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The fate of coral reefs in the Andaman Sea, eastern Indian Ocean following the Sumatran earthquake and tsunami, 26 December 2004.
The Sumatran-Andaman earthquake was the second largest earthquake in the instrumental record, with shifts in the sea floor displacing more than 30 [km.sup.3] of seawater and generating a tsunami that was recorded worldwide (Bilham 2005). The scale of the resultant human tragedy and damage to coastal infrastructure was almost incomprehensible and is it was not surprising that many scientists anticipated extensive damage to coral reefs along affected coastlines in the Andaman Sea. It is perhaps noteworthy that since 1833 over 35 tsunamis have been recorded around the neigh-bouring Indonesian archipelago (Carey et al. 2001), which is home to the most diverse coral reefs in ...
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