Seabed slide blamed for deadly tsunami 
A submarine
landslide or slump may have caused the tsunami that killed 2,200 people
in Papua New Guinea last year.
References:
Tappin, D.R.
1999. Sediment slump likely caused 1998 Papua new Guinea Tsunami. EOS
80(July 27):333.
Further Readings:
Monastersky, R.
1998. Waves of death. Science News 154(Oct. 3):221.
______. 1998. How a middling quake made a giant
tsunami. Science News 154(Aug. 1):69.
Sources:
David R. Tappin
British Geological Survey
Kingsley Dunham Centre
Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG
United Kingdom
Philip Watts
Applied Fluids Engineering
Private Mail Box #237
5710 East 7th Street
Long Beach, CA 90803
From Science
News, Vol. 156, No. 7, August 14, 1999, p. 100. Copyright © 1999,
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