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...EARTHQUAKE FACTORY The Cascadia Subduction Zone???where the Juan de Fuca Plate meets the North American Plate???is remarkably similar to the subterranean system that triggered the tsunami in the Indian Ocean and is capable of generating equally powerful earthquakes and equally destructive waves Some key differences: a tsunami???warning system, better housing construction and a more rugged and less populous coastline. The death toll from a tsunami in the Pacific Northwest might be in the hundreds but not in the tens of thousands...
Warning system The workhorses of the Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis are a series of buoys tethered to the ocean floor and linked to the outside world by satellite. The Pacific is tsunami ready, but not the Atlantic or Indian oceans...
...tsunami reached across the Indian Ocean to Somalia and destroyed coastlines across Southeast Asia, including Phuket. Chen and her family stopped at an island to eat, not knowing that the tsunami had just hit, and could not dock...
Mridula S. Raman ’06, co-president of the South Asian Association, was still waiting to hear from relatives from Tamil Nadu until Dec. 31, the Indian state hit hardest by the tsunami. In India, over 8,000 have been reported missing...
Naresh Ramarajan ’04, also from Tamil Nadul, is currently traveling around Indonesia as a Rockefeller fellow. “My best friend’s parents literally ran from the waves in [the Indian coastal town of] Cuddalore and bought their way into the first bus out of town for an enormous sum,” Ramarajan wrote in an e-mail from Indonesia. He added that his family and friends were all safe...