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For perspective, roughly 230,000 people lost their lives in the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, the deadliest natural disaster of the 21st century." How To Watch Fox Weather
A tsunami warning affecting more than 5 million people has been lifted after a major earthquake rocked Northern California. The U.S. Geological Survey reported the tremor, with a magnitude of 7.0 ...
Coastal areas in Northern California began evacuating residents after a 7.0 earthquake off Humboldt County's coast prompted a tsunami warning. Luckily, the worst didn't play out. But emergency ...
"No tsunami danger exists for the U.S. west coast, British Columbia and Alaska," the National Tsunami Warning Center said in an update about an hour after the quake was first reported.
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 ...
At least two people were killed by the tsunami in Ukai District, [124] however the tsunami death toll may have been at least 26. [125] The earthquake and tsunami damaged or destroyed 90 percent of the town's buildings. [126] The tsunami capsized many fishing vessels and carried some onto land.
Map showing the provinces of Thailand affected. Thailand was one of the 14 countries affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami on 26 December 2004. It left behind unprecedented damage and destruction in six provinces of Thailand, impacting 407 villages, completely destroying 47 of them, including prominent tourist resorts like Khao Lak.
It led to 5 million people being put under tsunami warnings in the immediate aftermath. ... a 9.2-magnitude earthquake in Alaska sent a tsunami toward California and did heavy damage along the ...