The Sumatra Tsunami
5. I think the Sumatra tsunami was more deadly because it killed more than 230’000 people and destroyed a lot of buildings, trees, sea life, power stations and bridges. The Japanese tsunami only killed 15’000 people compared to the Sumatra tsunami, it didn’t kill many people but was still very deadly and impacted Japan a lot. Both tsunamis left too many dead, too many people left homeless and heaps of people missing and probably dead. Both earthquakes were caused by extremely high magnitude earthquakes (9.1 for the Sumatra tsunami and 9 for the Japanese tsunami). The tsunami also made everything lose power for a very long time. The Japanese tsunami lasted about 5 minutes then pasted by and eventually