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Some experts have differing opinions. Embattled coal mine suffers blow as corporate cop presses charges. Popular Now 1. Astroworld death toll rises as year-old student succumbs to 'horrific' injuries Posted 11m ago 11 minutes ago Thu 11 Nov at pm. He says that the time since the tsunami has taught him that life sometimes brings happiness and sometimes not, but that affection is critically important.
Another young man who lost a wife and child has also remarried. But he told us that the time since the tsunami has not brought any positive changes in his life, though he is deeply committed to earning the money to support the education of the two young children he now has. Our data covers the population before the disaster and measures exposure to the disaster in terms of impacts on both places and people. Death is the most extreme consequence of exposure to a disaster.
Some deaths are immediate, but others may occur over the years as sustained exposure to stress takes its toll. Teasing out how disasters affect mortality risks is complicated, but can provide clues about what will happen when disasters strike in the future. We have found that the groups least likely to survive the tsunami were older adults and young children.
Among adults, women were less likely to survive than men. We see resilience as the ability to minimise the negative impacts of difficult situations and move forward effectively afterwards. But equally, the survivors may have protective traits that are associated with better health and longevity. We examined mortality for survivors at five years and ten years after the tsunami. We found that among adults, both these factors are in play and that they operate differently for men and women.
Five years after the tsunami, there is clear evidence that for male survivors who were aged 50 and above when the disaster took place, those from heavily affected areas were more likely to still be alive than those from relatively unaffected areas.
But for women over 50, the reverse was true: we found that survivors from heavily damaged areas were at higher risk of dying over the next five years than women from unaffected areas.
These basic patterns were still apparent ten years after the disaster. But by this point, the evidence shows that in particular, post-traumatic stress for older men or the loss of a spouse for older women decreased the likelihood them still being alive.
Although the two events are of course extremely different, these results should encourage us to reflect on what the long-term health effects of the COVID pandemic might be.
A large fraction of the people in our study reported high levels of post traumatic stress symptoms; for some, these resolved quickly but for others, they persisted for several years. Our evidence shows that 13 years after the tsunami, adults who directly experienced the tsunami had thicker waists, were more likely to have elevated inflammation levels indicating infection or illness , and more likely to have difficulties regulating glucose levels.
These patterns point to a long-term scarring that gets under the skin and will likely affect disease progression and mortality in the years to come. Specifically, several established biological markers indicate that some survivors who directly experienced the tsunami are at higher risk of chronic illnesses such as heart disease and diabetes. At AM, a 9. The Boxing Day tsunami would be the deadliest in recorded history, taking a staggering , lives in a matter of hours.
Buildings folded like houses of cards, trees and cars were swept up in the oil-black rapids and virtually no one caught in the deluge survived. Thailand was next. With waves traveling mph across the Indian Ocean, the tsunami hit the coastal provinces of Phang Nga and Phuket an hour and a half later. Despite the time lapse, locals and tourists were caught completely unaware of the imminent destruction. Curious beachgoers even wandered out among the oddly receding waves, only to be chased down by a churning wall of water.
The death toll in Thailand was nearly 5, including 2, foreign tourists. An hour later, on the opposite side of the Indian Ocean, the waves struck the southeastern coast of India near the city of Chennai, pushing debris-choked water kilometers inland and killing more than 10, people, mostly women and children, since many of the men were out fishing.
But some of the worst devastation was reserved for the island nation of Sri Lanka, where more than 30, people were swept away by the waves and hundreds of thousands left homeless.
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