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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- Czech supermodel-turned-activist Petra Nemcova's life changed forever on 26 December 2004, when she was caught up in the tragedy of the Indian Ocean Tsunami. She has become a tireless campaigner for disaster risk reduction.
Petra was vacationing in Khao Lak, Thailand with her partner Simon Atlee when the tsunami struck. He drowned, but Petra, whose pelvis was broken, managed to survive by holding on to a palm tree for eight hours until she was rescued by Thai civilians and airlifted to an inland hospital.
She now devotes most of her time to the Happy Hearts Fund, a charitable organization protecting children against disasters that she founded just after the 2004 tsunami. The fund has already helped to rebuild some 150 schools in disaster-affected areas.
Many thanks to our colleagues at the UN News Centre in New York for interviewing Petra when she was there for an event marking the first ever edition of World Tsunami Awareness Day, in November 2016.
She's strong.
Very strong.
Petra survived the tsunami, she gathered herself, became more powerful. The element gave her strength. But she rarely says that in the hospital she hardly spoke and was helped by Buddhist monks to start talking and giving interviews. They told me what they had said to her about pain and strength of mind.
Incredible story of survival, so sad about Petra's lost, the reason the sea recedes is because when the fault that caused the tsunami ruptured the eastern side of the fault subsided pulling a trough of water down with the fault causing a negative wave, all the waves going east lead with the trough, but to the West towards India, Sri Lanka and Africa the story very different, the fault uplifting you have a positive wave where the crest of the wave comes first causing no receding of the sea.
You can also clarify that the wave was not 30 meters high, here Petra is mistaken. In the only place the tsunami was about this height, when water accumulated in a narrow place in Banda Aceh, but in the video the wave is no more than 7-8 meters high. On the beach where Nemtsova was, the wave could be no more than 10-12 meters, and then, far from the bungalow.
Near Banda aceh it was 51 meters high ( I forgot the name , population was estimated to be 10,000 and went down to 700)
@@karma_97_ This is most likely exaggerated by someone and does not correspond to the dynamics of the 2004 tsunami and any video footage of the tsunami. The maximum height could be 25 meters, and then subject to the impact and the rise of the wave upon impact. In Aceh itself, according to the frames, the wave is no more than 10 meters.
@@AlekseyHito Yeah I don't believe it was an exaggeration, in Banda aceh it was around 25-30 meters, but near aceh it could have been way bigger since it was closer to epicenter of the earthquake. no video footage in those islands exist but locals say (few of them remaining) that the wall that they saw was like a small mountain approaching, they obviously must have been in higher ground or else there wouldn't even be a population of 700.
When I find the name of these places I will send you their name .
@@karma_97_ The largest tsunami was in Japan - there I saw a wave of about 20 meters in video recordings from afar. I think in Banda Aceh it was originally about 20 meters. We must understand that a tsunami of 5 meters can demolish a city and kill up to a hundred thousand people. A mark of 25-30 meters in Banda Aceh is indicated in the place of accumulation of water due to the narrowness of the bay. Consequently, there were no 30 meters in the tsunami sea, but the same 20 meters from the force.
@@AlekseyHito I see interesting.
Beautiful inside and out. She lost her lover and never saw him again, and she was gravely injured. Yet, she came back again and again and helped the people. I'd vote for her for president!! Although I think we have a strong compassionate president elect, and an equally strong and brilliant vice president elect. Ooooooh, I can't wait to see Trump and his crew of perverts and grifters fade back into their luxury compounds. Never again!!!