Hi,
Bob W wrote:
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)
Most of the population lives inland, apparently.I am somewhat puzled by the apparent lack of damage to Bangladesh. Has anyone found any information about it?
Still, most of the country is less then 17metres above sea level. If you look carefully at the simulation's third frame, you can see the amplification of the wave as it surges up the narrowing coastline. Very, very lucky people, in that sense.
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.
The islands seem to have been worst hit of all. 8-(
I'm helping the BRC here today.
mike
