Boxing Day Tsunami
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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.
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On late Christmas night 2004 I was reading the end of Michael Crichton's thriller "State of Fear" which had, as part of its final climax, the generation of a huge tsunami (by eco-terrorists). The time I was reading this part must have been within minutes of the generation of tragic Indian Ocean tsunami which took place around 0100 UTC 2004.
Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:32:53 +0000Coincidence ID:3935
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