Indian Ocean Tsunami: 230,000 Killed by the Deadliest Wave in History
The Indian Plate subducted beneath the Burma Plate, unleashing tsunamis that drowned 230,000 people across 14 nations and buried coastal towns under walls of water reaching 30 metres high. Indonesia bore the brunt of this devastation, followed by Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand, marking the event as one of history's deadliest natural disasters.
December 26, 2004
22 years ago
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