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Wife. >> so indonesian authorities say that this was one and a half meter high wave that rushed in to distances of about 500 meters inland, leaving behind death and destruction. the cause of it, they say, was not an earthquake as we saw as recently as last september with another earthquake that created a tsunami that killed some 2,000 people in another part of indonesia. this, they say, was caused by a volcano on a volcanic island called anak krakatoa in the sunda strait. now, some of our viewers may recognize the name krakatoa. that was the cataclysmic volcano in 1883 that killed more than 30...

Kathy was saying she lives in this area and she doesn't recall something like this happening. >> right. natalie, george, we need some sort of displacement of water to take place. that's how a tsunami is formed. but it's triggered by an earthquake, that's typically what we hear the trigger mechanism to be, maybe a landslide or perhaps even the shifts of tectonic plates underneath the weather, but this particular instance appears to be volcanic activity. and we have video of that volcano actually erupting. this is the krakatau volcano. what took place was actually just as exciting aboveground as...