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  Earthquake 'Pulses' Could Predict Tsunami Impact

  December 5, 2005 — The magnitude 9.2 earthquake that triggered a devastating tsunami in the Indian Ocean in December of 2004 originated just off the coast of northern Sumatra, but an "energy pulse" -- an area where ... > full story
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  Mangroves Shielded Communities Against Tsunami

  October 28, 2005 — A new study released today in the journal Science shows that areas buffered by coastal forests, like mangroves, were strikingly less damaged by the 2004 tsunami than areas without tree ... > full story
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  The Sound Of A Distant Rumble: Researchers Track Underwater Noise Generated By December 26 Earthquake

  July 22, 2005 — Underwater sound picked up by the network that monitors the globe for nuclear test explosions, enabled researchers to analyze the rupture as it progressed along the Sumatra Fault on December 26. The ... > full story
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  Native Lore Tells The Tale: There's Been A Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On

  July 12, 2005 — Stories of two-headed serpents and epic battles between Thunderbird and Whale, common among Northwest native peoples, have their root in the region's seismic history. New research led by a University ... > full story
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  MIT Team Designs Tsunami-Resistant Houses

  June 8, 2005 — Using high-tech engineering principles, an MIT/Harvard team has developed a low-tech solution to the problem of how to build homes in tsunami-prone areas. The team recently produced an architectural ... > full story
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  Deep-Sea Tremors May Provide Early Warning System For Larger Earthquakes

  May 28, 2005 — Predicting when large earthquakes might occur may be a step closer to reality, thanks to a new study of undersea earthquakes in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The study, reported in today's Nature, is ... > full story
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  Analysis Of The Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake Reveals Longest Fault Rupture Ever

  May 27, 2005 — Three papers published in the May 20 issue of the journal Science by an international group of seismologists provide a comprehensive scientific analysis of the December 2004 and March 2005 ... > full story
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  New Method For Imaging Dec. 26 Indian Ocean Earthquake Yields Unprecedented Results

  May 26, 2005 — Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD and their colleagues at UCLA have developed a new method for imaging how the earth ruptured during the massive Dec. 26 Indian Ocean ... > full story
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  Student Plumbs Disaster Relief Logistics

  May 12, 2005 — The devastation caused by last December's tsunami prompted an unprecedented outpouring of global aid that presented disaster relief providers with innumerable logistical challenges. Now an MIT ... > full story
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  South Asia Disaster Shows Tsunamis Are An Ongoing Threat To Humans

  May 2, 2005 — The tsunami that devastated south Asia coastlines and killed more than 200,000 people last December is a powerful reminder of just how dangerous those waves can be to humans, and scientists should ... > full story

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