Dead Zone around Tsunami Epicenter

On the first scientific expedition to the epicenter of the December 2004 tsunami, deadliest in recorded history, Census of Marine Life (CoML) biologists found little or no effect on deep-sea fauna except at one site off Sumatra roughly 4000 m (2.5 miles) deep, where five months after the disaster there was no evidence of large animals during an 11 hour dive. The absence of biological life at the site was unprecedented in 25 years of deep-sea sampling.

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Keywords: TSUNAMI, DEEP SEA ECOSYSTEM, SUMATRA, MARINE LIFE, LONG TERM RESEARCH

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Related Topics: Tsunamis

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