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Measuring tsunami elevations in Sumatra in 2005

By Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
A man stands next to a tree whose trunk is snapped off, he is holding a stadia rod with metric measurements.
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As part of an international tsunami survey team, Andy Moore of Kent State University takes measurement of a snapped-off tree trunk in Leupueng, Aceh in 2005, shortly after the deadly tsunami struck the island of Sumatra.

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