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A large undersea earthquake near the island of Sumatra in Indonesia raised a huge section of the ocean floor, generating a tsunami in all directions. Most devastated were the nearby coastal areas of Sumatra, especially around Aceh province at the extreme northwest end of the island. But the series of tsunamis extended for thousands of miles, causing destruction in Thailand, Sri Lanka, and India, and as far away as Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Kenya and Tanzania in Africa.

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