[Petronski]

This event would seem to be very much like the Alaska quake of the early 60s, except the tidal wave in this event had far less distance to travel.

[BurbankKarl]

An official at Jakarta's Meteorology and Geophysics Office points to a seismograph read-out. More than 2,200 people were killed and hundreds more were missing feared dead after a huge earthquake off northern Indonesia triggered giant tidal waves and flash floods across western Asia