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The eastern Indian ocean earthquake and tsunami : first seafloor survey by Royal Navy's HMS Scott
- Publication Year :
- 2005
- Publisher :
- Geomares Publishing, 2005.
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Abstract
- The earthquake offshore Sumatra, Indonesia and the Nicobar-Andaman Islands, India on 26th December 2004 (Figure 1) was the second largest earthquake ever recorded (in 50-60 years recording history) with a moment magnitude of 9.3. The resulting tsunami wave propagated across the Indian Ocean causing devastation in coastal south-east Asia, Sri Lanka, India and East Africa and the loss of an estimated 300,000 lives. First post-disaster seafloor survey of the area was recently completed.
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.od......1002..6d404f2e0a860b56f4019289bdf24077