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Article: Tsunami Territory.(Geoscience Australia)(Brief Article)
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- Australasian Business Intelligence
- Article date:
- March 3, 2005
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Mar 03, 2005 (Northern Territory News - ABIX via COMTEX)
Geoscience Australia has begun a study of tsunami patterns and prospects in northern Australia and impacts on the city of Darwin. Seismologist Spiro Spiliopoulos says the substantial earthquake which hit Darwin on 2 March 2005 was centred 660km north in the Banda Sea, but probably too deep to cause a tsunami. He says the earthquake, which measured 7.1 on the Richter scale, was caused by the Australian and Eurasian continental plates colliding. Spiliopoulos says Darwin is not considered to be vulnerable to a tsunami because of ...