The Asian Tsunami in Sri Lanka: A Personal Experience

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Jan 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005eostr..86...13c&link_type=abstract

Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, Volume 86, Issue 2, p. 13-14

Physics

Seismology: Earthquake Dynamics (1242), Seismology: General Or Miscellaneous

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AGU Fellow Chris Chapman experienced the devastating Asian tsunami firsthand in Sri Lanka. The following is his account, written in the immediate aftermath of the disaster; the footnotes were added later. Chapman is a scientific advisor at Schlumberger Cambridge Research and a specialist in theoretical seismology. At 9:30 A.M. local time (0330 GMT) on Boxing Day, 26 December, my wife, Lillian, and I were eating breakfast at the beachside Triton Hotel1 in Ahungalla, Sri Lanka (about 30 km north of Galle). The previous week we had toured Sri Lanka, ending our trip traveling through Yala National Park and Galle. These were places we hardly knew of before, but now images of them are indelibly imprinted on the world. Of about 150 staying at the Yala Safari Game Lodge, only 11 survived. The center of Galle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a sixteenth- to seventeenth-century Portuguese/Dutchfort and port, is essentially gone.

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