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COPYRIGHT 2005 Natural History Magazine, Inc.
According to the most reliable recent estimates, the monstrous earthquake that rocked the northwest coast of Sumatra and the nearby Andaman and Nicobar island groups on December 26, 2004, released the energy-equivalent of a 250-megaton bomb, shaking every point on Earth's surface half an inch or more. It also launched a tsunami at more than a million coastal dwellers, killed nearly 300,000, and wrecked many...
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