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SUMMARY:Living with tsunamis: Sumatra and the Mediterranean - James Jackso
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CONTACT:Daniel Guetta
DESCRIPTION:The 2004 Sumatra earthquake was the second largest anywhere in
  the last 100 years\, producing a tsunami that travelled round the whole w
 orld and drowned over 200\,000 people. It has since been followed by two o
 ther large earthquakes in Sumatra\, both among the 20 biggest of the large
  century. The ground movements in these earthquakes dramatically change th
 e landscape and environment of those who live on the coastline\, and are p
 art of a sequence of changes that occur on a human time-scale before\, dur
 ing and after the earthquakes\, as part of the natural earthquake cycle. I
 f we understand what causes these changes\, and can read the signals in th
 e landscape that tell us\nwhat part of the cycle we are currently in\, we 
 can recognize which areas are loaded and ready to fail in imminent future 
 earthquakes. The Sumatra earthquake sequence has greatly helped us underst
 and these processes and this knowledge\, together with education of the lo
 cal populations\, is the best way to prevent a recurrence of the 2004 disa
 ster. This knowledge has\nalso helped us in forensic investigations of pas
 t tsunami-generating earthquakes that are well known historic catastrophes
 \, but whose causes and\nsources are only now being revealed. These includ
 e some famous disasters in the ancient Mediterranean world.
LOCATION:Pharmacology Lecture Theatre\, Tennis Court Road
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