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Nature 433, 350-353 (27 January 2005) | doi:10.1038/433350a; Published online 26 January 2005

On the trail of destruction

Quirin Schiermeier

  1. Quirin Schiermeier is Nature's German correspondent.
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Quirin Schiermeier travels to Sri Lanka with a team of scientists in the wake of last month's tsunami. Together with locals they search through the damage for clues of where the wave hit hardest.

It was 8:45 on a tropical December morning when Mohamed Nazfer saw the tsunami coming. He remembers the time exactly because he was eating breakfast, listening to the news on the radio.

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