December 26, 2004 M9.1 Earthquake & Indian Ocean Tsunami In the early morning hours of December 26, 2004, the Earth unleashed one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded. A massive M9.1 megathrust rupture off the coast of Sumatra violently displaced the seafloor, sending walls of water racing across the Indian Ocean. Within minutes, coastlines were swallowed. Entire communities vanished. Waves traveled thousands of kilometers, striking country after country with almost no warning. By the
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In 2004, a large earthquake in the Indian Ocean triggered the largest tsunami in recorded history. One of the countries hit by the tsunami was Sri Lanka, where the wave caused one of the worst train disasters in human history when it hit the Queen of the Sea passenger line, which was carrying 1,500 passengers along Sri Lanka's west coast. Watch Destruction Decoded on Wednesdays at 8pm on National Geographic UK. | National Geographic UK
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The footage filmed on a beach captures one of the earliest visual records of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, recorded shortly after a powerful undersea earthquake struck off the coast of Sumatra. At first, the scene does not appear immediately catastrophic. The shoreline looks calm, though the ocean begins to behave in unusual ways, with the water withdrawing from the beach and then returning in fast, uneven surges. These early movements were not the largest tsunami waves, which made the danger d
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