In Past Tsunamis, Tantalizing Clues to Future Ones
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Undersea quakes are inevitable. The questions are where and when Â and the recent catastrophe may provide clues.
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The first of a planned network of tsunami early warning buoys is being installed in the Indian Ocean.
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Q. What is a tsunami? A. A tsunami is a series of ocean waves that are generated by a large-scale disturbance of seawater. Most tsunamis are generated from earthquakes, but they can also occur after volcanic eruptions, landslides, and meteor impacts. The most destructive tsunamis are created by large earthquakes with an epicenter or fault line near or on the ...
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Details are emerging daily about Britons killed, or missing presumed dead, as a result of the Indian Ocean tsunami.
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HAFUN, Somalia -- In this remote, northeastern corner of Somalia, villagers have long believed the world will end when the sea runs dry and the ground shakes. When the tsunami struck Dec. 26, many thought that day had come.
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Nations turn their attention to installing tsunami early warning systems, but do they really work?
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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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A computer model that can predict the impact of a tsunami from the San Francisco Bay area to Alaska is helping scientists plot danger zones in coastal cities to guide emergency planning.
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If the scope of the tsunami disaster last week was undeniably global, the design world registered its impact in surprisingly intimate ways.
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In the wake of the tsunami, there was abundant amateur video of the disaster coming from tourist hotspots, like Phuket, Thailand. But some of the villages and islands in the path of the devastating
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The magnitude of the tsunami that remade the coasts of the Asian subcontinent was slowly gauged across the world.
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Signs grew on Thursday that towns and villages on the battered shores of the Indian Ocean were beginning to recover from the tsunami which all but swept them off the map.
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Scientists recently returned from a deep-ocean expedition say they are a step closer to understanding how life thrives around cracks spewing scalding water at the bottom of the ocean.
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The tsunami that killed thousands around the Indian Ocean was caught by a series of radar satellites, allowing National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists to develop measurements of the wave in mid-ocean.
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For scientists at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, the world's most powerful earthquake happened below the wrong ocean.
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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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The United States is moving on several fronts toward a global tsunami warning system following the Asian catastrophe.