Nine years after the giant earthquake and tsunami in Sumatra devastated the region and killed more than 200,000 people, researchers have developed a new way of predicting these deadly events. Their new global map of subduction zones - which mark places where two oceanic plates collide - reveal which ones are more likely to generate mega earthquakes and which ones are not. Read more: bit.ly/1hFiRLs Want more science news? Follow us on Twitter! twitter/sciencealert
Posted on: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 10:00:00 +0000
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