Century’s fifth biggest earthquake and a huge tsunami destroyed a large part of India, Shri Lanka, Thailand, and Maldives. Slashdot is covering the story. You can find more news and pictures at Google News India. A page with few more links about earthquakes is here.
Ouch. 8.9 on Richter scale is *a lot*. If such thing happened on land, then entire area would be completely devastated.