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Waves of up to 15m hit the coastlines of Sumatra, Thailand, India and Sri Lanka, with another report saying the tsunami reached up to 30m in some areas. The waves travelled about two kilometres inland in some areas.
Goff says people tend to underrate landslides, both under and above water, as causes. The largest historic tsunami happened in 1958 when a landslide fell into a fjord in Lituya Bay in Alaska, he says. That one generated a wave 30 metres high.. That mega-tsunami claimed only five lives because of the remoteness of the area, and is legendary because of the freak survival of a father and son fishing.