What are you looking at is the result of the Mega Thrust Earthquake that rocked the area of Banda Aceh, Indonesia. The Earthquake was caught to be around about 9.1-9.3 which is INSANITY and it was longest duration ever 8.3 to 10 minutes! In geologic terms, the Indian tectonic plate pushed in a northeasterly direction underneath the Burma plat resulting in 15 meters (approximately 45ft!) of displacement. As you can obviously tell, the chaos that ensued was massive and deadly. Hopefully, something like this doesn't come around again for quite sometime.
-Alfred McGilberry
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