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The Tsunami occurred on December 26th 2004

World Changing
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an article : "The Tsunami Next Time" and comments to read
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/001828.html
how can we prevent the next disaster? this article suggest various solutions and several people have replied. you can discuss the problem and write an article with your own solutions.

Special reports
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Most reports contain an explanation of what happened, videos and sound reports of the news, and stories by people who were there.
from BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/world/2004/asia_quake_disaster/default.stm
from The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/tsunami/0,15671,1380306,00.html
from NYT http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/31/international/worldspecial4/31wave.html?oref=login (with explanations of how the waves were created by the plates' movements in "a disaster unfolds")
from Time for Kids http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/news/story/0,6260,1012077,00.html#
from NBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6754820/ (with links to Encarta)
<>from ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Tsunami/ (with explanations, videos, and  the consequences one year and two years after)
from CNN : http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2004/tsunami.disaster/
from News 24 http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Tsunami_Disaster/Home/0,,2-10-1777,00.html
from Reuters http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/emergency/SA_TID.htm
from World Help Organisation http://www.who.int/hac/techguidance/ems/tsunamis/en/ (from the helpers' point of view)

Blogs
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Read those stories told by people living in the worst-hit areas
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tsunami/story/0,15671,1380838,00.html

Links about tsunamis
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US geological Survey reports and information
<>http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/ (Earth Quake Center)
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/usslav.htm
Everything you want to know about tsunami in short articles (including a definition, but no animations)
http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/intro.html
http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/general/physics/physics.html ( tsunami physics)
http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/general/warning/warning.html (tsunami warning system)
animations showing how it works ( but not on the last one)
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/animations/tsunami/index.html
http://quake.usgs.gov/tsunami/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/4126809.stm
How earthquakes work
http://science.howstuffworks.com/earthquake.htm
what is a tsunami at wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami
various links
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=49&aid=76250#Tsunamis

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