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Displaced plates could trigger tsunami [1]

The Geological Survey and Mines Bureau yesterday said the displacement of plates which had resulted in the recent earthquakes in Indonesia had created a possibility of tsunamis.

Geological Survey and Mines Bureau Deputy Director Geology S. M. A. T. B. Mudunkotuwa told the Daily Mirror that the movement of displaced plates could trigger a tsunami.

Publication Date: 
05/10/2009
Yohan Perera [2]
Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka) [3]
Tags:
Natural Disasters [4], Cyclones [5], Earthquakes [6], Tsunami [7], Indonesia [8], Sri Lanka [9]
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