Posted by Jai Narayan on December 26, 2004, at 9:42:42
Countries affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea earthquake of Moment magnitude scale 8.9 that struck the Indian Ocean off the western coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia on December 26, 2004 00:58:50 UTC (or 07:58:50 local time in Jakarta and Bangkok). It was the strongest earthquake in the world since the Good Friday Earthquake which struck Alaska in 1964, and the fifth largest since 1900. Thousands were killed by the resulting tsunamis, which were as high as 10 m (33 ft in some locations).
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