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21 minutes to evacuate: Experts predict Mediterranean tsunami with 100% probability
And while a one- or even six-metre tsunami might not be on the scale of the Indian Ocean event of 2004, which killed more than 230,000 people and displaced ...
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Queen and Duke of Edinburgh become members of prestigious Order of the Thistle
She worked in Kosovo in 1999, to investigate the site of a mass shooting, and also in Iraq where she was part of the team helping to identify victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean ...
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The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake came just three days after a magnitude 8.1 earthquake in the sub-antarctic Auckland Islands, an uninhabited region west of New Zealand, and Macquarie Island to Australia's north.
On December 26, 2004, at 7:59 am local time, an undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 9.1 struck off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Over the next seven hours, a tsunami —a series of immense ocean waves—triggered by the quake reached out across the Indian Ocean, devastating coastal areas as far away as East Africa.
Oct 2, 2018 · The 2004 quake ruptured a 900-mile stretch along the Indian and Australian plates 31 miles below the ocean floor. Rather than delivering one violent jolt, the quake lasted an unrelenting 10 ...
Dec 25, 2019 · Shortly before 08:00 on 26 December 2004, a magnitude-9.1 earthquake struck under the sea in northern Indonesia. In the hours that followed, a massive tsunami fanned out across the Indian Ocean,...
Dec 24, 2014 · The Boxing Day tsunami in 2004 is believed to be the deadliest tsunami in history, killing more than 230,000 people across 14 countries. It began at 7:59am local time on December 26, 2004, when a 9.1-magnitude quake struck off the northern tip of Sumatra in Indonesia.
Dec 23, 2014 · The 2004 tsunami was the deadliest and one of the most destructive in recorded history. Tsunami runup heights of more than 30 meters were observed along the west coast of Sumatra.
The Indian Ocean tsunami in December 2004 struck without warning and killed thousands. See photos of the devastating destruction left in its wake.
Dec 26, 2004 · On 26 December 2004, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake (3.316 N, 95.854 E, depth 30 km) occurred off the coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. The tsunami generated by the earthquake was recorded nearly world-wide and killed more people than any other tsunami in recorded history, almost 230,000 missing and presumed dead.
Dec 25, 2014 · A decade ago, one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded struck off the coast of Indonesia, triggering a tsunami that swept away entire communities around the Indian Ocean.
Dec 26, 2004 · Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, deadly tsunami that hit the coasts of several countries of South and Southeast Asia and caused immense destruction.
