The magnitude 9.0 – 9.3 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake triggered a series of lethal tsunamis on 26 December 2004 that killed almost 300,000 people , making them the deadliest tsunamis in recorded history . The tsunamis killed people over an area ranging from the immediate vicinity of the quake in Southeast Asia ( Indonesia , Thailand , and the northwestern coast of Malaysia ) , to thousands of kilometers away in the Indian subcontinent ( Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , the Maldives ) , the Horn of Africa ( Somalia ) , and the African Great Lakes ( Kenya and Tanzania )
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
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