Tsunami Case Study

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INTRODUCTION According to Perry (2007), disasters broadly as situations that involve not just impact, but the threat of an interruption of normally effective procedures for reducing certain tensions, together with a dramatic increase in tensions. In addition, he stated that the disasters disrupt the social order, producing physical destruction and death becomes important because people must cope by departing from the pattern of norm expectations. He retained the negative dimension as a key feature of disasters as well as the importance of social consequences generated by a need to change normative behaviors. In other words, disaster can be defined, as events that can give negative impacts towards society, which can concludes people’s deaths, damage of environment and cause a lot of physical injuries. Disasters can be divided into two which are the first one is natural disasters such as tsunamis and another one is man-made disasters that conclude war or bomb blasts. But in terms of natural disasters, Shah (2011) claimed …show more content…

This natural disaster caused at least killed more than 250,000 peoples in a single day, and at the same time leaving more than 1.7 million homeless. The scourge and loss that have been created by this disaster brought uncounted damages and many people lose their homes in the Indian Oceans. Their grief’s is shared around the world, and take this experience as a lesson and reminder to ourselves to become more grateful that we are safe from this powerful nature forces. Based on the research about this issue during that time, from the tourist resorts of south Thailand to Aceh’s city, to the fishing villages at Sri Lanka, and onward to the coasts of Africa, societies were provoke by the devastation and

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