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Published online 29 December 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news041229-2

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Devastating quake redraws map

Seismic 'megathrust' leaves islands displaced.

Michael Hopkin

In the aftermath of the waves that devastated coastlines around the Indian Ocean, claiming more than 70,000 lives, experts are piecing together the details of the seismic slip that sparked the fatal tsunami. The quake, the world's biggest for more than 40 years and the fourth largest since 1900, has literally redrawn the map, moving some islands by several metres.

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