Earthquake
Wednesday.
The undersea earthquake that occurred off the western coast of Sumatra, Indonesia on December 26 was the strongest in the world since the Good Friday Earthquake which struck Alaska in 1964 and the fourth largest since 1900. More than 56,000 deaths have so far been attributed to the resulting tsunamis.
There are links to pictures here.
Sumatra.
The town that lost at least one in ten of its population