Tsunami fears revived
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Vancouver Island, British Columbia
The entire populations of 14 Indian villages on Vancouver Island, fearing a tsunami, have asked the Canadian government to move them to higher ground. The last time the island was slammed by giant waves triggered by an earthquake was back in 1700. But the destruction was so great that tribal elders have told new generations about it ever since. Members of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council, representing 3,000 people, said that when they saw images of the devastation from the December tsunami in South Asia, they realized they were in danger and needed to relocate. “I was thinking of my people when I saw that,” said Robert Dennis, chief of the Huu-ay-aht First Nation tribe. “That changed how I feel dramatically, because now I can visualize what really happened to my people.”
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