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their homes near the shore and have rebuilt their town at the island’s
highest point, the hill where Sieh erected his GPS station. Their
modified town is better prepared for tsunamis.
22 The quakes also provided Sieh with a lot of work to do. On Sumatra,
the rising continental plate pushed up vast stretches of beach that had
been underwater. “We saw thousands of dead corals,” Sieh said. He
looked at data from the GPS stations to find out exactly how the nearby
islands moved during the quakes.
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Destruction after the 2004 earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia
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