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Indonesia tsunami
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- The death toll from a volcano-triggered tsunami in Indonesia has risen to 373, with more than 1,400 people injured that hit southern Sumatra and western Java.
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- Tsunami struck almost without warning along the rim of the Sunda Strait.
- More than 3,000 coastal residents were forced to evacuate to higher ground, with a high-tide warning in place.
- The vast archipelago sits on the Pacific “Ring of Fire” has suffered its worst annual death toll from disasters in more than a decade.
- Earthquakes flattened parts of the tourist island of Lombok in July and August, and a double quake-and-tsunami killed more than 2,000 people on Sulawesi island in September.
- The tsunami was caused by an undersea landslide resulting from volcanic activity on Anak Krakatau and was exacerbated by abnormally high tides because of the full moon.
- Instability of the slope of an active volcano can create a rock slide that moves a large volume of water, creating local tsunami waves that can be very powerful.
- Anak Krakatau, which means child of Krakatau, is the island that emerged from the area once occupied by Krakatau, which was destroyed in 1883.
- It first appeared in 1927 and has been growing ever since.
Source
The Hindu