humanitarian funding challenges The Indian Ocean tsunami was a pivotal moment for the humanitarian sector; many lessons were learned and the humanitarian system was strengthened as a result. However, ten years on, significant challenges remain. Where did the Indian Ocean tsunami aid money go? But where was it spent?

And what was it spent on? The death toll in Thailand was nearly 5, including 2, foreign tourists. An hour later, on the opposite side of the Indian Ocean, the waves struck the southeastern coast of India near the city of Chennai, pushing debris-choked water kilometers inland and killing more than 10, people, mostly women and children, since many of the men were out fishing.

But some of the worst devastation was reserved for the island nation of Sri Lanka, where more than 30, people were swept away by the waves and hundreds of thousands left homeless. He credits the unsparing destructiveness of the Indian Ocean tsunami on the raw power of the earthquake that spawned it. The quake originated in a so-called megathrust fault, where heavy oceanic plates subduct beneath lighter continental plates.

The quake ruptured a mile stretch along the Indian and Australian plates 31 miles below the ocean floor. Rather than delivering one violent jolt, the quake lasted an unrelenting 10 minutes, releasing as much pent-up power as several thousand atomic bombs.

In the process, massive segments of the ocean floor were forced upward an estimated 30 or 40 meters up to feet. Titov emphasizes that tsunamis look nothing like the giant surfing break-style waves that many of us imagine. An earthquake and tsunami of the magnitude that struck in is so rare that catastrophic tsunamis are all but unknown in the long cultural histories of India and Sri Lanka, explains Jose Borrero, a tsunami researcher with the University of Southern California and director of eCoast , a marine consultancy based in New Zealand.