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Scientists: Sumatra quake longest ever recorded
Temblor big enough to 'vibrate the whole planet '
By Marsha Walton
CNN
Thursday, May 19, 2005 Posted: 3:53 PM EDT (1953 GMT)
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The Sumatra-Andaman quake released an amount of energy equal to a 100 gigaton bomb.
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(CNN) -- Dramatic new data from the December 26, 2004, Sumatran-Andaman earthquake that generated deadly tsunamis show the event created the longest fault rupture and the longest duration of faulting ever observed, according to three reports by an international group of seismologists published Thursday in the journal "Science."