The Indonesian Tsunami Began with an Earthquake from Subduction Zone

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The Answer is A) A person in a cruise ship in the ocean, near the subduction zone - would feel nothing when the Indonesian tsunami passed (in the open ocean tsunamis are very wide and not very high).
B) A person swimming in the ocean, but near the shoreline closest to the subduction zone - would have experienced the full brunt of the ~10 m high wave (probably she/he would have been carried far inland and then swept back out to the ocean as the tsunami retreated) and probably would not have survived.
C) A person on the land closest to the subduction zone, but a quarter mile from the shoreline - would have experienced the full brunt of the ~10 m high wave (probably she/he would have been carried farther inland and then swept back out to the ocean as the tsunami retreated) and probably would not have survived.
D) A person on the land far from the subduction zone, but near the shoreline of the ocean that the tsunami travelled in - would have experienced a much smaller wave and hopefully would have survived, depending on the specific situation.

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