What were the primary and secondary effects of the boxing day tsunami in 2004?

Answer 1

Primary effects :

- Death from the flooding

- Buildings destroyed

- Farms and agriculture in the land is wiped out

- Houses are destroyed

- Diseases such as cholera are spread through the water from the floods

Secondary effects :

- Death from diseases in the flood water

- Homelessness leads to death from no shelter

- No farms = death from starvation , and also poverty in many areas, even ones not affected by the flooding

- Companies and business's suffer

- Major strain on the economy from having to spend millions to clear up and rebuild etc.

Those are the only ones i can think of at the moment, but they should be enough.

Answer 2

Indonesia242,347Sri Lanka30,957India16,389Thailand5,393Somalia298Maldives82Malaysia68Mynamar61Tanzania10Bangladesh2Kenya1Total295,608

This is the amount of deaths, the death toll is a primary effect.

other primary effects are:

· destruction of homes,

· destruction of buildings

· loss of food

· loss of clean water

· death toll of around 295, 608

· injury

I cant find anything on secondary effects though, sorry :)