Sunday&#39;s Massive Earthquake in Asia a Geological Rarity
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Geologists describe Sunday&#39;s powerful earthquake in the Indian Ocean as a once-in-a-generation event. The US Geological Survey says the 8.9 magnitude earthquake that triggered the devastating
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Asia News, WASHINGTON - The earthquake that shook southern Asia on Sunday was one of the most powerful since the start of the 20th century, the US Geological Survey said.
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One of the world&#39;s most powerful earthquakes in years rocked northern Indonesia on Sunday and launched tidal waves that slammed shorelines across Asia, killing some 300 in Sri Lanka and almost 100 in Indonesia, officials said.
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A massive earthquake under the sea has sent huge waves crashing into countries in south and east Asia. Thousands of people are feared dead following the quake, which hit 8.9 on the Richter scale - making it the strongest in the world for 40 years.
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An earthquake hit southern Asia Sunday, killing more than 10,000 people in massive tidal waves, the BBC reported.
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At 6:58 am on Sunday (7:58 pm Saturday, our time) an earthquake occurred in the Indian Ocean, in water about 18 miles deep just 155 miles off the west coast of Sumatra.
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Scientists describe Sunday's devastating earthquake off the island of Sumatra as a "megathrust" &#151; a grade reserved for the most powerful shifts in the Earth's crust. The term doesn't entirely capture the awesome power of the fourth largest earthquake since 1900, or the tsunami catastrophes it spawned for coastal areas around the Indian Ocean.
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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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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 more than 7,800 people.
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Yesterday's  massive tsunamis were  triggered when a plate of earth that was dug like a bulldozer blade into the ocean floor off the coast of western Indonesia broke through layers of rocky resistance and created a rupture hundreds of miles in length, geologists said.
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Japanese researchers have discovered a new and sluggish kind of seismic activity that helps reveal the inner workings of faults capable of producing massive earthquakes like the one that generated the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
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More than 10,000 people die across Asia in massive waves triggered by the largest earthquake in 40 years.
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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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Legions of rescuers spread across Asia Monday after an earthquake of epic power struck deep beneath the Indian Ocean, unleashing 20-foot tidal waves that ravaged coasts across thousands of miles and killed at ...
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Sediment folding may have added to the exceptionally large tsunami that struck Sumatra on Dec. 26, 2004, according to an international team of geologists.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia  - A powerful earthquake rocked large parts of Southeast Asia on Sunday. The quake caused dozens of small buildings to collapse and triggered tidal waves in northwestern Indonesia, witnesses and officials said.
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Powerful earthquakes in Indonesia recall the 2004 tsunami and prompt concerns over whether we're ready for another disaster