Observed Reconstruction of Houses in Aceh Seven Months after the Great Sumatra Earthquake and Indian Ocean Tsunami of December 2004

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 803-818 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teddy Boen
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Indian Ocean Tsunami ◽  
Sumatra Earthquake ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Earthquake Resistant ◽  
The World ◽  
Rescue And Relief ◽  
Relief Efforts

The 26 December 2004 earthquake ( Mw=9.2) that shook Aceh and the subsequent tsunami catastrophe was one of the worst natural disasters in modern history. The world—governments and people—responded with unprecedented generosity in solidarity with the rescue and relief efforts of the affected communities and local and national authorities. This response has been very useful in reducing or mitigating the consequences of the disaster, and particularly in speeding the current recovery and reconstruction efforts. In the wake of the recovery and reconstruction of houses in Aceh, many NGOs and donors tried to introduce house types that defy the local culture with respect to earthquake-resistant houses and that also neglect social problems.

Response and Recovery in India after the December 2004 Great Sumatra Earthquake and Indian Ocean Tsunami

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 731-758 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. V. R. Murty ◽  
Sudhir K. Jain ◽  
Alpa R. Sheth ◽  
Arvind Jaiswal ◽  
Suresh R. Dash
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Indian Ocean Tsunami ◽  
Sumatra Earthquake ◽  
Andaman And Nicobar Islands ◽  
2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami ◽  
Relief Work ◽  
Response And Recovery ◽  
Nicobar Islands ◽  
The Government ◽  
Rescue And Relief

The rescue and relief work undertaken in the Andaman and Nicobar islands and in mainland India after the 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was massive. A number of new initiatives undertaken by the government and nongovernmental agencies were innovative and successful. Also, since the tsunami was not a typical disaster for India, it raised a number of new concerns related to reconstruction along the coast.

Myanmar Coastal Area Field Survey after the December 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 285-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tint Lwin Swe ◽  
Kenji Satake ◽  
Than Tin Aung ◽  
Yuki Sawai ◽  
Yukinobu Okamura ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Real Time ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Coastal Area ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
Indian Ocean Tsunami ◽  
Sumatra Earthquake ◽  
The West ◽  
Tide Level ◽  
The Indian Ocean

A post-tsunami survey was conducted along the Myanmar coast two months after the 2004 Great Sumatra earthquake ( Mw=9.0) that occurred off the west coast of Sumatra and generated a devastating tsunami around the Indian Ocean. Visual observations, measurements, and a survey of local people's experiences with the tsunami indicated some reasons why less damage and fewer casualties occurred in Myanmar than in other countries around the Indian Ocean. The tide level at the measured sites was calibrated with reference to a real-time tsunami datum, and the tsunami tide level range was 2–3 m for 22 localities in Myanmar. The tsunami arrived three to four hours after the earthquake.

Landscape Changes in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India) after the December 2004 Great Sumatra Earthquake and Indian Ocean Tsunami

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 43-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javed N. Malik ◽  
C. V. R. Murty ◽  
Durgesh C. Rai
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Plate Tectonics ◽  
Tsunami Wave ◽  
Indian Ocean Tsunami ◽  
Sumatra Earthquake ◽  
Landscape Changes ◽  
Andaman And Nicobar Islands ◽  
Nicobar Islands ◽  
Reconnaissance Surveys

Plate tectonics after the 26 December 2004 Great Sumatra earthquake resulted in major topological changes in the Andaman and Nicobar islands. Aerial and land reconnaissance surveys of those islands after the earthquake provide evidence of spectacular plate tectonics that took place during the earthquake. Initial submergence of the built environment and the subsequent inundation upon arrival of the tsunami wave, as well as emergence of the new beaches along the islands—particularly on the western rims of the islands and in the northern islands—are the major signatures of this Mw=9.3 event.

Tsunami: a history of the term and of scientific understanding of the phenomenon in Japanese and Western culture

2008 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julyan H.E Cartwright ◽  
Hisami Nakamura
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Scientific Understanding ◽  
Ocean Wave ◽  
Indian Ocean Tsunami ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Tsunami ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Indian Ocean

In the past few years we have unfortunately had several reminders of the ability of a particular type of ocean wave—a tsunami—to devastate coastal areas. The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, in particular, was one of the largest natural disasters of past decades in terms of the number of people killed. The name of this phenomenon, tsunami , is possibly the only term that has entered the physics lexicon from Japanese. We use Japanese and Western sources to document historical tsunami in Europe and Japan, the birth of the scientific understanding of tsunami, and how the Japanese term came to be adopted in English.

Responding to Natural Disasters: Managing a Hotel in the Aftermath of the Indian Ocean Tsunami

2005 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan C. Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Indian Ocean Tsunami ◽  
Physical Damage ◽  
General Manager ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Resort Hotel ◽  
Dramatic Fall

The case describes the experiences of the General Manager of a luxury resort hotel on the Thai island of Phuket in the days immediately following the Indian Ocean tsunami at the end of 2004. Although the property escaped physical damage and there were no fatalities among residents and staff, the management had to deal with an unprecedented crisis caused by disruption to the tourism industry in the destination as a whole and a dramatic fall in arrivals. Recovery efforts are outlined and reference is made to longer-term impacts on business and the challenges of restoring confidence and returning to normality. Issues arising from the case are suggested in a final list of questions for discussion.

scholarly journals Social Flux and Disaster Management: An Essay on the Construction of an Indonesian Model for Disaster Management and Reconstruction

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshimi Nishi ◽  
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Hiroyuki Yamamoto
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Management ◽  
Humanitarian Assistance ◽  
Indian Ocean Tsunami ◽  
Sumatra Earthquake ◽  
The West ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
The World ◽  
West Sumatra ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
The Indian Ocean

To understand the socially rooted measures in disaster management and reconstruction, we studied Indonesia as amodel fromthe perspective of social flux, by incorporating the latest knowledge in this field. Characteristically, in Indonesian society, people move so frequently that it is difficult for information or knowledge to accumulate; their living and occupational forms are constantly in flux. Because of these characteristics, supporters and local residents of Indonesia have devised a variety of measures for effective disaster management, humanitarian assistance, and reconstruction. However, such measures have often not been positively evaluated – they have been viewed as an immature response of Indonesian society. In this paper, we have positively reviewed the various measures taken in response to the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, the Java earthquake of 2006, and the West Sumatra Earthquake of 2009 in order to construct an Indonesian model of disaster management and reconstruction from the perspective of social flux. We hope the proposed model will also prove effective in many other parts of the world.

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