Hikkaduwa

Hikkaduwa is a place on the south coast of Sri Lanka.

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It was affected by the tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.

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Tsunami: A tsunami (pronounced soo-nah-mee or tsoo-nah-mee ) is a natural phenomenon consisting of a series of waves generated when water in a lake or the sea is rapidly displaced on a massive scale. Earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions and large meteorite impacts all have the potential to generate a...

2004 Indian Ocean earthquake: The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, known by the scientific community as the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, was an undersea earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC (07:58:53 local time) on December 26 2004. The tsunami generated by the earthquake killed approximately 275,000 people, making it one of th...