A 6th GRADER

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THE DISASTER

• A 6th GRADER

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SUFERS

• Surfers can get caught in a wave like this when
  you are caught the water/wave has complete
  control over you, you spin around in circles and
  fight the wave some make it out alive and others
  arent so lucky they can die from the force or
  get pushed onto rocks.

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STILL HOMELESS

• IN COLLOMBO, ABOUT 50,000 PEOPLE IN SRI LANKA
  WERE MADE HOMELESS BY LAST DECEMBERS TSUNAMI.
  BECAUSE OF THAT TSUNAMI PEOPLE ARE STILL SLEEPING
  IN TENTS AND IN RELIEF CENTERS.

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Never want to be caught in one of these
Never want to be caught in one of these
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unexpected

• If you dont live in the United States there are
  not good sencers to tell you if a tsunami is in
  the ocean so other poorer country such as Africa
  and Asia has no clue what will happed. This
  devices are yellow and are noise maker so people
  can try to get away or at least 500 miles so they
  dont get caught in one.

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500 miles

• Tsunami can travel a good 500 miles which if one
  hit the coast of California could acculy reach
  about Salt Lake City, Utah

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How they are caused

• They are caused by earthquake on the fault line
  in the ocean which causes a,

BIG WAVE
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What happened 12-26-04

• The biggest earthquake ever happened
  12-26-04 in parts of Asia this earthquake was a
  9.0 that as BIG as it gets.

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TSUNAMI

• On April Fools Day, 1946. A day for tricks and
  laughter.
• At Hilo, Hawaii 700 a.m. and the fishermen were
  getting the last of their early morning catch,
  the sea decided to play a trick on them
• boats Suddenly the ocean rusted out leaving fish
  and stranded on bare sand.

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LOOK AT THE WAVE
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CREDITS

• www.uen.org
• Tsunami Science

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