Hi, > Here's the link: > http://www.aftenposten.no/spesial/bildeserier/article937860.ece > (click on "Neste" in the frame on the right for the next picture)
> The simulation also shows what looks like a focusing directly at > Sri Lanka and south India, maybe because of interference fenomena > with waves generateed from different positions along the fault, > reflected from Sumatra or refracted by underwater mountains. > (Differences in ocean depth will affect wave velocity and thus > provide refraction) that's an interesting link. Some stills from the same source were published today in the 'Independent' and helped explain to me why Sri Lanka, Madras and Somalia were damaged, whereas there was much less damage in places like Zanzibar and Orissa. I have been to some of these places; many of the people living on the coasts - fishermen, stall-holders on the beaches at Madras and so on, live such marginal lives at the best of times that it's hard to see how the survivors will recover. >> >> I am somewhat puzled by the apparent lack of damage to Bangladesh. Has >> anyone found any information about it? >> Most of the population lives inland, apparently. I wonder what the effect has been on the tribal people of the Andaman Islands. They are thought to be relict populations of the original modern Human expansion out of Africa, 75,000 years ago. It's possible that they have all been killed. One of my colleagues is on holiday in Thailand. Nobody at work has heard from him, or had replies to emails. Fingers crossed. -- Bob
