The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which had a magnitude of 9.15, triggered a series of lethal tsunamis on December 26, 2004 that killed approximately 275,000 people (more than 168,000 in Indonesia alone), making it the deadliest tsunami in recorded history. The tsunami killed people over an area ranging from the immediate vicinity of the quake in Indonesia, Thailand and the north-western coast of Malaysia to thousands of kilometres away in Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and even as far as Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania in eastern Africa. The disaster prompted a huge worldwide effort to help victims of the tragedy, with billions of dollars being raised for disaster relief. Here are some links to other Tsunami Recources:
- Tsunami Survivor Stories
- Armageddon Online: The
Truth About the End of the World
News and Reports - ABC News Online – Asian Tsunami Disaster
- CNN – Special: Tsunami Disaster
- New York Times – Complete USA
- CBC News – Indepth: Disaster in Asia
- BBC News – In-Depth Report: Tsunami Disaster
- Sydney Morning Herald – Waves of Devastation Australia
- The Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake of 26 December 2004
- Wikipedia:
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
Scientific Reports- A Flying Start, Then a Slow Slip
- IRIS Seismic Monitor
- NOAA — NOAA and the Indian Ocean Tsunami
- Pacific Geoscience Center — Canada
- Periodically Triggered Seismicity at Mount Wrangell, Alaska, After the Sumatra Earthquake
- PMEL
- Researchers Track Underwater Noise Generated by December 26 Earthquake
- Tsunami Laboratory, Novosibirsk
- USGS — FAQ
- USGS — Magnitude 9.0 @ Northern Sumatra
Seismograms- Rapid Earthquake Viewer
- Seismic
record of the event as measured in Hungary
Website Press Coverage- BBC: V-LOGGING report
- CBC: Tsunami survivors and anxious relatives turn to web
- CMI (Brasil): Tsunami: omissão criminosa de acadêmicos?
- CTV: Web plays crucial role in tsunami aftermath
- CTV: Web plays crucial role in tsunami aftermath
- Forbes: Three Trends for 2005
- France5 (France): Touristes et internautes dépassent les journalistes
- Franceculture (French): Une catastrophe historique
- ITNews (Slovak Republic): Fotografie a videá tsunami zaplavili internet
- LEXPRESS (France): Les blogs au coeur des tsunami
- MSN (Denmark): Internet-Blogs für Betroffene
- MSNBC: Science save us
- National Business Review: Tsunami blogging The curl in the wave, first hand
- NetWorld (Austria): Internet und Handy als Nothelfer: Weblogs schildern die Katastrophe aus erster Hand
- StavanagerAvisen (Norway): Tsunami-videoer på nett
- Suman Kumar: Great Resouce For Pics And Videos
- Telerama (French): Blogs, SMS et services d'échanges en font le média le plus réactif.
- The Age: How citizen reporters get the news out first
- The Australian Times: Incredible action photos and video footage of tsunami
- The Jerusalem Post: Wave of Destruction
- The Sydney Morning Herald: Blogs' offer the world a fresh view
- The Sydney Morning Herald: Spotlight on … bloggers
- Times Online: Tsunami weblinks guide
- Wall Street Journal: Video Blogs Break Out
- Washington Post: Tsunami Prompts Online Outpouring
- ZDNet (Germany): Tsunami-Videos boomen in Blogs
