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It happened in December 26, 2004 at 00;58. Its magnitude was of 9.1 that provoked a tsunami.
It affected 30km below the surface and 160km off the western coast of norhtern Sumatra. The cause of the earthquake was that the Burma plate subducted below the Indian plate. In some places of the plate, 1200km suddenly moved.

It was equivalent to 23,000 Hiroshima-type atomic bombs.

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The wave itself was only about 50cm high, but it was extremelly long, 500km, and it was travelling very fast.
When the water gets near the costline, the wave started to build up to 15m and in some areas up to 30m.
The tsunami was about 2 km inland in some areas. The reason was because much part of the coast was very low-lying.
It had sufficient energy to affect also Africa that is located 5000km far.

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14 countries were affected by the tsunami.
The most known are:
- Indonesia that was the most affected.
- India
- South Africa
- Thailand
- Islands such as Maldives and Madagascar.

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A lot of people was damaged in this impact.
5 millions people were injured, 150,000 at risk from infectious diseases and 230,000 deaths (only in Indonesia, 170,000)
Nowadays thousands are still missing.

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As all was devasted by the tsunami, fishing and tourism was affected and 250,000 people were unemployed.

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The tsunami damaged a lot of things, such as: coral reefs, forests, coastal wetlands, vegetation, rock formations and plant and animal biodiversity.
The solid and the liquid waste were spread all over the country. To be recovered will take a long time and significant resources.
The freshwater, that is the most necessary thing to live, was poisoned.