Welcome to Smoke + Ash - A Disaster Podcast. This podcast shares the terrifying and miraculous true stories of humans encountering cataclysmic disasters.

This season, we’re diving into the Indian Ocean  Tsunami — one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern history, triggered by a hidden fault line deep beneath the Indian Ocean.

On today’s episode, Ashley takes you far below the waves to the place where it all begins — not with water, but with rock. As tectonic plates lock in place and centuries of pressure build, we uncover how a silent rupture beneath Sumatra sets the stage for a global catastrophe.

The shaking lasts ten minutes. And when it ends — the ocean starts to move.

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