Geologists in the United States have warned that deadly tsunamis threaten the Caribbean and are an overlooked hazard in the region.
Scientists attending the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) here noted that the Caribbean's beautiful tropical islands and coral reefs are strung along the junction of several major and minor tectonic plates.
They said many of the islands sit above a subduction zone, where two plates meet and one “slides protestingly under the other,
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