geoscience victoria confirmed the 5 . 3 quake did not inspire a tsunami . the 2004 china ocean typhoon , who had a magnitude of 9 . 0 , started a series of lethal tsunamis on december 26 , 2004 that killed over 270 , 000 people , marking it the deaths flood in recorded history .
A tsunami is a series of waves created when a body of water rapidly displaced on a massive scale.