Reading Room: The Tsunami
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A collection of sites with first-person accounts and photos
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Arjuna Seneviratna witnessed and survived the tsunami wave that struck Sri Lanka. He talks about the harrowing experience.
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Areas hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami  slowly return to some kind of normality, but signs of devastation are everywhere.
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The tsunami of 2004 triggered the biggest humanitarian response in history, feeding the hungry, heading off epidemics and engendering the hope that out of a calamity that took 216,000 lives, a better Indian Ocean rim would emerge.
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Tidal waves, or tsunami, often set off by undersea earthquakes, have caused several major disasters in coastal communities over the years.
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People who survived the Asian tsunami face yet another risk - a potentially fatal fungal infection.
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The movement of tectonic plates takes no account of the puny plans of homo sapiens. So it was that tsunamis, the monstrously potent wave movements created by underwater earthquakes, this time off Indonesia, killed well over 20,000 people this weekend.
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Hawaii is among the most tsunami-ready places in the world. When an alert is issued, beachside sirens go off and urgent messages are flashed on television and broadcast on radio. Evacuation maps on telephone book covers point people to higher ground. But most of the time, no damaging tsunami hits the shore.
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The BBC's correspondents report on the devastation caused by tidal waves across the Indian Ocean.
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A day-by-day account charting how the Asian tsunami disaster unfolded.
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As parents come to terms with the tsunami calamity, children here are sharing stories of survival.
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THE devastating tsunami on Sunday was triggered by the fifth-largest quake for a century and the biggest for 40 years, which caused giant waves that could be detected across the planet.
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A statistical look at the Dec. 26 Indian Ocean tsunami disaster:
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Description: NPR&#39;s Robert Siegel talks with Geeta Pandey of the BBC about the devastation caused by the tsunami in the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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The destructive force of the recent tsunami is evident along coastlines throughout the Indian Ocean. But what was the impact on life beneath the waves?
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A tsunami striking the U.S. is not a question of if but when
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MEUNASAH BAK'U, Indonesia  - Teungku Sobirin lost seven children and his home to the tsunami that devastated Indonesia's Aceh province two years ago, but he believes there was a lesson in it for the war-weary province.