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A team of scientists led by Yoshinobu Tsuji of the University of Tokyo has found that the largest waves in last December’s tsunami were much higher than previously thought.
The results are also likely to lead to the upgrading of the predicted size of tsunamis in the Pacific Ocean generated by earthquakes in the Cascadia Subduction Zone — a zone off the west coast of North America bearing many similarities to that off the coast of Sumatra.
Link to full Seattle Post-Intelligencer news storyRead more about tsunamis in SciDev.Net’s Tsunami update