Researcher inspects coral boulder (IMAGE)

University of Washington

Researcher inspects coral boulder

Caption

An earthquake between 1381 and 1391 triggered a tsunami in the northeastern Caribbean sea that stranded large coral boulders hundreds of meters inland on Anegada, the northernmost of the British Virgin Islands. A new University of Washington-led study dates the event based on analyses of the coral. Zamara Fuentes, a postdoctoral student at the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez, is pictured.

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Brian Atwater/United States Geological Survey

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