Quirin Schiermeier travels to Sri Lanka with a team of scientists in the wake of last month's tsunami. Together with locals they search through the damage for clues of where the wave hit hardest. It was 8:45 on a tropical December morning when MohamedNazfer saw the tsunami coming. He remembers the time exactly because he was eating breakfast, listening to the news on the radio. When he heard screaming in the street outside his house on the beachfront of Kalmunai, a fishing village on the east coastof Sri Lanka, he walked a few steps towards the beach to see what all the fuss was about. Then he began to run, fast, from the white wall of water hurtling towards him.
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