7.2 Richter magnitude earthquake that shook the Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra, Monday, October 25, 2010, caused a wave of deadly tsunami. All the settlements located on the west coast islands were hit by a tsunami that killed more than 400 people.
Indonesia is familiar with the disaster. In December 2004, the great tsunami occurred in Aceh. Then the next three months occurred in Nias. One more year, exactly on July 17, 2006, the tsunami also occurred in Pangandaran, West Java.
Tsunami track record was already since 6000 BC. Scientific media page, Livescience.com, records list all-powerful tsunamis that have occurred on Earth.
