Boxing Day Tsunami 2004

On Boxing Day 2004 a massive earthquake creating a Tsunami caused devastation around the Indian Ocean resulting in the deaths of more than 300,000 people.

Giant forces that had been building up deep in the Earth for hundreds of years were released suddenly on December 26, shaking the ground violently and unleashing a series of killer waves that sped across the Indian Ocean at the speed of a Jet Liner.

Indonesia was seriously affected by the Tsunami created by the Indian Ocean Earthquake on the 26th of December 2004, swamping the northern and Western Coastal areas of Sumatra. It left more than 300,000 dead & 1.7 million homeless.

The epicenter of the 9.0 magnitude quake was under the Indian Ocean near the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

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