Study Of 2004 Tsunami Disaster Forces Rethinking Of Theory Of Massive Earthquakes
March 2, 2006 @ 02:48 PM (EST)
The Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of December 26, 2004, was one of the worst natural disasters in recent memory, mostly due to the devastating tsunami that followed it. A group of geologists, geodesists and geophysicists, including scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, has delineated the full dimensions of the fault rupture that caused the earthquake...
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