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    The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami killed over 225,000 people across several countries. An undersea earthquake near Sumatra, Indonesia triggered a massive tsunami that devastated coastal areas as far as East Africa. Waves reached heights of 30 feet. Indonesia suffered the highest death toll, estimated at over 200,000 people in Aceh Province alone. Thousands more were reported dead or missing in Sri Lanka, India, and the Maldives. The environmental damage was also severe, with villages, resorts, and land destroyed or contaminated with debris and salt water.

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    The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami killed over 225,000 people across several countries. An undersea earthquake near Sumatra, Indonesia triggered a massive tsunami that devastated coastal areas as far as East Africa. Waves reached heights of 30 feet. Indonesia suffered the highest death toll, estimated at over 200,000 people in Aceh Province alone. Thousands more were reported dead or missing in Sri Lanka, India, and the Maldives. The environmental damage was also severe, with villages, resorts, and land destroyed or contaminated with debris and salt water.

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    The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami killed over 225,000 people across several countries. An undersea earthquake near Sumatra, Indonesia triggered a massive tsunami that devastated coastal areas as far as East Africa. Waves reached heights of 30 feet. Indonesia suffered the highest death toll, estimated at over 200,000 people in Aceh Province alone. Thousands more were reported dead or missing in Sri Lanka, India, and the Maldives. The environmental damage was also severe, with villages, resorts, and land destroyed or contaminated with debris and salt water.

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    The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami killed over 225,000 people across several countries. An undersea earthquake near Sumatra, Indonesia triggered a massive tsunami that devastated coastal areas as far as East Africa. Waves reached heights of 30 feet. Indonesia suffered the highest death toll, estimated at over 200,000 people in Aceh Province alone. Thousands more were reported dead or missing in Sri Lanka, India, and the Maldives. The environmental damage was also severe, with villages, resorts, and land destroyed or contaminated with debris and salt water.

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    Introduction The word “tsunami” comes from the Japanese Passive voice
    General language meaning Great Waves (Tsu: port and
    Classification Nami: wave). Adapan agreed definition many Present tense
    people is a tsunami is a natural disaster caused
    by rising sea waves to the mainland at high
    speeds due to the earthquake centered under the
    sea. Tsunami is quite dangerous, especially for
    those who live in Area beach. With great power,
    he will sweep everything in its path.
    Paragraph 1 On December 26, 2004, at 7:59 AM local time, an Present tense
    Description undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 9.1
    struck off the coast of the Indonesian island Past tense
    of Sumatra. Over the next seven hours, a tsunami
    —a series of immense ocean waves—triggered by
    the quake reached out across the Indian Ocean,
    devastating coastal areas as far away as East
    Africa. Some locations reported that the waves had
    reached a height of 30 feet (9 metres) or more
    when they hit the shoreline.
    Paragraph 2 The tsunami killed at least 225,000 people across a Past tense
    Description dozen countries, with Indonesia, Sri
    Lanka, India, Maldives, and Thailand sustaining Descriptive but
    massive damage. Indonesian officials estimated factual language
    that the death toll there alone ultimately exceeded
    200,000, particularly in northern
    Sumatra’s Aceh province. Tens of thousands were
    reported dead or missing in Sri Lanka and India, a
    large number of them from the Indian Andaman
    and Nicobar Islands territory.
    Paragraph 3 The low-lying island country of Maldives reported Past tense
    Description more than a hundred casualties and immense
    economic damage. Several thousand non-Asian Passive voice
    tourists vacationing in the region also were
    reported dead or missing. The lack of food, clean Past perfect
    water, and medical treatment—combined with the
    enormous task faced by relief workers trying to get
    supplies into some remote areas where roads had
    been destroyed or where civil war raged—
    extended the list of casualties.
    Closing Long-term environmental damage was severe as Past tense
    statement well, with villages, tourist resorts, farmland, and
    fishing grounds demolished or inundated with
    debris, bodies, and plant-killing salt water.

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