Shocked scientists find tsunami legacy: a dead sea

Shocked scientists find tsunami legacy: a dead sea :

"'Normally, when you go to the bottom of the sea anywhere and take a sample or look around, there's always something alive,' Professor O'Dor said. 'But five months after the earthquake, this entire plain, created by the collapse of the cliff, was essentially devoid of life.'"

Neither wild life nor nature is stupid. If there is still no life around the epicentre of the quake there will be a good natural explanation for it. The scientists are probably right that we just simply haven't been able to investigate areas like this before. Now that we can, we can usually come up with effective reasons and explanations. There will be a good reason for sea creatures avoiding the area. There are an astounding 1700 scientists from 73 countries studying this. I am so grateful. I believe we have 108 countries in the world, so a good two thirds of the countries are actively participating in this research which means we have a really good chance of being able to explain this to ourselves and maybe even coming up with some useful plan or set of guidelines for us as planet earth inhabitants. I am heartwarmed and I daresay the non participating countries probably do not have the funds to allow their scientists to participate. They may not even have scientists. Fantastic team effort.