Wednesday, September 5, 2007

New Tsunami Warning

An undersea fault line near the crowded river deltas of the northern Bay of Bengal is capable of unleashing a potent tsunami, although there is no indication that such a threat is imminent, a scientist reported in the journal Nature. The fault had not previously been deemed an earthquake threat. The study was done by Phil R. Cummins, an Australian government geologist who identified the risk of a great Indian Ocean tsunami many months before the Dec. 26, 2004, earthquake near Sumatra set off deadly waves. From geological records and new satellite measurements of changes in elevations, Dr. Cummins said he found evidence that the northern fault was similarly unstable.

As in the days of Noah....

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