LESSONS FROM THE TSUNAMI DISASTER FOR U.S

 Harun Yahya

The earthquake of 26 December 2004 in Southeast Asia, the largest in the last 40 years and the fifth largest since 1900, there were 9 on the Richter scale. The quake and tsunami waves that followed led to the disaster that killed more than 220,000 people. Fault area of ​​1000 square kilometers which arise due to the movement of plates beneath the surface of the earth and the giant energy generated by a giant chunk of land that move, combined with the energy giant that occurs in the ocean to form the tsunami waves. The tsunami waves that hit the Southeast Asian countries such as Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Maldives and Seychelles, and even the coast of Africa like Somalia, which is located around 5,000 kilometers.