Wow! Imagine what it must have sounded like up close.
Five miles from the coast near the town of Merak, one survivor described the moment the wave hit... 'We saw a great black thing coming towards us. It was very high, and we soon saw that it was water. Trees and houses were washed away...'
Tsunami five miles inland. It must have seemed like the end of the world. For a lot of people it was.
What a photo!