High Risk of Tsunamis Seen in North Caribbean
Geologists from Texas and North Carolina have found there is a high risk of devastating tsunamis in the northern Caribbean and that as many as 35 million people could be affected.
The team reports next week in the journal Eos that 10 tsunamis have occurred in the region since 1492 -- six of them with loss of life.
The waves were triggered by earthquakes along the boundary between the North American and Caribbean tectonic plates, which lies along the north coast of Haiti and the Dominican Republic and extends 2,000 miles from Central America to the Lesser Antilles.
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