The scale of the 2004 tsunami that devastated shores around the Indian Ocean has no precedent in written histories of the region. But evidence of similar events has been unearthed from the geological record.
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Bondevik, S. The sands of tsunami time. Nature 455, 1183–1184 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/4551183a
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