The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was one of the deadliest natural disasters in history. An undersea earthquake near Sumatra triggered a series of devastating tsunamis that impacted coastal areas around the Indian Ocean. Over 230,000 people were killed in multiple countries, with Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand hit especially hard. The tsunami caused widespread damage through the immense force of the waves and carried debris that destroyed homes, ports, roads, and fishing vessels. International aid efforts mobilized over $14 billion for relief and recovery in the affected regions.

1. The 2004 Indian
ocean TSUNAMI
PREPARED BY
SAGAR S KURDE
GIRISH P KULKARNI
GANESH A NAVLE

2. INTRODUCTION
• TSUNAMI - The term tsunami comes from
the Japanese 津波 ,composed of two
kanji 津 (tsu) meaning "harbor" and 波 (nami),
meaning "wave".
• It is the most dangerous natural disaster.
• In 2004 Sumatra earthquake generated
tsunami was most destructuve in the history
of mankind ever recorded.

3. TSUNAMI Generation
• By Seismicity - The under sea earthquake that
was caused by Subduction and started as a
series of devastating tsunamis along the
coasts.
• By landslides - extremely large landslides from
volcanic island collapses can generate
tsunamis that can cross oceans.
• Meteotsunami - tsunami like wave formation
of meteorological origin.

4. Cause of damage
• When the wave enters shallow water, it slows down and its amplitude
(height) increases.
• the smashing force of a wall of water travelling at high speed, and the
destructive power of a large volume of water draining off the land and
carrying all with it, even if the wave did not look large.
• When wave reaches the land it gets elevation and it can reach upto hieght
of 10 m.

5. The boxing day
• Subduction process between Indian plate and
Burma plate cause stresses.
• On the morning of December 26, the strain
reached its limit, and the Burma Plate separated
from the India Plate, snapping upward.
• This produced large disturbance in the ocean
near Sumatra.
• The rupture began off the Sumatran coast and
spread northwest at an estimated 6,300 miles per
hour.

6. Causes of powerful tsunami
• the power of the earthquake, which was determined to be
about a magnitude 9.2.It is the 2nd largest earthquake ever
recorded.
• The energy released was 3,000 times that of the first atomic
bomb. This sudden release of energy caused the entire planet
to wobble momentarily on its axis.
• The quake occurred in a relatively shallow portion of the
Indian Ocean, 19 miles below the surface .Eartquakes
occurred in deep ocean hardly generate tsunami.

7. Travellling of tsunami waves

8. Affected Countries
• Indonesia , Sri Lanka ,Thailand ,India ,Somalia,
Myanmar, Maldeves, Malysia, Bangladesh, Tanzania,
South Africa, Madagascar, Yemen
• Tourists from all over world also got affected.
• Total Deaths Occurred - 2,30,187
• Total Injured – 1,25,000(approx.)
• Total missing – 45,752(Confirmed)
• Total displaced – 16,90,000(approx.)

9. Effects On INDIA
• Affected states and Union teritories
Andaman and Nicobar islands, Pondicherry,
Tamilnadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh
• Coastal area affected – 2700 kms.
• Deaths Occurred – 18,045
• Missing – 6,000(approx.)
• Displaced – 6,50,000(approx.)

10. Performance of Structures
• Housing
Houses upto 300 m. away from sea totally destroyed.
Even upto 1 km. houses were spoiled by the tsunami.
• Ports
Ports also damaged because of sand carried by waves.
• Roads and railways significantly
damged by waves

11. Effects on Fishing industry
• The greatest damage was suffered by the
fishing industry.
• Boats damaged or lost in india – 65,343.
• Most of the coastal population lost their
livelihood.
• Most of the fishermen in affected areas lost
their fishing nets and advised not to catch
fishes untill sea is stabled.

12. Helping Out
• Helping hand came from all over the world.
Charity funds were organized in large amount.
• Nations all over the world provided over
US$14 billion in aid for damaged regions.
• Organizations like UNO,World bank, Euro
nations and various social groups came
forward in relief work.

13. India’s assistance with other affected
countries
• The Indian Ministry of External Affairs, along with the Indian defence forces and
Home Ministry, is coordinating relief operations to Sri
Lanka, Maldives and Indonesia.
• Operation Castor (assistance to Maldives)
• Three vessels have been launched for Male.
• INS Mysore (two helicopters, reaching Male on 20 Dec 2004)
• INS Udaygiri (one helicopter, reaching Male on 29 Dec 2004)
• INS Aditya (one helicopter carrying water and a water purification plant, medical
teams, reaching Male on 30 Dec 2004)
•
• Operation Rainbow (assistance to Sri Lanka)
• INS Sharda
• INS Sutlej
• Operation Ghambir (assistance to Indonesia)
• INS Nirupak - The hospital ship left for Sumatra, Indonesia on 30 Dec 2004. It was
carrying emergency rations, medicines, tents and first aid kits. It had 10 officers
and 240 sailors on board.

14. Blogs and websites
for relief work
• Tsunamihelp - News and information about resources, aid, donations and
volunteer efforts by a volunteer team of bloggers.
• Donateindia.com - Well organized lists of all essential information related to Indian
relief efforts.
• TrueNorthFoundation - Reports of relief work and help required from
Nagapattinam.
• Tsunamivictims.org - Contact numbers and Contributions towards the relief
efforts.
• Tsunami Locator - list of resources to support the those searching for missing
persons.
• Tsunami Help India - spun off from Sumankumar's yak pad out of Chennai, India
• Post seismic - Post Seismic deformation of Andaman & Nicobar Island
• AsianTsunami.org - A forum dedicated to the support of the on-going disaster
relief work.
•
•

15. Warnings and Prediction
• The tsunami warning system has been
established in indian ocean.
• All the research authorities on tsunami are
connected to each other.

16. Thank YOU
!!!!!!!!