The tsunami death toll was still mounting in the days leading up to my departure from the UK for Seychelles, and in the days after I arrived. The most powerful earthquake in 40 years triggered massive tidal waves that hit coastlines across Asia today, killing more than 11,000 people in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, Malaysia and Thailand. The Boxing Day tsunami would be the deadliest in recorded history, taking a staggering 230,000 lives in a matter of hours. The number of people known to have died in Friday's earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia has risen to 1,347, disaster response officials say. Over 15,00 people died in the earthquake and resulting tsunami. Tsunami 2004 came when Nate and Fernando went vacationing in Sri Lanka. [clarification needed] … In Banda Aceh, the landmass closest to the quake’s epicenter, tsunami waves topped 100 feet. Kuppusamy Sivakumar (2009).
12:01AM GMT 08 Jan 2005 . This, of course, is the time-tested theory behind having a “canary in a coal mine” (which happens to be a good song by The Police, by the way). “Lots of animals died in the tsunami … goats, dogs, cats, etc.” Still, Corea has heard several accounts of strange animal behavior in the minutes before the tsunami hit the region. An 8.9 magnitude earthquake under the sea near Aceh, north Indonesia, at 0759 local time (0059 GMT) generated the biggest tsunami the world has seen for at least 40 years. 'Elephants began trumpeting at the time the earthquake struck . In 2004, many villagers in Thailand and Indonesia who live on low earnings lost all they had in the disaster, as the water took everything away and destroyed it. Kuppusamy Sivakumar (2009). Sri Lanka was one of the countries struck by the tsunami resulting from the Indian Ocean earthquake on December 26, 2004. Boxing Day tsunami: The facts about the 2004 Indian Ocean disaster The exact death toll still remains unknown. The Asian tsunami on 26 December 2004 claimed the lives of 149 people who are British citizens or have close links to the UK, say police. This article lists the countries affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and the resulting tsunami in alphabetical order – for detailed information about each country affected by the earthquake and tsunami, see their individual articles.Countries with a smaller number of casualties, as well as those that lost citizens who were travelling abroad, are listed further on in the article. Journal of applied animal welfare science : JAAWS, 8 (1), 69-71 PMID: 16004546.