Picture from after the Tsunami hits Batu Keras
THE only warning was the growl of a water wall up to five metres high.
"We all felt the quake but the first we knew of the tsunami was a roar," former Sydneysider Grahame Malligan said yesterday as he sifted through the rubble of his Bay Surf shop in the tiny fishing port of Batu Keras.
"When we looked up we saw fishing boats sort of jumping in the air out in the bay."
Indian Ocean Tsunami, Brunei Open
On December 26 a very strong earthquake occurred, 100 miles west of Sumatra. It spawned a Tsunami, a tidal wave, which hit the coasts of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand, taking the lives of at least 175,000 people.