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Article: ASIA EARTHQUAKE DISASTER: Death rolls in on tidal waves that travel at 500km an hour.(News)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- December 27, 2004
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THE EARTHQUAKE behind the tidal wave which swamped parts of Asia was caused by one of the plates which make up the world's surface moving a matter of metres, experts said last night.
Dr Roger Musson, a seismologist with the British Geological Survey in Edinburgh, said the fault line running under the Indian Ocean was 1, 200km long, 500km wide, was in three sections, and that it had moved just 15 metres.
He explained: ``It happened because of the fact that the whole of the Indian-Australian plate is moving northwards.
``This will happen again and has been happening for several million years in the past. ''
He said the fault under the ...