Boxing Day Tsunami

GPTKB entity

Statements (53)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:disaster_response
gptkb:earthquake
gptkbp:affectedArea gptkb:Bangladesh
gptkb:India
gptkb:Indonesia
gptkb:Kenya
gptkb:Malaysia
gptkb:Myanmar
gptkb:Seychelles
gptkb:Somalia
gptkb:Sri_Lanka
gptkb:Tanzania
gptkb:Thailand
gptkb:Maldives
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:2004_Indian_Ocean_tsunami
gptkbp:borders Indo-Australian Plate and Eurasian Plate
gptkbp:causedBy undersea megathrust earthquake
gptkbp:date 2004-12-26
gptkbp:displacement over 1.7 million
gptkbp:earthquakeDepth 30 km
gptkbp:earthquakeMagnitude 9.1–9.3 Mw
gptkbp:earthquakeTimeUTC 00:58:53 UTC
gptkbp:economicImportance over $15 billion
gptkbp:epicenter off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Boxing Day Tsunami
gptkbp:injuries over 125,000
gptkbp:lake gptkb:Indian_Ocean
gptkbp:mediaCoverage global
gptkbp:memorial gptkb:Aceh_Tsunami_Museum,_Indonesia
gptkb:Tsunami_Memorial_Park,_Thailand
gptkb:Tsunami_Photo_Museum,_Sri_Lanka
gptkbp:notableFor one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history
gptkbp:reliefEffortsBy international humanitarian response
gptkbp:triggeredBy gptkb:2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake
gptkbp:tsunami environmental damage
up to 30 meters
infrastructure destruction
loss of life
economic loss
long-term displacement
coastal devastation
gptkbp:tsunamiDuration several hours
gptkbp:tsunamiOrigin gptkb:Sunda_megathrust
gptkbp:tsunamiSpeed up to 800 km/h
gptkbp:tsunamiTravelTime hours to reach Africa
gptkbp:tsunamiWarningSystem not in place at the time
gptkbp:tsunamiWaveLength hundreds of kilometers
gptkbp:UNESCOHeritageSiteDamaged gptkb:Galle_Fort
gptkbp:victim over 227,000
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake
gptkb:2004_Indian_Ocean_tsunami
gptkb:2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6