Will

The Crushing Tsunami Report = = =Hello, my name is [|Will] and I am a 5th Grade student at [|MICDS]in St. Louis, Missouri. This page will show how natural disasters impact peoples' lives. Readers will learn how tsunamis are created. It includes the Sri Lanka tsunami in 2004. Welcome to The Crushing Tsunami Report by Will.=

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 * The Japan tsunami in March 2011**

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The Historical Paragraph
====** The historical event I am doing is the [|earthquake and tsunami of Southeast Asia] on Christmas 2004. An 9.3 magnitude earthquake rocked the Pacific Ocean in 2004. It was caused by two gigantic plates shifting one plate up 60 feet. That made trillions of tons of water be displaced and made the water tower high. Silently, without being noticed, The pushed towards Asia at the speed of a jet plane. As it neared the shore, the speed slowed and the water towered higher. As the water reached the shored, the death toll climbed higher; 20,000, 40,000, 70,000, 80,000, 100,000. The places the tsunamis hit were Sri Lanka, North Sumatra, India, and Africa. The Sri Lanka tsunami killed 30,000 people, the India tsunami killed 8,000. The total death toll is 230,000. [|The Hawaii's Pacific Tsunami Warning Center] said there was no tsunami threat, but after the North Sumatra tsunami they sent a small tsunami threat out to the public. **====


 * Since the communities that got hit by the tsunamis didn't receive any big warning, the community wasn't prepared for any tsunami, much less a giant one. What they do differently is no matter what, if there is an earthquake in the ocean, the Hawaii's Pacific Tsunami Warning Center will have to send a big tsunami warning if they don't want the tsunamis of 2004 to happen again. They are also doing drills across the Indian Ocean. [|Unicef] is building 52 schools in Sri Lanka because of the tsunami. Thank you for reading. **



= My Current Event Paper =

Will Section: 5B2 Article: “Double Tsunami Doubled Japan’s Destruction” Author: [|ScienceDaily.com] Date: December 5, 2011

On March 11, satellites got extremely lucky and captured two tsunamis merging on their way to Japan. It formed way out in the ocean so it could go for miles without stopping. Tony Song, a research scientist from NASA, commented on the discovery, “It was about a one in a ten million chance that we were able to observe this wave on satellites.” “Researchers have suspected for decades that such ‘merging tsunamis’ might have been responsible for the 1960 Chilean tsunami that killed many in Japan and Hawaii, but nobody had definitively observed a merging tsunami until now.” “ It was like looking for a ghost,” he said. The sea floor suddenly nudges tsunamis so their destruction might be random. That’s the need for this. The team with Song were able to establish the satellite data by model simulations coming from independent data. The other people in Song’s team are Ichiro Fukumori, Yuchan Yi and C.K Shung.

I learned that tsunamis can merge together and double the force of the tsunami. I also learned that it can be very hard to track a tsunami from satellite.

Special Thanks to:
Gary Jeffrey, author of //Tsunamis and Floods// [|EBSCO Student Research Center], who provided the //Newsweek// article //Tide of Grief// Eddie Bernard who wrote the article on tsunamis in the encyclopedia //The New Book of Knowledge// "Tsunami hits Sri Lanka 12-26-04." //Gale Science in Context//. Detroit: Gale, 2010. //Gale Science In Context//. Web. 2 Feb. 2012. =[|cbsnews.com]=