Indian Ocean tsunami
May 9 2007, Irani

Though the modern history recorded the deadliest tsunami of 2004 as the most nerve wrecking and devastating earthquake occurred in the Indian Ocean, sweeping away about 229,866 people, killing 186,983, according to a United nations report, it is not...

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