Thailand tsunami

1. Thailand tsunami
Boxing Day 2004
By: Cynthia García, Anna
García,Aitor Carretero and Marc
Guerrero.

2. What is a tsunami?
● An unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or
underseavolcanic eruption.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-12709850
(17:56)

3. How works a tsunami?
A tsunami is a series of waves travelling across the ocean due to
a sudden displacement of a large body of water. This
displacement can be caused by events such as undersea
earthquakes, undersea landslides, land sliding into the ocean,
volcanic eruptions or even asteroid impacts.

4. What Happened?
● In Boxing Day (26th December) 2004 a tsunami hit the coast
of Asia and killed over 230.000 people.

5. And after the tsunami?
● Ten years after, the tourism grow it again, arriving at the
same people that was when the tsunami occurred.

6. The Impossible
● The accident with the tsunami inspired a film directed by
Juan Antonio Bayona, called “Lo imposible” (The Impossible)
based in the experience of María Belón and her family in the
2004 Thailand tsunami.
● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO-Ew0p7nfI

7. Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J8Feyr
38Ss

8. WEBGRAPHY
- PHOTOS: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-12709850 (17:56)
- VIDEOS:
● Trailer “The Imposible” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO-Ew0p7nfI (17:59)

9. THE END