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What would become known as the world's worst tsunami and remains the most devastating disaster to tear through Asia was triggered by a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Indonesia.
Aerial overview of the location of the landslide and tsunami. On September 16th, 2023 at 12:35 UTC, a 25.5 × 10 ^ 6 m 3 (33.4 × 10 ^ 6 cu yd) rockslide occurred on the slope of Dickson Fjord in Northeast Greenland.
Tsunami modelling executed by the University of Tokyo and Building Research Institute of Japan computed the tsunami to be 3.6 m (12 ft) in Suzu; 3 m (9.8 ft) in Noto; 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) in Shika and 2 m (6 ft 7 in) in Jōetsu, Niigata. [103] Flooding by the tsunami exceeded 4 m (13 ft) along the east and western part of the peninsula.
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, violently in Aceh , and severely in Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu , and Khao Lak ...
People gathered at mass graves in Indonesia, Thailand and other places along the Indian Ocean
The 2004 Sri Lanka tsunami train wreck is the largest single rail disaster in world history by death toll, with 1,000 fatalities or more. It occurred when a crowded passenger train (No 50, Matara Express) was destroyed on a coastal railway in Sri Lanka by a tsunami that followed the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. The tsunami subsequently caused ...