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Published online 5 September 2007 |
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| doi:10.1038/news070903-10
Corrected online: 10 September 2007
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New tsunami warning
60 million people in the Bay of Bengal may be at risk.
The densely-populated Bay of Bengal looks to be at risk from very large tsunami-producing earthquakes, according to a new analysis of modern and historical observations.
Phil Cummins, a seismologist at the national Geoscience Australia agency in Canberra, who publishes the analysis today in Nature1, is quick to say that his ideas need confirmation before "policymakers start doing anything".
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