Showing posts with label tsunamis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tsunamis. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

More on Tsunamis



One of the most terrible tsunamis of modern times hit Indian Ocean shorelines on December 26, 2004. That tsunami is believed to have the energy of 23,000 Hiroshima-type atomic bombs. Some 200,000 people were killed in a single day.
Click here to watch a 3:27 minute video from National Geographic in case you want to know more about this topic that came up in one of our class activities this week. It takes some time to download and even has an IBM ad before it shows, but very effective for visual learners like me. Tell us if you found new information or what you found interesting, shocking, revealing, thought-provoking ...