Andaman tsunami threat.

(From The Nation (Thailand))

Byline: The Nation.

Scientists have made urgent inspections of the Andaman Sea floor amid fears it might collapse and cause a tsunami worse than December 2004.

Dr Anond Snidwongs, a scientist with the Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research, said yesterday that Thai and German researchers had been studying the stability of the seabed and the possibility of a landslide under the Andaman Sea around the edge of the continental shelf.

The research stems from the tsunami 19 months ago. After the disaster, English and German researchers inspected the continental shelf at the …