Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami A very tragic events going on in Earth Meccaβs porch. The earthquake and Tsunami in Aceh on Sunday morning, December 26, 2004. Almost 500,000 lives drifting in an instant in the entire world that the rim bordering the Indian Ocean. In the region of Aceh was the biggest casualty in the world and the building of thousands of smashed corpses, thousands also lost and not found and also thousands of corpses in masse. The earthquake occurred exactly on time at 7:58:53 GMT. The epicenter was located at longitude 3,316 Β° N 95,854 Β° E almost 160 km west of Aceh as deep as 10 kilometers. The earthquake had a magnitude of 9.3 according to the Richter scale and with this earthquake is most intense in the past 40 years that hit Aceh, West coast of Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, the East coast of India, Sri Lanka, even to the East coast of Africa. The earthquake was the third-largest recorded and had the longest duration of faulting ever obs...