ABSTRACT
The Indian OceanTsunami of December 26, 2004 was the deadliest ocean related disaster in living memory, claiming about 300,000 human lives. The event was associated with the world’s second largest earthquake of M9.3 which occurred off the coast of Sumatra in Sunda trench. Initially, the magnitude of this earthquake was estimated to be 9.0. This became an extraordinary event due to its magnitude and rarity of this phenomenon in the Indian Ocean region relative to Pacific Ocean, where tsunami are very frequent. The tsunami from Sumatra propagated throughout the oceans on the earth with devastating effects on the Indian Ocean rim countries like Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, Sri lanka, Maldives and Africa (Figure 3.1).
