The tsunami hit hard many of the economies of the Indian Ocean area.

海啸使印度洋地区许多经济体遭受重创。

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Shandong province is a big ocean province, which ocean area approaches its territory area.

山东省是一个海洋大省，其海洋面积接近省内国土面积。

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The great shallow focus earthquakes were centred in Indonesia and the South Indian Ocean area.

浅源大地震发生的区域集中于印度尼西亚和南印度洋地区。

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But the Pacific Ocean area has experienced more of the deadly waves.

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"And,with that,we operated in 14 affected countries throughout the Indian Ocean area, built 51,000 permanent houses, in Indonesia,"

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All this wet air is pulled in by a high pressure area over the Indian Ocean and a low pressure area to the south.

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While reefs are just a sliver of that space (two-tenths of one percent of the ocean area), they are home to a quarter of all marine species.

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"The Indian Ocean area is pretty well covered, " says Kumar.

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Which is a shame, because the U.S. has the largest federal water zone in the world, with more ocean area suitable for deep-water fish farming than the country has arable land area.

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