What does 2004, water and the day after Christmas have in common? The 2004 tsunami. Its 2016 now so it has been over ten years since the 2004 tsunami. Basically what happened there was a hurricane on top of an earthquake. Many of the people who were there were on vacation for the holidays. Thousands and thousands of people had died or gone missing from this tsunami. Have you ever been in a wave pool? Well, it’s like that but times one hundred. We had no clue what a tsunami was at the time. So there weren’t any warnings because we didn’t know how they started. Something that people saw around the time it was going to start was animals were going to higher ground than normal. Also, the water started going in towards the ocean. People went to check it out because humans are very curious and you don’t really get to see the bottom of the ocean. The tsunami hit around 1 am ( their time).
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The tectonic plates started to push against each other and it started to build pressure for a long time. The earthquake had a magnitude between about 9.1 and 9.3.. It is the third largest earthquake in the world to this day of 2/25/16. The rupture was over six hundred miles long. The energy of it was like 23,000 Hiroshima bombs going off at once. It had different sections the southern part, south west, and eastwards parts. This was the deadliest recent tsunami. It killed over thousands of people from around the
The tectonic plates started to push against each other and it started to build pressure for a long time. The earthquake had a magnitude between about 9.1 and 9.3.. It is the third largest earthquake in the world to this day of 2/25/16. The rupture was over six hundred miles long. The energy of it was like 23,000 Hiroshima bombs going off at once. It had different sections the southern part, south west, and eastwards parts. This was the deadliest recent tsunami. It killed over thousands of people from around the