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Diego Garcia Tsunami Damage Update | 50 comments (50 topical)
Re: Diego Garcia Tsunami Damage Update (none / 0) (#13)
by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Jan 02, 2005 at 09:20:56 AM EST
NOAA has a QuickTime animation of the tsunami here. (Be patient.) Diego Garcia is in the bull's-eye center of the screen and you can clearly see the tsunami breaking around the island. (Diego Garcia is too small to be visible until it impedes the flow of the wave.) Something took a huge pounding there. If the U.S. base escaped in good condition, then the reefs surrounding the island must have taken the brunt of it. Another caveat: I could not tell from NOAA's website whether the animation was based just on its computer model of the Indian Ocean or whether satellite or surface data were also used.

Diego Garcia Tsunami Damage Update | 50 comments (50 topical)

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