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Wednesday, January 05, 2005

The Indian ocean tsunami explained

Downloadable illustrations, animations, presentation:
The International Center for GeoHazards

Saturday, January 01, 2005

Tsunami / Indian ocean: Animation + pictures of the wave & train accident

Pictures of the tsunami arriving at the coast:
http://www.aftenposten.no/spesial/bildeserier/article938632.ece






Animation of the tsunami:
http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/utenriks/4390089.html


The tsunami caused the worst train accident in history:
1.500 people on an express train in Sri Lanka was hit, rolled over 4 times, 800+ killed in the train.
Pictures:
http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/article938558.ece