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(From Reinsurance)
If the world needed a reminder of the awesome power of earthquakes, then the magnitude 9.0 tremor that occurred off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on 26 December 2004 proved an unwelcome addition to the festive season.
The earthquake moved the Indian plate 20 metres along the Burma plate and pushed the Indian side of the fault line upwards by several metres in the fourth biggest earthquake since 1900. The uplift sparked off a tsunami many metres high that devastated the coasts of Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Burma and India, before going on to inflict damage on the coats of Somalia and ...