Dec. 26, 2004: A colossal earthquake with a magnitude between 9.1 - TopicsExpress



          

Dec. 26, 2004: A colossal earthquake with a magnitude between 9.1 and 9.3 shook Indonesia and killed an estimated 230,000 people, most due to the tsunami and the lack of aid afterward, coupled with deviating and unsanitary conditions. The quake was named the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, and the tsunami has become known as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Those waves traveled the globe – as far as Nova Scotia and Peru.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 03:45:20 +0000

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