Real story behind The Impossible: Miracle survival of family who inspired new tsunami movie starring Naomi Watts. Surrounded by her loving family as she relaxed by the pool on a dream holiday, Maria Belon felt she must be the luckiest woman in the world.
Seconds later, Maria and her terrified husband and three sons were swept away by a ferocious 30ft wall of water that devoured everything in its path. Maria was horrifically wounded as she was dragged under water by the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami of Boxing Day 2004. After being submerged for more than three minutes, she finally surfaced and clung on to a tree. She was petrified, alone and convinced she was dying – but in a miracle that has inspired new film The Impossible, the mum and her family survived. Moments before paradise was smashed to bits, Maria was on a lounger at the Orchid Resort Hotel in Thailand while her boys, Lucas, 10, Tomas, eight, and Simon, five, were playing nearby with their dad.
“We couldn’t see the wave,” says Maria, who is a doctor. Getty “We started to hear a very horrible sound. "No one recognised the sound. Pages - Tsunami. A tsunami is most often triggered by undersea earthquakes that cause massive changes to the ocean floor.
50 Interesting Facts about Tsunami. Learning Zone Class Clips - The Asian tsunami: causes and effects - Geography Video. The Boxing Day Tsunami - Facts and Figures. 11 Facts About the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. What does "tsunami" mean? How to Prepare For and Be Safe During a Tsunami. Before and During a Tsunami Know your local community's suggested evacuation routes to safe areas, where shelter can be provided while you await the "all clear".Be prepared to survive on your own for at least three days.
To do this, you should prepare an emergency kit for your home and car, along with a portable one.Consider taking a first aid course and learn survival skills.Tune to a radio station that serves your area and listen for instructions from emergency officials. Follow these instructions and wait for the "all clear" before returning to the coast. Stay away from the beach – do not go down to watch a tsunami come.
Move inland to higher ground immediately and stay there.If there is a noticeable recession in the water away from the shoreline, this is considered “nature’s tsunami warning” and you should move away immediately. After a Tsunami Stay away from flooded and damaged areas until officials say it is safe to go back. 50 Interesting Facts about Tsunami. Tsunami Facts for Kids - Interesting Information about Tsunamis. Survive a Tsunami. Steps Part 1 of 4: Preparing in Advance 1Learn about the potential for danger in advance.
It is important to consider in advance whether or not you live somewhere that could potentially face a tsunami. It is likely that you are at some risk if: Your home, school, or workplace is in a coastal region, near the sea.The elevation of your home, school or workplace is at sea level or fairly low and on flat or only slightly undulating land. If you don't know the elevation level of your home, school or workplace, find out. 4Develop an evacuation plan. Part 2 of 4: Recognizing the Telltale Tsunami Signs 1Be especially careful after an earthquake. 4Heed community and government warnings. Part 3 of 4: Evacuating After a Tsunami Hits 1Abandon belongings. 5React quickly if you are caught up in the water. Five of world's biggest tsunamis - 1883 Krakatoa tsunami. Tsunami Safety Tips, Tsunami Preparation, Tsunami Readiness.
Tsunami - How a Tsunami Happens. The term tsunami has its origins in the Japanese language; an English equivalent is "seismic sea waves.
" Tsunamis are often incorrectly interchanged with the term" tidal waves," which refer to high waves of water caused by changes in the flow and surge of the ocean. Tsunamis, on the other hand, can be caused by a few different means: 1) the down drop or upthurst of the Earth’s crust which results in an earthquake; 2) a large-scale undersea landslide; 3) a submarine volcanic eruption of a certain degree; or potentially, 4) a large meteor impact at sea. The vast majority of tsunamis result from earthquakes. 1720 feet-tall - Lituya Bay, Alaska. (As reported by Don J. Miller in United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 354-C, Giant Waves in Lituya Bay, Alaska, 1960) Account of Howard G. Ulrich Mr. Ulrich and his 7-year-old son, on the Edrie, entered Lituya Bay about 8:00 p.m. and anchored in about 5 fathoms of water in a small cove on the south shore. Tsunami. A tsunami (plural: tsunamis or tsunami; from Japanese: 津波, lit.
"harbour wave";[1] English pronunciation: /suːˈnɑːmi/ soo-NAH-mee or /tsuːˈnɑːmi/ tsoo-NAH-mee[2]) is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water, generally an ocean or a large lake. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions (including detonations of underwater nuclear devices), landslides, glacier calvings, meteorite impacts and other disturbances above or below water all have the potential to generate a tsunami.[3] The Greek historian Thucydides suggested in his late 5th century BC, History of the Peloponnesian War, that tsunamis were related to submarine earthquakes,[5][6] but the understanding of a tsunami's nature remained slim until the 20th century and much remains unknown.
Etymology. The Pacific Tsunami Museum. 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea megathrust earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on Sunday, 26 December 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia.
The quake itself is known by the scientific community as the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake.[5][6] The resulting tsunami was given various names, including the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, South Asian tsunami, Indonesian tsunami, the Christmas tsunami and the Boxing Day tsunami.[7] The earthquake was caused when the Indian Plate was subducted by the Burma Plate and triggered a series of devastating tsunamis along the coasts of most landmasses bordering the Indian Ocean, killing over 230,000 people in fourteen countries, and inundating coastal communities with waves up to 30 meters (100 ft) high.[8] It was one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history.
Indonesia was the hardest-hit country, followed by Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand. Earthquake characteristics Tectonic plates Energy released.