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Tsunami: Anatomy of a disaster
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At two minutes to eight in the morning on Boxing Day 2004, a magnitude 9.3 earthquake ripped apart the seafloor off the coast of northwest Sumatra.
Over 100 years of accumulated stress was released in the second biggest earthquake in recorded history.
It unleashed a devastating tsunami that travelled thousands of kilometres across the Indian Ocean, taking the lives of nearly 300,000 people in countries as far apart as Indonesia, the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Somalia.
A new BBC One programme, featuring the harrowing stories of survivors, gives a scientific account of the disaster.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4381395.stm
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