Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern ...

All the five strongest earthquakes to occur since records began have struck ... Getty Images It also caused a series of tsunamis, with the biggest waves hitting Tohoku, a region in north Japan ...

The largest-ever tsunami wave was recorded in Alaska’s Lituya Bay in 1958 following an earthquake and a colossal landslide, and towered at a whopping 1720 feet. Their wave periods—or the time ...

All the five strongest earthquakes to occur since records began have struck there ... followed in the ensuing weeks — many of which were magnitude 6.0 and stronger. It also caused a series of tsunamis ...

The movement of trillions of tons of rock resulted in the largest, most deadly tsunami on record. Oceanside cities ... From there, waves spread out at 500 mph across the Bay of Bengal and the ...

“Tsunami is a Japanese word,” said Syamsidik ... west of the Indonesian island of Sumatra set off a mammoth wave that was recorded as high as 16 storeys, and in some places as fast as 300mph ...

Having just learned about tsunamis in school, she was one of a few people to recognise the warning signs of the devastating wave that struck moments later on Boxing Day, 2004. The Indian Ocean tsunami ...