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2004 Indian Ocean earthquake: Information from Answers.com (6348 words) |
 | The tsunami caused by the December 26 2004 earthquake strikes Ao Nang, Thailand. |
| The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, known by the scientific community as the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, was an undersea earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC (07:58:53 local time) December 26 2004 with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. |
| In what may be the most significant positive result of the tsunami, the widespread devastation led the main rebel group GAM to declare a cease-fire on December 28, 2004, followed by the Indonesian government, and the two groups resumed long-stalled peace talks, which resulted in a peace agreement signed August 15, 2005. |
| tsunami: Definition and Much More from Answers.com (6532 words) |
| Tsunami is Japanese for "harbor wave." It is, in fact, a series of waves which travel outward on the ocean surface in all directions in a kind of ripple effect. |
| Tsunamis have been historically referred to as tidal waves because as they approach land, they take on the characteristics of a violent onrushing tide rather than the sort of cresting waves that are formed by wind action upon the ocean (with which people are more familiar). |
| The aftermath of the tsunami that struck Newfoundland in 1929. |
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