Tide of Grief. Evan Thomas and George Wehrfritz.
by Thomas, Evan; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 2Science. Publisher: Newsweek, 2005ISSN: 1522-3264;.Subject(s): Disaster relief -- Indonesia | Tsunami Disaster -- South Asia (2004) | Tsunami Warning System | Tsunamis -- ForecastingDDC classification: 050 Summary: "If, on the Sunday morning after Christmas [2004], you had been like some all-seeing, all-knowing deity, able to peer down through the ocean depths off the western coast of the island of Sumatra, here is what you would have seen: Two giant tectonic plates, which have been pushing against each other for millennia, suddenly shift. The left plate has been sliding under the right at the rate of a few centimeters a year, but now the top plate suddenly springs up, lifting perhaps 60 feet along a 1,000-mile ridge. Above, ocean surface hardly ripples. In planetary terms, the movement is 'utterly insignificant,' says geologist Simon Winchester, author of 'Krakatoa,' a recent best seller about a volcano that exploded off Sumatra in 1883, killing 40,000 people. 'The earth shrugged for a moment. Everything moved a little bit.'" (NEWSWEEK) This article describes the causes of the tsunami in Indonesia and discusses the aftermath.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Tide of Grief, Jan. 10, 2005; pp. 22-36.
"If, on the Sunday morning after Christmas [2004], you had been like some all-seeing, all-knowing deity, able to peer down through the ocean depths off the western coast of the island of Sumatra, here is what you would have seen: Two giant tectonic plates, which have been pushing against each other for millennia, suddenly shift. The left plate has been sliding under the right at the rate of a few centimeters a year, but now the top plate suddenly springs up, lifting perhaps 60 feet along a 1,000-mile ridge. Above, ocean surface hardly ripples. In planetary terms, the movement is 'utterly insignificant,' says geologist Simon Winchester, author of 'Krakatoa,' a recent best seller about a volcano that exploded off Sumatra in 1883, killing 40,000 people. 'The earth shrugged for a moment. Everything moved a little bit.'" (NEWSWEEK) This article describes the causes of the tsunami in Indonesia and discusses the aftermath.
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