ABSTRACT
On 26 December 2004, the Maldives were inundated with tsunami waves (herein ‘the Tsunami’), generated by a powerful earthquake in the Indian Ocean south of Indonesia that gave rise to the worst natural disaster in recorded history, affecting nine countries on two continents and taking 350,000 lives. Impacts and loss of life was worst in Indonesia (Aceh Province) and Sri Lanka, but destruction and loss of life occurred in India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Maldives and Somalia (Athukorala and Resosudarmo 2005).
