The footage was captured on a beach in Mirissa, a popular tourist town on the country's south coast in the Matara District, located around 93 miles south of Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital.

The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, also known as the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake, was a geological event of unexampled scale.

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