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Nature 455, 1183-1184 (30 October 2008) | doi:10.1038/4551183a; Published online 29 October 2008
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Earth science: The sands of tsunami time
Stein Bondevik1
Abstract
The scale of the 2004 tsunami that devastated shores around the Indian Ocean has no precedent in written histories of the region. But evidence of similar events has been unearthed from the geological record.
The huge earthquake and ensuing tsunami in the Indian Ocean on 26 December 2004 killed more than 220,000 people in 11 countries. Hundreds of years of accumulated stress in the Sunda Trench was released within a few minutes and drove the Indo-Australian tectonic plate an average of 13 metres beneath the Burma–Sunda plate1.
- Stein Bondevik is in the Department of Geology, University of Tromsø, Norway, and the Faculty of Engineering and Science, Sogn og Fjordane University College, NO-6851 Sogndal, Norway.
Email: stein.bondevik@hisf.no
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