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Special issue of BSSA focuses on 2004 Sumatra earthquake

The 2004 earthquake is the focus of the January special issue of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA), in which scientists present research and analyses about the current state of earthquakes and tsunamis, as learned from the Sumatra-Andaman event.

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