The Destruction from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and Responses from the Maldives' Government

The Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 was one of the most deadly and destructive tsunamis in modern history. For countries like the Maldives who have never experienced such disasters, this is even devastating. Several islands in the Maldives have been completely destroyed but still many people are being killed; economic, infrastructure, environmental, and human psychological damage is immeasurable (Pardasani, 2006, p. 80). "Maldives Government, et al., 2005, p. 4) deal only with storm surges and local floods," There are no action plans or abilities in the Maldives to cope with this magnitude of disasters ".

Vasily Titov is a tsunami researcher and forecaster of the National Ocean Atmospheric Tsunami Research and Management Center. He believes that the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami did not destroy the original forces that caused the earthquake. The earthquake resulted from the so-called huge earthquake fault, and the heavy oceanic plate subducted below the lighter continental plate. Since the earthquake and tsunami that occurred in 2004 were hardly known in Indian and Sri Lankan long cultural history, I explained that Tsunami researcher at the University of Southern California and eCoast chief Seb Borrero is in New Zealand. Maritime consulting company

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