INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI: In Wake of Disaster, Scientists Seek Out Clues to Prevention
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Indian Ocean tsunami. In wake of disaster, scientists seek out clues to prevention.
Th is We e k Having claimed more than 150,000 lives and destroyed billions of dollars' worth of property, nature last week reminded the world of the terrible cost of ignorance. Now the nations devastated by the massive earthquake and tsunami that ravaged the Bay of Bengal the morning after Christmas Day are hoping to marshal the political and scientific will to reduce the toll from the next nat...
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عنوان ژورنال: Science
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0036-8075,1095-9203
DOI: 10.1126/science.307.5706.22