Information report on Tsunami's as compiled by a year 6 students.

9. Some strategies communities use to minimise the affects of a natural
disaster:
1. Community-based disaster action teams are important in disaster relief. E.g.
volunteers work together to build seawalls or evacuation centres.
2. Community Based approach where locally involved people know what the needs
are and are able to define the problems. E.g. In Cambodia in 2001 local workers
repaired dams and dikes; cleaned irrigation ditches, culverts, and water gates;
and constructed small bridges.
3. Site Strategies are used through zoning, creation of open space and not allowing
new development in potential tsunami areas, safer land use will be better able
to protect people and buildings.
4. The Kobe Earthquake- Creative Reconstruction of C0-OP Kobe (1997) is an
example of how active co-op communties can unite to help each other. They
took the products from the damaged stores to set up temporary stalls
immediately after the earthquake.

10. Resources
• http://www.n-d-a.org/tsunami.php
• http://courses.washington.edu/larescue/prec
edents/prevention.htm
• Tsunami Disasters by John Hawkins