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Tilly Smith (born 1994) is a British woman who, as a child, was credited with saving the lives of approximately 100 beachgoers at Mai Khao Beach in Thailand by warning them minutes before the arrival of the tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.
The tsunami heights in Sumatra: [77] 15–30 m (49–98 ft) on the west coast of Aceh; 6–12 m (20–39 ft) on the Banda Aceh coast; 6 m (20 ft) on the Krueng Raya coast; 5 m (16 ft) on the Sigli coast; 3–6 m (9.8–19.7 ft) on the north coast of Weh Island directly facing the tsunami source
The magnitude-9.1 earthquake of Dec. 26, 2004, 150 miles off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, packed the energy of 23,000 atomic bombs, according to National Geographic.
A BBC reporter looks back to the day in 2004 when the tsunami hit while she was on the Andaman and Nicobar islands. ... northwest Sumatra under the Indian Ocean, it unleashed a devastating tsunami ...
Indonesia's Ministry of Health confirmed 131,028 deaths on June 18, 2005, mainly in the northern province Aceh of the island Sumatra. 37,000 people are missing. Malaysia. Despite its proximity to the incident, Malaysia escaped the kind of damage that struck countries thousands of miles further away (most of its western coast is shielded by ...
A tsunami that devastated the area around Indonesia's Sunda Strait, leaving at least 222 dead and hundreds more injured, struck fast and without warning on Saturday. While most tsunamis have ...
Indonesia was the first country to be seriously affected by the earthquake and tsunami created by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on 26 December 2004, swamping the northern and western coastal areas of Sumatra, and the smaller outlying islands off Sumatra.
The 2005 Nias–Simeulue earthquake occurred on 28 March off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia in the subduction zone of the Sunda megathrust. At least 915 people were killed, mostly on the island of Nias. It was among the top 10 most powerful recorded worldwide since 1900, [4] with a magnitude of 8.6 that caused a relatively small ...