[Paul C. Jesup]

They look like before and after images of "The Day After Tomorrow" Tropical Style.

I am serious, it look's like someone dropped nuclear bombs on those areas.

[RayChuang88]

They look like before and after images of "The Day After Tomorrow" Tropical Style.

From the information I got from NOAA's web pages, it appears when the tsunami hit northwestern Sumatra the wave was least four meters tall! I think the wave may have been as high as ten meters tall, which explains why the DigitalGlobe pictures taken by the QuickBird imaging satellite show the town of Banda Aceh nearly scoured clean by the tsunami waves.