I think it was humbling for everyone that analyzed the earthquake. |
There will be more earthquakes of this type, and with more humans exposed to the hazard there will be more devastating losses of life. What we hope to do is develop technologies that can minimize that loss. |
Two hours after the earthquake has occurred, the wave is spreading out from the Bay of Bengal, |
We'd never seen signals from an earthquake of this size, and the availability of this instrumentation was a real breakthrough in being able to see the complete rupture process of one of these truly monstrous events. |