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The Case of the Indonesian Tsunami Disaster of December 26, 2004
One of the things most overlooked at times of major disasters is the response of life to the disaster. Three hours before the earthquake, elephants in Khao Lak, the hardest hit area in Thailand, screamed in fear. This area is hundreds of miles away from the earthquake that generated the tsunami. They trumpeted a second time an hour before the tsunami struck and moved to higher ground, even breaking chains that secured them. Hermit crabs on some of the islands in Thailand, where they live on the sandy beaches, suddenly escaped to higher ground before tha wave hit. Sri Lanka's Yala National Park was hit by surging floodwater, but there were no signs of any dead jackals, crocodiles, leopards, elephants, and deer, animals that have given the park worldwide fame. Eyewitness accounts indicate that dogs refused to go outside, flamingos left there coastal breeding grounds, and zoo animals rushed into their shelters and would not come out. The coastal region of Cuddalore, India had thousands of human casualities, but no buffaloes, goats, and dogs -- which are plentiful -- were found dead.
Another overlooked fact is that the responses and presence of life helped to save human life. For example, a dive boat captain saw the ocean suddenly filled with dolphins and he followed them, escaping the wave. In San Souk, a fishing village, birds suddenly became frantic, and the villagers took notice and left, saving all 1,000 villagers. In many cases it was trees that people clung to that saved ther lives. Areas that still had their coral reefs and mangrove trees along the coast were far less badly hit. Other forested areas acted as barriers to the full force of the wave. In contrast, those areas where the corals were destroyed or the mangrove trees ripped out for hotels and aquaculture were devastated. For example, in the Maldives more than 100 people lost their lives in a population of about 270,000, while in Phuket, with a similar-sized population the toll was 1,000. It is a well known fact that the developed areas (i.e., areas where life was destroyed by humans) where hit them most and the hardest. See this Innovations-report.de artilce. Meanwhile, places like Myanmar, where the mangroves remained intact, or India's state of Tamil Nadu, where there are dense stands of mangroves, suffered much fewer human casualties and property damage. These so-called "coastal greeenbelts" saved thousands of lives and lessened damage in India, Sri Lanka, and Malaysia Both the World Wildlife Fund and Friends of the Earth have taken note of this in many regions hit by the wave.
Another overlooked occurrence is what the aftermath scenes reveal. In most cases the tsunami wiped away plantations, aquaculture, agriculture, roads, bridges and buildings, even entire villages. Nature, on the other hand, suffered little, and will likely recover quickly, as has taken place in other disasters. For example, see these NASA, Earth Observatory aerials of the before and after scenes of Gleebruk, Indonesia.
The bottom image is a before image of a tsunami hit area which shows a road, bridges, an aquaculture structure (probably a shrimp farm), a planatation, and buildings (NASA, April 12, 2004). The top iamge, after the tsunami hit, shows that all the artifical systems and non-living structures are wiped out, including the road, bridges, the aquaculture structure, the planatation, and buildings that existed before the tsunami struck (NASA January 2, 2005).
Another phenomena unaccounted for by present theoretical perspectives is what happened to the Earth. The earthquake that generated the tsunami was attended with a change in the Earth's rotation, decreased the length of day, shifted the North Pole and changed the Earth's shape. These effects weren't much, but they were measured by scientists. For more see this Universetoday.com and NASA articles. Moreover, the Earth was ringing like a bell for weeks after the earthquake as reported in a Spacedaily.com article. In The Vital Vastness it was shown that these various phenomena are interconnected and controlled by the field system of the Field-dynamical Earth Model (FEM).
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Some life systems are destroyed, but these are artifical systems, such as aquaculture, plantations, planted forests (after old growth forests have been cut down).
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