On the day after Christmas, northwestern Aceh Province in Indonesia experienced a magnitude 9.0 earthquake that caused a tremendous tsunami, which battered coastal areas of the densely populated nations of southern Asia.
二○○四年十二月二十六日聖誕假期，印尼蘇門答臘島西北海域發生芮氏規模 9.0 大地震，引發強烈海嘯，直撲人口稠密的南亞諸國。