Why the 2004 Tsunami Killed 230,000 Humans but Virtually No Animals
A powerful lesson about survival — and more
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1 min readNov 13, 2021
On December 26, 2004, a tsunami in the Indian Ocean killed about 230,000 people, while virtually no animals died. They fled to higher ground before the water arrived. (See, for example, the National Geographic article “Did Animals Sense Tsunami Was Coming?”
