Witness to Disaster: Tsunamis

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National Kids Geographic. Witness to Disaster: Tsunamis

Tsunamis

Tsunamis

JUDITH BLOOM FRADIN & DENNIS BRINDELL FRADIN

CONTENTS

Introduction: Japan Tsunami

CHAPTER 1 “Like Niagara Falls Moving Towards Us” Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004

CHAPTER 2 “A Wave 800 Feet Tall” Tsunami Science

CHAPTER 3 “Everything Had Become Sea” Some Historic Tsunamis

CHAPTER 4 “Out of the Blue” Tsunami Warnings and Safety

Glossary

Further Reading and Research

Bibliography

Interviews by the Authors

Acknowledgments

Index

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WITNESS TO DISASTER

—Lao Tzu,

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An hour after Indonesia was devastated, waves began to barrage beaches in southern Thailand. On Maikhao Beach in Phuket, Thailand, a ten-year-old schoolgirl from England was vacationing with her parents and seven-year-old sister. Two weeks earlier, in geography class, Tilly Smith had learned about how earthquakes trigger tsunamis. Tilly had been impressed by the fact that, before a tsunami wave strikes, the sea sometimes recedes from the shore.

That Sunday morning, the day after Christmas, Tilly was on the beach with her family when she noticed something odd. “There were bubbles and the tide went out all of a sudden,” she later explained. Remembering her geography lessons, Tilly warned her family that a tsunami wave might be coming. As the Smiths left the beach, they told other tourists to also seek higher ground. Thanks to Tilly’s warning, by the time the giant waves struck, Maikhao Beach had been evacuated, and no lives were lost there.

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