Rebuilding and Prevention in Tsunami-Hit Areas
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Posted on December 20, 2006
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| The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami - rebuilding continues |
In a series of three articles in Science, an International weekly science journal, Richard Stone describes how ecosystems are being restored and measures put in place to ensure that the next earthquake will not have such devastating consequences.
Subsidence and uplift caused by the 2005 earthquake profoundly changed the landscape of Nias Island off Sumatra's west coast, according to research by scientists from the Caltech-Indonesian Institute of Sciences. The team warns that the coastline around Padang, Sumatra, would subside by tens of centimetres if another major earthquake hit the area. This, they say, is likely to happen within the next few decades.
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Scientists from the Caltech-Indonesian Institute of Science warn that the coastline around Padang, Sumatra would subside by tens of centimetres if another major earthquake hit the area.
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Meanwhile a US$62 million initiative to replant mangroves, sand dunes and sea-grass beds, called Mangroves for the Future (MMF), will be unveiled at a tsunami donors meeting on 31 October.
MMF will also provide an updated assessment of mangrove distribution in the area and restore ecosystems in the 12 nations affected by the tsunami.
Links to full articles in Science:
A rescue effort for tsunami-ravaged mangrove forests
Facing a tsunami with no place to run
The day the land tipped over
Contributed by Science. Reprinted with permission from SciDev.Net.
To read another Global Envision article about the 2004 tsunami, see The Globalized World Responds to the Tsunami Disaster.
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