There are two main reasons. First, at the time, there was no tsunami warning system for the Indian ocean, only for the Pacific. Second, most people, even most educated Western tourists, did not know the warning signs of a tsunami.
Take a look at the video in the related links section. That was when the tsunami hit Thailand in 2004, it started when there was an earthquake in the Indian ocean. They can be very destructive, and deadly.
On the east coast, during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
No. While it was very deadly, there have been others that were larger and more powerful.
Tsunami
The most destructive, if not the largest, tsunami ever recorded was the Sumatra tsunami known as the Boxing Day 2004 tsunami, on 26 December 2004. An earthquake off the west coast of Sumatra in Indonesia sent a deadly tsunami across the Indian Ocean and smaller waves into the Pacific (and Southern) Ocean. The wave caused deaths or damage in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Burma, Bangladesh, India, and on the coast of Somalia in Africa.
burned them to death and killed them with deadly gases....the list goes on and on
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earthquakes that take place under water create a giant, deadly series of waves
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Law and Order Special Victims Unit - 1999 Deadly Ambition 14-15 was released on: USA: 20 February 2013 Japan: 12 February 2014
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