3. Sumatra earthquake A minute before 8:00 a colossal earthquake happened in Sumatra, Indonesia on December 26, 2004 (magnitude of about 9.3). It happened in the northern part of Indonesia and the Andaman Sea. It started in the Indian Ocean and went NE and hit Sumatra. It was the worst earthquake in the last 100 years to occur in the Indian Ocean. When the earthquake hit Sumatra it hit the Andaman inland .
4. Here is a map of Indonesia. Sumatra is on the left side of the pic.
5. Over 100 people died in the Sumatra earthquake. And it was vary hard to find the people who were lost, here is a policeman trying to find the lost and hurt people in the rubble.
27. The Tangshan, China earthquake on July 27 , 1976 is the deadliest earthquake recorded. About 242,000 people died from this earthquake.
28. The reason the 8.3 earthquake was so deadly is because buildings weren’t built to withstand the strong force of such an earthquake. The reason the buildings weren’t so strong is because it was in an area that didn’t expect earthquakes.
29. The second part of the reason it killed so many people is because there was only one road to the area that was not destroyed. 80% of the people were saved but an aftershock of a magnitude 7.1 reburied them in rubble.
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31. When the earthquake hit over one million people lay sleeping they didn’t know that the earthquake was about to happen.
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