Low Elevation Helps Maldives in Tsunami
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Many people thought last month's tsunami would turn this tropical tourist paradise into a modern-day Atlantis. After all, the islands that make up the Maldives average only 3 feet in height.
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Many believe the tsunami that devastated this tourist hotspot and killed thousands had one positive side: By washing away rampant development, it returned the beaches to nature.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  - One of the most powerful  earthquakes in history hit southern Asia Sunday, unleashing a  tsunami on Sri Lanka and India and swamping tourist isles in  Thailand and the Maldives to kill almost 9,500 people.
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The magnitude of the tsunami that killed tens of thousands and remade the coasts of the Asian subcontinent was slowly gauged across the world.
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A tsunami warning system is now in place for Indian Ocean countries, but experts said Wednesday there is still room for improvement in methods to convey the alerts to coastal communities.
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NEW YORK - The devastation in southern Asian areas hit by tidal waves this weekend had far less of an economic impact than it might have, given the extreme poverty of many of the regions.
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Forty tons of water donated by Scottish companies are flown to the Maldives as part of the tsunami aid effort.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Jan. 22 -- A lone tsunami survivor has been rescued from a remote Indian island, officials said Saturday, a rare moment of hope in the Indian Ocean since the giant waves struck on Dec. 26.
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The devastating earthquake that struck the Indian Ocean probably caused some islands to move by several metres.
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India builds helicopter landing pads in the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands to speed up tsunami relief efforts.
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The Maldives said on Monday 52 people,  including two British tourists, had drowned in tsunami waves  that struck the Indian Ocean archipelago on Sunday, and has  evacuated six of its 200 inhabited islands completely.
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It could have been a dark day for the Maldives, a nation of over a thousand islands, but it didnât work out that way.
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The impact of the recent tsunami on the Maldives has set back development two decades, the government says.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Help finally came from  the sky on Sunday for Indonesian villages in an area washed  flat by the tsunami a week ago, but it grew clearer no amount  of aid could stop more loss of life throughout the disaster  zone.
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Rescuers began reaching India&#39;s remote Andaman and Nicobar islands on Tuesday, two days after passage of a devastating tsunami, to find barely a third of residents on one were still alive.
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PORT BLAIR, India, Jan. 4 -- It was just before sunset on the first day of the new year. The helicopter circled above Campbell Bay Island for hours, searching for tsunami survivors marooned on the southernmost points of the Nicobar Islands.
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The magnitude of the tsunami that remade the coasts of the Asian subcontinent was slowly gauged across the world.