A general view of the scene at the Marina beach in Madras on 26 December 2004, following the arrival of tidal waves in the region. The home minister warned that tidal waves have devastated the southern Indian coastline, killing 1000 people. (photo credit STR/AFP/Getty Images).
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Here is some background information about the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. On December 26, 2004, a Earthquake It struck off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia with an estimated magnitude of 9.1.
National Center for Environmental Information Statistics:
227,898 people were listed as dead or missing and presumed dead.
The material loss in the Indian Ocean region was $10 billion.
tsunami Formed by the displacement of water – a landslide, volcanic eruption, or, in this case, the sliding of the boundary between Earth’s two tectonic plates – slabs of rock 50 to 650 feet (15 to 200 m) thick that carry the Earth The continents and seas of the U.S. lie on an underground ocean of much warmer, semi-solid material.
The December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was caused by the displacement of about 600 miles (1,000 km) of the boundary between the India and Burma plates off the west coast of North Sumatra. The convergence of other plates affects the area, and at the epicenter of the earthquake, the India Plate is moving northeastward about 2 inches (5 cm) per year relative to the Burma Plate. Subsequent aftershocks were distributed along the plate boundary from the epicenter to near the Andaman Islands.
The 9.1 magnitude earthquake was the strongest since the March 28, 1964 earthquake that struck Prince William Sound in Alaska. It was the third strongest since 1900.
two strong earthquakes, May 22, 1960 in Chile (9.5) And March 28, 1964 in Alaska (9.2), Also caused a tsunami.
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