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WASHINGTON (AP) - Studies of both history and geology indicate that the northern Caribbean faces a high threat of devastating tsunami damage.
Rapidly rising populations along the east and Gulf coasts of the United States and Caribbean islands place more than 35 million people at risk, according to a study being published in the March 22 issue of Eos, the newspaper of the American Geophysical Union.
The report comes in the wake of a Dec. 26 tsunami, generated by an earthquake near Indonesia, that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives around the Indian Ocean.
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