Disaster in the Indian Ocean : tsunami 2004 / John A. Torres.

By:

Torres, John Albert

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Monumental milestones. ; Great events of modern timesPublication details: Hockessin, Del. : Mitchell Lane Publishers, c2005.Description: 48 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 24 cmISBN:

158415344X (hbk.)
9781584153443 (hbk.)

Other title:

Tsunami 2004

DDC classification:

909/.09824083 22
363.34

LOC classification:

GC221.5 .T665 2005

Contents:

The ocean moved -- Aftermath -- The world responds -- Hope and miracles -- What's next?

Subject: The disaster in the Indian Ocean started with a massive undersea earthquake off the coast of Indonesia. What followed was a surge of water called a tsunami that killed thousands of people in nearly a dozen countries. Water rose up miles inland and destroyed everything in its path. Children were ripped from their parents? arms, husbands and wives were lost to each other forever. This is their story. But more importantly, this is a story of hope, of how people woke up to destroyed cities and missing children and did not give up. They showed what they were made of by licking their wounds and then trying to find their lives again. This is also the story of how the world responded with the biggest humanitarian effort in history. Countries from all over the world sent money, food, water, soldiers, and doctors. Nothing like this has ever happened in our world before, and although the world responded in a big way, hopefully it will never happen again.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	363.34 TOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		900184748

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The ocean moved -- Aftermath -- The world responds -- Hope and miracles -- What's next?

The disaster in the Indian Ocean started with a massive undersea earthquake off the coast of Indonesia. What followed was a surge of water called a tsunami that killed thousands of people in nearly a dozen countries. Water rose up miles inland and destroyed everything in its path. Children were ripped from their parents? arms, husbands and wives were lost to each other forever. This is their story. But more importantly, this is a story of hope, of how people woke up to destroyed cities and missing children and did not give up. They showed what they were made of by licking their wounds and then trying to find their lives again. This is also the story of how the world responded with the biggest humanitarian effort in history. Countries from all over the world sent money, food, water, soldiers, and doctors. Nothing like this has ever happened in our world before, and although the world responded in a big way, hopefully it will never happen again.

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