The report published on Tuesday - part-funded by the UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) - looked more at changes in the average weight and height of passengers in the past few decades than the highly-publicised fears over so-called "traveller's thrombosis".

BBC: Civil Aviation Authority report

They figured it was highly unlikely that a quake could be of greater magnitude or a wave of greater height.

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