Tsunami aceh

A very heartbreaking events going on in Earth Mecca’s porch. The earthquake and Tsunami in Aceh on Sunday morning, December 26, 2004. Approximately 500,000 lives drifting in an instant in the entire world that the rim bordering the Indian Ocean. In the region of Aceh was the biggest casualty in the world and the building of thousands of smashed corpses, thousands also lost and not found and also thousands of corpses in masse.
The earthquake occurred exactly on time at 7:58:53 GMT. The epicenter was located at longitude 3,316 ° N 95,854 ° E approximately 160 km west of Aceh as deep as 10 kilometers. The earthquake had a magnitude of 9.3 according to the Richter scale and with this earthquake is most intense in the past 40 years that hit Aceh, West coast of Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, the East coast of India, Sri Lanka, even to the East coast of Africa.

The panic occurred in the duration of the longest in the history of recorded seismicity of the Earth, which is about 500-600 seconds (10 minutes). Some experts said the outcome of the earthquake strength of this earthquake, is able to make the entire globe to vibrate with the amplitude of vibration above 1 cm. Of the earthquake centered in the middle of the ocean, Indonesia, also sparked some earthquakes in various places in the world.The earthquake caused a tsunami that resulted in approximately 230,000 people died in 8 countries.