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Posted by: Admin on Monday, September 01, 2003 - 10:32 PM GMT

According to a September, 2001 press release from the Benfield Hazard Research Centre of the University College London:
The new research, a collaboration between Dr. Simon Day of the Benfield Greig Hazard Research Centre at UCL and Dr. Steven Ward of the University of California, reveals the extent and size of the mega-tsunami, the consequence of a giant landslide that may be triggered by a future eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano."

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