| The magnitude 9.0 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake triggered a series of lethal tsunamis on December 26、 2004 that killed over 225、000 people、 making it the deadliest tsunami in recorded history. In order to investigate this tsunami and related damages from the hydrological and hydraulic aspects、 the Committee on Hydroscience and Hydraulic Engineering、 Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) delegated its members whose majors are coastal hydraulics、 river engineering、 hydraulic engineering and hydrology as a tsunami investigation team by JSCE. In this paper、 results of filed investigation are shown mainly for disasters in rivers. The present survey results will be useful for future planning of tsunami disaster prevention in Sri Lanka、 as well as in Japan、 where near future occurrence of tsunami disaster is highly expected. |
