Seven years ago today, the world watched in horror as more than 250,000 people died within three hours as a result of a massive tsunami off the coast of Indonesia, triggered by a huge earthquake in the Indian Ocean: a sudden large shift in undersea tectonic plates. Of course, the devastation lasted much longer than the tsunami itself, and many more lives were lost in the days, weeks and months afterwards. It’s a little hard to tell what the current status of recovery is today, seven years on. The last rebuilding update in Wikipedia is for 2007, though the entry also notes that in 2009, the government opened a museum costing 5.6 million U.S. dollars, “to commemorate the tsunami with photographs, stories, and a simulation of the earthquake that triggered the tsunami.”<\/p>\n
For many of us, the scale of the devastation was unimaginable, previously unknown and heartbreaking; yet, the Earth has made such moves for millenia — and will again. Eric wrote extensively on the chart for the disaster at the time, in a pair of articles for Jonathan Cainer’s site. You can read The Great Wave – Part One<\/strong> here<\/a>, and In the Wake of the Flood: The Great Wave – Part Two<\/strong> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Seven years ago today, the world watched in horror as more than 250,000 people died within three hours as a result of a massive tsunami off the coast of Indonesia, triggered by a huge earthquake in the Indian Ocean: a sudden large shift in undersea tectonic plates. Of course, the devastation lasted much longer than … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}