News tagged with december 26 2004 tsunami
4 years after tsunami: Corals stage comeback
Dec 29, 2008 |
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A team of scientists from the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has reported a rapid recovery of coral reefs in areas of Indonesia, following the tsunami that devastated coastal regions throughout ...
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Coral reef was untouched by tsunami
Feb 23, 2006 |
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Scientists say they've discovered a large coral reef off Thailand that was apparently undisturbed by the catastrophic December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
Major Pacific earthquake prompts tsunami warning
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Mar 20, 2009 |
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A major 7.9-magnitude earthquake has shaken the South Pacific nation of Tonga and sending people in low lying areas of Fiji fleeing for higher ground after a tsunami warning, according to officials.
Australian continent to blame for Samoa, Sumatra quakes
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Oct 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The recent earthquakes in the Pacific and Indonesia have one University of Queensland researcher questioning whether the two are related.
Mapping the wake of a pending quake
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Dec 04, 2006 |
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Research into ancient earthquakes by scientists at USC and Caltech shows that within the next few decades another tsunami from another giant earthquake is likely to flood densely populated sections of western coastal Sumatra, ...
Potential for large earthquake off coast of Sumatra remains large
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Dec 03, 2008 |
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The subduction zone that brought us the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and tsunami is ripe for yet another large event, despite a sequence of quakes that occurred in the Mentawai Islands area in 2007, according to a group ...
Colossal quake may hit Sumatra in 30 years: geologist
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Oct 15, 2009 |
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A colossal earthquake may hit Indonesia's Sumatra island within 30 years, triggering a tsunami and making last month's deadly temblor look tiny by comparison, a geologist has warned.
Tsunami evacuation buildings: another way to save lives in the Pacific Northwest
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Oct 19, 2009 |
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Some time soon, a powerful earthquake will trigger a massive tsunami that will flood the Pacific Northwest, destroying homes and threatening the lives of tens of thousands of people, says Yumei Wang, a geotechnical ...
Mathematicians provide new insight into tsunamis
Apr 01, 2009 |
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A new mathematical formula that could be used to give advance warning of where a tsunami is likely to hit and how destructive it will be has been worked out by scientists at Newcastle University.
Community education and evacuation planning saved lives in Sept. 29 Samoan tsunami
Nov 05, 2009 |
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Community-based education and awareness programs minimized the death toll from the recent Samoan tsunami, though there are still ways to improve the warning and evacuation process, according to a team of researchers ...
New Sumatra quake takes seismologists by surprise
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Oct 01, 2009 |
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The huge earthquake that hit Sumatra occurred at a deep, unexpected location, illustrating the dangerously complex geological mosaic in this area, a seismologist told AFP on Thursday.
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