First Photo of Tsunami-Causing Rift Taken

[Dover]

First Photo of Tsunami-Causing Rift Taken
By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News



June 2, 2005— The actual ruptured ground that helped launch the deadliest tsunami in history may have been found and photographed deep under the sea near Sumatra.

Using a remotely operated deep-sea submersible vehicle at the abyssal depth of more than 14,700 feet, researchers were able to locate what looks like a freshly created cliff of soft clay measuring 10 feet high and more than 26 feet wide, just a small part of the upwardly thrust ground that created the tsunami.

That fact that the clay cliff is not slumped and eroded or covered with seafloor life are strong indications that it was created recently by a sudden shift in the seafloor, explained lead scientist Kate Moran of Rhode Island University. ..cont'd

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050530/tsunamicliff_zoom1.html

[Elidor]

1. When you consider the amount of water that little cliff had to displace

That is HUGE.