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  December 26, 2004 7:58 earthquake off west coast of Sumatra measured over 9 on the Ridler scale. http://www.abc-computers.com/news-events/blog/supply-chain-contingency-plans-4-ways-to-prepare-for-unexpected-interruptions/
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  the history of a tradgety..
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  Bewildered survivors hunt for relatives With so many dead hospitals could not cope, morges and villages are overcrowed with bodies. Families torn apart by wave.
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  The Death Toll is known to be 50,000 people.
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  Death Toll is now 77,000
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  UK donates pounds( 25m- 47m) to aid appeal
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  6,000 are missing and or dead. Thai and foreign rescue teams continue to search for survivors.
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  Severe weather in Sri Lanka disrupted efforts to help more than one million people who were originally effected by the tsunami.
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  Death tolls likely topped 150,000 people that lost their lives in the Indian Ocean
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  U.S advocates send help over to the Asian tusnami victims
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  Accident with cargo plane, blocking cargo plane carrying over aid effort.
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  U.S secratary of state Collin Powell visited Indonesia to witness the devastation.
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  World leaders come together in Indonesia to discuss how to get aid to the millions affected. They then begin to rebuild communities and create early warning systems for future disasters.