The images of Boxing Day 2004 are ones that many people will never forget; the political, economic and energy effects of what happened in Japan on 11 March 2011 are still being felt. Tsunamis, the huge waves set out across oceans by subsea earthquakes and tectonic slides, are big: big events, big news, big implications. But not completely understood. Greater understanding is now likely to come from an unlikely venue: a research site in the comfy Oxfordshire town of Wallingford, a long way from a shoreline, where a €1 million European-funded project will see the creation of what is hoped will be the most realistic system in the world for physically modelling tsunamis.
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