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Tragic backstory behind one of 'most chilling images of all time' that saw more than 220,000 lives lost
One of the 'most chilling images of all time' captures a snapshot of the Indian Ocean Tsunami, a catastrophe in which over ...
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The Deadliest Train Wreck in History – Tsunami vs. The Queen of the Sea
Over 1,700 people board the Queen of the Sea express train in Sri Lanka, unaware that a wall of water is heading straight for them. This is the haunting story of the world’s deadliest rail ...
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A Major Cascadia Zone Earthquake Could Cause Much of Coastal Humboldt to Rapidly Drop Into the Sea, New Study Finds
The study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), found that a major earthquake ...
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How an Earthquake Can Trigger a Tsunami That Alters the Weather
Understanding how a tsunami works is akin to playing a giant ... the gentle swells you see at the beach; they are massive walls of water that can reach towering heights. As they approach land ...
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Lessons for Japan in 2004 Tsunami
a result in part of the 2004 tsunami, still did not give many Japanese enough time to flee the rising wall of water. But some of the most important lessons from 2004 could be useful to Japan ...
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Water Every Where, But Not A Drop To Drink
Most residents of Newtown are not aware of the pending shortage of water facing the future of Newtown. On August 18th Newtown experienced a Thousand Year storm of over 13 inches of ...
Ocean's silent danger: Tsunami waves can travel up to 500 mph
Tsunamis form from sudden water movements, mainly undersea earthquakes, spreading waves across oceans and increasing as they ...
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Tectonic hazards - earthquakes and tsunamis
The tsunami now goes through a terrifying transformation ... Now, it catches up, compressing the wave into a vertical wall of water up to 115 feet high. It hits Banda Aceh with the force of ...