Did Tsunami Redraw Map of India Islands?
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Cartographers on Wednesday began studying whether the tsunami redrew India's southern archipelago &#151; breaking, tilting or even sinking the islands.
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An 8.5-magnitude earthquake that may rank among the 10 strongest in the past century struck the Indonesian island of Sumatra, unleashing tsunami waves that killed hundreds of people across India and Southeast Asia.
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WASHINGTON -- Yesterday's massive tsunami was triggered when a plate of earth given a bulldozer-like push into the ocean floor off western Indonesia's coast broke through layers of rocky resistance and created a rupture hundreds of miles in length, geologists said.
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One of the most powerful earthquakes in history Sunday triggered a tsunami that swept across thousands of miles of shoreline in southern Asia, swamping fishing villages in India and Sri Lanka as well tourist resorts in Thailand and the Maldives, and
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Denver: The high death toll in Asia caused by a massive tsunami might have been reduced had India and Sri Lanka been part of an international warning system designed to warn coastal communities about deadly waves, scientists say.
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Water supplies on some Indian Ocean islands may have been ruined for years or decades by the salt water that flooded them during the Asian tsunami.
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Tidal waves caused by 4th-largest quake in a century hit Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka the hardest. Scenes of damage from the tidal waves that struck thousands of miles apart from Asia to western Africa: at
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From lines scratched in ancient dirt to Medieval charts with drawings of monsters in unknown parts of the ocean to modern computer printouts, maps have served a vital role throughout human history. Now, one of the nation's most venerable mapmakers, the National Geographic Society, is updating its massive Atlas of the World.
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A huge earthquake has hit southern Asia, setting off a tsunami that has drowned hundreds in Sri Lanka and India, sent Indonesians rushing to high ground and washed
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December's tsunami clogged shipping lanes, rearranged coasts, and created new islands. Now geographers are helping redraw the region so relief can reach ports in need.
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KAMPUNG JAWA, Indonesia -- The tsunami of 2004 triggered the biggest humanitarian response in history, one that fed the hungry, headed off epidemics and engendered the hope that out of a calamity that took 216,000 lives, a better Indian Ocean rim would emerge.
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The direction of plate movements that sparked quakes off Indonesia&#39;s Sumatra spared the coast from damaging tsunamis, while geology and awareness may have reduced the damage, an expert said Thursday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- The first images yesterday of the seabed battered by the earthquake that triggered Asia's catastrophic tsunami revealed huge ruptures spanning several miles.
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Sunday, December 26, 2004 - The largest earthquake to strike the globe since 1964 has caused devastating tsunami waves that have killed thousands in south Asia.
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A U.S.-led team of geologists says a phenomena known as sediment folding may have added to the exceptionally large 2004 tsunami that struck Sumatra.
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Langi Martinga, 50, a tsunami victim from the from Car Nicobar island, looks on at a relief camp in Port Blair, in India&#39;s southeastern Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004.
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On the third day after the tsunami hit the Andamans, Nicobar island is still inaccessible. Telecommunication links are down and there are no ships ferrying between Andaman and Nicobar islands.