Word: tsunamis
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Though it represents almost 10 percent of the student body, Harvards omnibus international student organization seems to have all but vanished from the scene. Suffering from organizational paralysis, Woodbridge was patently absent from the Southeast Asian tsunami relief effortthe most significant international event in recent months. While other organizations sang and danced their way to dollars, Woodbridgean international organization with a natural role to play in alleviating the damages of an international disasterdid absolutely nothing...
...alarming lack of thorough media coverage. The death toll of the 8.7 magnitude earthquake, which hit 125 miles off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, is estimated at over 1,000, minimal in comparison to the 270,000 casualties of this past December’s tsunami. While the earthquake did not cause the widespread devastation seen in the previous earthquake and subsequent tsunami, the island of Nias was ravaged...
...didn't last week's earthquake cause a massive tsunami? A: The earthquake ruptured some 30 km below the ocean floor, significantly deeper than the Dec. 26 quake, which was only 10 km deep and in shallower waters. All that earth muffled the force of last week's quake and kept the seafloor from rising suddenly, which could have triggered a major tsunami. "There just wasn't a big enough bulge in the water to create a big set of waves," says Kerry Sieh, a seismologist at the California Institute of Technology. Some minor tsunami waves were generated, according...
...this quake an aftershock of the one that caused the Dec. 26 tsunami? A: Technically, it could be classified as an aftershock because it occurred three months later and its epicenter was just 190 km away from that of the first quake. But while the Dec. 26 earthquake ruptured the earth in a line that extended more than 1,100 km to the north of its epicenter, the force of the March 28 temblor broke in the opposite direction, rupturing a 400 km stretch of seafloor to the southeast. Because its energy spread in a new direction and because...
...Australian navy supply ship H.M.A.S. Kanimbla was in Singapore on March 29, preparing to head home after three months helping in the reconstruction of Indonesia's earthquake- and tsunami-ravaged Aceh province. That night, a second earthquake struck Nias, Banyak and Simeulue islands, off the coast of Sumatra. Within hours, the Kanimbla - equipped for the rapid transport of soldiers, medics and heavy machinery - was heading back to the area. Medical teams raced for its Sea King helicopters, which began scouring Nias for badly injured survivors and ferrying them to the ship's hospital for treatment. On the afternoon...