The Tentative Application of the Earth Systems Science to the Interpretation of the 2004 Earthquake Tsunami in the Indian Ocean
试用地球系统科学观解读2004年印度洋地震海啸

The Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami in 2004,the most serious natural disaster occurring at the beginning of the 21st century,involved the actions of lithosphere,hydrosphere,aerosphere,biosphere,and even outside star and moon,and caused the mutual transmission and conversion of energy and material.All this shows that the earth is an integrated system.This paper analyzed the natural disaster such as earthquake and tsunami by means of the Earth Systems Science,identified mutual relations,formation styles and evolutionary regularities,and adopted such geoscience view points as informationization,globalization and sustainable development to study and prevent earthquake and tsunami.