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A massive tsunami with waves up to 30 m (100 ft) high, known as the Boxing Day Tsunami after the Boxing Day holiday, or as the Asian Tsunami, [10] devastated communities along the surrounding coasts of the Indian Ocean, killing an estimated 227,898 people in 14 countries in one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history.
5 ημέρες πριν · The tsunami caused one of the largest natural disasters in recorded history, killing at least 225,000 people across a dozen countries, with Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Maldives, and Thailand sustaining massive damage.
Sumatra on December 26, 2004 was the third largest earthquake in the world since 1900; USGS estimated the earthquake released the energy of 23,000 Hiroshima-type atomic bombs. The resulting tsunami spread across the Indian Ocean and devastated the shores of Indonesia, south Asia, eastern Africa, and Madagascar with waves up to 100 feet high.
1 Ιουλ 2007 · On December 26, 2004 a great earthquake (M W 9.3) occurred off the western coast of Sumatra triggering a series of tsunami waves that propagated across the Indian Ocean causing damage and life...
In the case of Sumatra, the long rupture played a key role in generating the devastating tsunami. In particular, the large tsunami amplitudes in Sri Lanka and India resulted from rupture on the northern, north-trending segment because tsunami amplitudes are largest perpendicular to the fault.
Hundreds of thousands dead and billions of dollars in damage expose catastrophic regional impact of this tsunami. At the same time, the waves recorded around the world revealed unprecedented truly global reach of the waves generated on December 26 (Fig. 1).
1 Ιαν 2016 · The December 26, 2004, tsunami was the most deadly tsunami and which led to one of the greatest disasters in historical times. Some 280,000 people were killed in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Africa.
