Monday, December 27, 2004

Tsunamis: Facts About Killer Waves

Tsunamis: Facts About Killer Waves

National Geographic News
December 27, 2004

The Christmas weekend tsunami that was generated by the most powerful earthquake in decades is believed to have killed more than 20,000 people and displaced a million more.
The epicenter of Sunday's magnitude-9 quake was under the Indian Ocean near the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Within hours killer waves slammed into the shores of Indian Ocean countries, snatching lives and demolishing property from Africa to Thailand.

While relatively rare in recent centuries in the Indian Ocean, tsunamis have been generated in every ocean of the world, but none more so than the Pacific Ocean. Sooner or later every shoreline is struck by a tsunami.

Find out the essential facts about these giant waves: what causes them, how they work, the most disastrous on record, and signs that warn of their arrival. This is information you need to protect yourself.

Read the full story >>

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