Secretary of Defense William Cohen at Q&A at the Conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and U.S. Strategy, University of Georgia, Athens, Apr. 28, 1997.

The total energy released by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake has been estimated as 3.35 exajoules (3.35 —10^18 joules).

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Paul Wolfowitz the leader of the WORLD BANK: "It's something, in fact, in the case of the tsunami that required an international response. But it makes a difference. We saw in the tsunami the fact that the U.S. military was able to be delivering water to people within days of that attack..."