geoscience australia said the 5 . 3 quake did not generate a tsunami . the 2004 timor ocean typhoon , having had a magnitude of 9 . 0 , triggered a line of explosive tsunamis on december 26 , 2004 that killed over 270 , 000 people , marking it the deadliest disaster in known history .
A tsunami is a series of waves created when a body of water rapidly displaced on a massive scale.