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The deadliest tsunami in recorded history was the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed almost 230,000 people in fourteen countries including (listed in order of confirmed fatalities) Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Somalia, Myanmar, Maldives, Malaysia, Tanzania, Seychelles, Bangladesh, South Africa, Yemen and Kenya. [218]
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250 deaths caused by tsunami. Run up heights of 14 metres on Eastern Java coast, 5 metres on Bali coasts. 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami: 26 December 2004: Aceh Large earthquake near Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia causing a transoceanic tsunami One of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history, with a death toll of 227,898.
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The Ancient Greek historian Thucydides suggested in his 5th century BC History of the Peloponnesian War that tsunamis were related to submarine earthquakes, [12] [13] but the understanding of tsunamis remained slim until the 20th century, and much remains unknown. Major areas of current research include determining why some large earthquakes do ...
Small tsunamis can also be caused by intense coastal storms, according to the U.S. Tsunami Warning System. These are known as meteotsunami because they are caused not by underwater earthquakes or ...
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