33 feet high @ 500mph groundspeed, link to cnn article
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exerpt from reuters.com
The tsunami spared no one. Western tourists were killed as they sunbathed on the beach, poor villagers were drowned in their seaside homes and fishermen died in flimsy boats. The 21-year-old grandson of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej was killed on a jet-ski.
ROWS OF DEAD CHILDREN
Soldiers in Indonesia searched for bodies in treetops and in the wreckage of homes smashed by the tsunami, triggered by the 9.0 magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of northern Sumatra island killing at least 4,491 people there.
"It smells so bad ... The human bodies are mixed in with dead animals like dogs, fish, cats and goats," said marine colonel Buyung Lelana, head of an evacuation team in Sumatra's Aceh province searching for more dead.
Volunteers laid bodies of children in rows under sarongs at makeshift morgues. Others were stacked in white fish crates.
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