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• Title: Tsunami: Hope in the Midst of Disaster (Suyam Charitable Trust )
• Author : Childhood Education
• Release Date : January 22, 2008
• Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 206 KB

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The lives of many were changed forever when a tsunami struck on the morning of December 26, 2004, as a result of an earthquake off the coast of Indonesia registering 9.0 on the Richter scale. In India, 10,022 lives were lost, with 5,617 officially missing (Vijaykumar, Thara, John, & Chelleppa, 2006). The state of Tamil Nadu was the most affected region in mainland India (7,923 lost), and the Nagapattinam district, a center of fishing industry in Tamil Nadu, suffered the most death and devastation (Arya, Mandal, & Muley, 2006), with 6,023 lives lost. Aftershocks in the nearby Andaman and Nicobar Islands sent waves of fear among the survivors, further debilitating their spirits (Math, Girimaji, et al., 2006). "Disasters are potentially traumatic events which impose massive collective stress consequent to violent encounters with nature, technology or human kind (Math, John, et al., 2008, p. 29). Experts Math, John, et al. (2008) and Vijayakumar (2006) say that children and adolescents are much more vulnerable than adults to such traumatic experiences, as they are likely to feel "helplessness and passivity, lack of usual responsiveness, generalized fear, heightened arousal and confusion" (Vijayakumar et al., 2006, p. 226).

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