The natural disaster my group choose was Nueva Guinea Tsunami:
The 1998 Papua New Guinea earthquake was a magnitude 7.0 earthquake that took place in the early evening of Friday, 17 July 1998.
The earthquake struck the north coast region of Papua New Guinea, 25 km (16 mi) from the coast near Aitape, and caused a large undersea landslide, which in turn caused a tsunami.
The tsunami resulted in at least 2,200 people being killed, thousands being injured, about 9,500 homeless and about 500 missing.
The area worst hit was a 30 km (19 mi) coastal strip running north-west from Aitape to the village of Sissano. Several villages in the path of the tsunami were completely destroyed and others extensively damaged.
The earthquake occurred at 6:49pm local time along the boundary of the Australia and the Pacific tetonic plates at
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2°58′S 141°55′E / 2.96°S 141.92°E.
And here there's a video that shows the way the tsunami was created and how was the civilization after this natural disaster:
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