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dec 26, 2004 - 2004 Major Event 2 Sumatra Tsunami

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Sumatra, Indonesia was hit by a massive tsunami caused by a 9.1 magnitude earthquake. The tsunami pushed three giant waves onto land in 14 different countries, killing more than 230,000 people. Around the same amount of people went missing, including a majority of them children. The tsunami pushed water more than two miles inland in some places.
http://time.com/tsunamis-wake/

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dec 26, 2004
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~ 20 years ago

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