Almost six months ago, the killer waves had destroyed everything in her small fishing community in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu, which had borne the brunt of the disaster in the country.

她所在的小渔村位于印度南部的塔米尔-那都省，大约在六个月之前，致命的巨浪横扫了这里的一切。塔米尔-那都省是印度受灾最为严重的地区。

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Though the building is 50 miles from the Pacific Ocean and well beyond the reach of killer tidal waves, a blue and white metal sign at its entrance says "Entering Tsunami Hazard Zone."

尽管这座建筑距离太平洋有50英里，远在杀手般的浪潮鞭长莫及的地方，入口处却立着一块蓝白色金属牌，上面写着“进入海啸危险区域。”

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He is a child of the tsunami -- carried on the killer waves that spared him and his mother but took so many others.

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According to Teruyuki Kato, the project's leader, this arrangement can measure a buoy's vertical motion with an accuracy of a few centimetres, which will pick up dangerous tsunamis in the open ocean where they are mere ripples on the surface (they rear up into killer waves only when they reach the shallows).

ECONOMIST: New ways of tracking these killer waves may help save lives

' Watching all those cars headed so purposely in one direction that was straight out of one of those thrillers about earthquakes or tidal waves or killer hurricanes.

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