Terremoto Del Océano Indico En El 2004 En Ingles

Indian Ocean Earthquake 2004
The Indian Ocean earthquake of 2004, known by the scientific community as the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, was an undersea earthquake that occurred at 00:58 UTC, or 7:58local time in the region on Sunday December 26 de2004 (21:58 hours Pacific West Coast on Saturday December 25, 2004), centered on the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The earthquake caused a seriesof devastating tsunamis along the coasts of most countries bordering the Indian Ocean, killing large numbers of people and flooding in its wake a large number of coastal communities through nearly allSouth and Southeast Asia, including parts of Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand. Although initial estimates had determined the death toll at more than 275,000, not counting thethousands of missing persons, a more recent analysis generated by the UN leaves a total of 229,866 casualties, including 186,983 dead and 42,883 missing. The sample excludes 400 to 600 people may have diedin Burma, which is far more than the 61 deaths that leave the central government projections. If statistics are reliable Myanmar, the number of deaths would amount to at least 230,000 people, of whichthe disaster is the deadliest natural novena disaster modern history. The disaster is known in Asia and in the international media as the Asian Tsunami, is called boxing tsunami in Australia, Canada,New Zealand, and the UK, because it happened on Boxing Day since the December 26 holiday is called well in these countries. The tsunami occurred exactly one year after the 2003 earthquake thatdevastated the city of Bam and iraní meridional exactly two years before the 2006 Hengchun earthquake.
The magnitude of the earthquake was originally recorded as 9.0 on the Richter scale, but then increasedto 9.1 and 9.3. With this scale, is the second largest earthquake ever recorded since the existence of the seismograph (approximately 1875), after the 1960 earthquake in Valdivia (Chile). He was...