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Contact: Nancy Light
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Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International
Caption: Japan's contribution to IODP, the CHIKYU, will be joined by a U.S.-sponsored drilling vessel (currently undergoing rehabilitation and as yet unnamed) off the coast of Japan in Sept. 2007, when international teams of IODP scientists will investigate how and why earthquakes and tsunamis occur.
Credit: IODP/Center for Deep Earth Exploration (CDEX), Japan
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