Terrifying!!

{Edited again! If you don't have DSL or Cable, this animation may load very slowly.}

Tsunami Animation from the National Institute
of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology


{Edited: Now they've upgraded the earthquake to a 9!! The aftershocks of the big quake are 6's and a 7!!

Unbelievable! USGS site }

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Can you envision a wall of water high as the trees...
traveling toward you at 300 mph (500km) ?

We live 5 miles (as the crow flies) from the Pacific Coast, and this is about as close as I wish to get despite my love for the beach.

So sad.

Sea surges kill thousands in Asia
Sunday, 26 December, 2004, 12:16 GMT

"Thousands of people have been killed across south and east Asia in massive sea surges triggered by the strongest earthquake in the world for 40 years.

The 8.9 magnitude quake struck under the sea near Aceh in north Indonesia, generating a wall of water that sped across thousands of kilometres of sea.

At least 1,500 died in Sri Lanka and more than 1,000 were killed in India."

Rest of the BBC Story

and

Q&A: How the tsunami happened