She took the position to support her family after they were displaced by the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean.
Incidents such as the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean and Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005, have provided deadly evidence of the power of nature to wreak destruction and throw human communities into chaos.
Rizana Nafeek arrived in Saudi Arabia in 2005 and spent her first few weeks in Saudi Arabia working as a housemaid to earn money to support her relatives back home who had been displaced by the massive tsunami in the Indian Ocean the year before.
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In 2013 she portrayed a mother searching for her family in the wake of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in The Impossible.
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The Tsunami Warning System in the Indian Ocean was launched and is now operational.
But the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, coupled with coral disease and human effects, have slowed their recuperation.
Sanny Jegillos, program coordinator for the UNDP's regional center in Bangkok, rates the Indian Ocean early tsunami warning systems as superior to those of the Pacific in terms of earthquake monitoring and detection.
Following the devastating tsunami of 26 December 2004 in the Indian Ocean, the IOC Member States requested that similar warning systems be developed for the Indian Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and adjacent regions as well as the northeast Atlantic, the Mediterranean and connected seas.
Stanley Goosby, a chief scientist with the Pacific Disaster Center in Hawaii, said Indian Ocean countries have made significant progress in tsunami preparedness.
Although the provisional death toll of 25 000 is one-tenth that of both the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami in 2004 and the Haiti earthquake last year, the tragedy has deeply traumatized the population.
The Indian Ocean nations decided to establish an Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (IOTWS) in the wake of the 2004 catastrophe.
At least two of its six tsunami-sensing buoys stationed in the Pacific Ocean were out of service on the day the notorious Indian Ocean tsunami erupted last December.
He and his family were vacationing in the Maldives in December 2004 when the Indian Ocean tsunami hit.
Important Research Institutes of the Euro-Mediterranean region will participate to the meeting together with UNESCO-IOC which, in response to the tragic Indian Ocean tsunami on 26 December 2004, was mandated of coordinating the establishment of the Mediterranean Tsunami Early Warning System.
Regional Tsunami Service Providers (RTSPs) in India, Indonesia and Australia are now the primary source of tsunami advisories for the Indian Ocean.
Handule stressed that the problem has gotten worse since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami killed 225, 000 people in more than 10 nations, including Somalia.
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Congress enacted similar accelerated deductions for folks who donated to victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami that struck Thailand and Indonesia in December 2004.
Simulated tsunami exercises have been organized previously in the Pacific in 2008 and in the Indian Ocean in 2009.
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