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International events
2004 Boxing Day tsunami
2007 Peru earthquake and local tsunami
2008 Sichuan, China, earthquake
2009 Samoa/Tonga tsunami
2010 Chile eathquake and local tsunami
Miscellaneous events
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2004 Boxing Day tsunami
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Banda Ache building damage
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Charlie's Beach waterfront | Map of affected areas | Phi Phi beachfront apartments | Phi Phi street debris |
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Wat Wang Yau victim identification tent | Charlie's Beach street debris |
2007 Peru earthquake and local tsunami
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Badly damaged residential apartments aa | Apartment block collapse | Adobe-style construction failure | Collapsed cathedral |
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Cleanup of pavement glass | NZ delegation outside collapsed cathedral | Shopping street debris | Boats swept inland by local tsunami |
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Damage to bridge on the Pan American HW | Car crushed beneath fallen debris |
2008 Sichuan, China, earthquake
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Gisborne Mayor, Meng Foon by collapsed apartments aa | Rubble from collapsed buildings | Rebuilding using base isolation technology |
2009 Samoa/Tonga tsunami
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Niuatoputapu, Tonga: tsunami damage aa | Niuatoputapu, Tonga: damage to the port | Niuatoputapu, Tonga: airstrip damage | Tonga: managing donated goods |
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Samoa: tsunami damage in an estuary aa | Samoa: one of dozens of villages affected | Samoa: entering an extensively damaged area | Samoa: steep cliffs made escape difficult |
2010 Chile earthquake and local tsunami
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Debris littering the beach following the tsunami (Latercera) aa | Cars piled up by the force of the tsunami (Latercera) | Wharf damage (Latercera) | Shipping damage following the tsunami (Latercera) |
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Bridge collapse aa | Residential apartment block | Elevated motorway damage | Elevated motorway damage |
Miscellaneous
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Hurricane Katrina storm surge | Goma volcano Africa 2002 | Tsunami street warnings Chile |
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Tsunami Solomons 2007 | Tsunami damage Solomons 2007 |



