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Originally published in Science Express on 25 August 2005
Science 23 September 2005:
Vol. 309. no. 5743, pp. 2045 - 2048
DOI: 10.1126/science.1114576
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The Global Reach of the 26 December 2004 Sumatra Tsunami

Vasily Titov,1* Alexander B. Rabinovich,2,3 Harold O. Mofjeld,1 Richard E. Thomson,2 Frank I. González1

Numerical model simulations, combined with tide-gauge and satellite altimetry data, reveal that wave amplitudes, directionality, and global propagation patterns of the 26 December 2004 Sumatra tsunami were primarily determined by the orientation and intensity of the offshore seismic line source and subsequently by the trapping effect of mid-ocean ridge topographic waveguides.

1 Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, Washington 98115, USA.
2 Institute of Ocean Sciences, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, 9860 West Saanich Road, Sidney, British Columbia, Canada V8L 4B2.
3 P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 36 Nakhimovsky Prospect, Moscow 117997, Russia.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Vasily.Titov{at}noaa.gov

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