Tsunamiprediction

An enormous earthquake shook the bottom of the Indian Ocean on Sunday, December 26, 2004. The tectonic tremors of 9.2 on the Richter scale reached the land of Aceh. In less than an hour, sea waves as high as 30 meters rolled in from of the sea. After engulfing Aceh's shores, the waves devastated half of the province and claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.

"A quake and tsunami of the Aceh [2004] magnitude can potentially recur in the Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra," said Nugroho Dwi Hananto, a geo-technology researcher from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) to Tempo in his office on Friday two weeks ago.

July 14, 2015

An enormous earthquake shook the bottom of the Indian Ocean on Sunday, December 26, 2004. The tectonic tremors of 9.2 on the Richter scale reached the land of Aceh. In less than an hour, sea waves as high as 30 meters rolled in from of the sea. After engulfing Aceh's shores, the waves devastated half of the province and claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.

"A quake and tsunami of the Aceh [2004] magnitude can potentially recur in the Mentawai Isl

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