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For a long time the India Plate was scraping against the Burma plate. Eventually, the scraping came to a breaking point. A 750-mile section of earth snapped and popped up as a new 40-foot-high cliff. This created one of the biggest earthquakes ever, 9.2 to 9.3 on the Richter scale!

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Next, the water started to pull back like someone was sucking it through a giant straw! This left thousands of fish exposed on the beach.

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Then, the water stared to bubble and get very foamy. This worried many people.

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People near the epicenter of the earthquake were swallowed up in less than 30 minutes. The tsunami didn’t reach others for an hour, two hours, even six hours or more. The wave was instantly pushed up 40 feet by the rising land. Then the water came back down, and the collapse created a series of waves!

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After the earthquake debris was left every where and many people were hurt, badly injured, and many did not make it out alive. Lots of people were having trouble breathing problems because of all the mud and debris they had swallowed. Others were left with literally NOTHING! No clothes on their backs or coins in there pockets.