Reading Room: The Tsunami
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A collection of sites with first-person accounts and photos
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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.
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MEUNASAH BAK'U, Indonesia  - Teungku Sobirin lost his seven children and 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.
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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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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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Rarely has such a far-off tragedy seemed so close to home. News of Asia's devastating tsunami reached the living rooms of most Americans in a matter of just hours, through dramatic video taken by tourists, Internet postings and cell phones. The catastrophe has tugged at heartstrings in a way few international disasters have.
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Water supplies on some Indian Ocean islands may have been ruined for years or decades by salt water from the tsunami.
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Nell'isola di Sumatra la piu' colpita dallo tsunami
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Aerial images of tsunami-battered coastlines suggest the world map may be changed forever, with chunks of land sinking into the sea. But did the quake and the killer wave it spawned really significantly reshape the Indian Ocean's outline? Scientists say probably not.
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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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People who survived the Asian tsunami face yet another risk - a potentially fatal fungal infection.
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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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Survivors from the gargantuan tsunami that swept across Asia will face a host of new threats in the coming days and weeks: viruses and bacteria in the water, diseases seeping from human remains, and the vulnerability to bugs and other predators that comes from having no shelter.
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The BBC's Roland Buerk describes escaping from the tsunami that smashed into Sri Lanka's south coast.
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Witness accounts from people who saw the huge waves triggered by an earthquake off the Indonesian coast.
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For vivid reporting from the enormous zone of tsunami disaster, it was hard to beat the blogs.
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A tsunami striking the U.S. is not a question of if but when