1. Tide of Grief Tsunami: The Earth shrugged, and more than 140,000 died
Tide of Grief Tsunami: The Earth shrugged, and more than 140,000 died. A story of unimaginable tragedy and heroism NEWSWEEK Jan 10, 2005

2. Tide of Grief

3. Tsunami death toll Country Estimated deaths Indonesia 94,081
Sri Lanka ,196
India ,479
Thailand ,187
Somalia
Myanmar
Maldives
Malaysia
Tanzania
Bangladesh
Kenya
Estimated total ,394

4. Earthquake’s Size, Damage Called Biblical A geology expert explains the significance of Sunday’s deadly quake and resulting tsunamis.
Dec. 27, As at least nine nations searched for the missing following the world’s biggest earthquake in 40 years, geologist Gianluca Valensise of the Italian Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology spoke with NEWSWEEK’s Eric Pape Monday about the shifts in the earth’s tectonic plates that sparked a 9.0 quake and a 33- to 40-foot-high wave that blanketed thousands of miles of Asian, Indian and African coastlines with death and destruction.

7. Tsunami National Geographic Videos

8. The Tsunami Threat
Science: Though extremely rare, killer waves can be less predictable, and more destructive, than the quakes that cause them
Waves of devastation: An aerial view of India's Marina Beach after the tsunami

9.  Fact File: Flooding and communicable diseases
•Water-borne diseases •Vector-borne diseases •Risk posed by corpses
The major risk associated with flooding is the contamination of drinking-water facilities.
Outbreaks of typhoid fever, cholera, malaria, tuberculosis, bloodborne viruses (such as Hepatitis B/C and HIV), and gastrointestinal infections (such as rotavirus diarrhoea, salmonellosis, E. coli, typhoid/paratyphoid fevers, hepatitis A, shigellosis and cholera).

10. Interesting websites http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/tsunami/