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Source: PREP

Level: 3

On August 13, 1868, the warship U. S. S. Wateree, anchored in the harbor of Arica, off the coast of what is now northern Chile, rode on the crest of a tsunami (seismic sea wave) and coming to rest in the Atacama Desert, it was some three miles up the coast and almost two miles inland from its initial anchorage.

  • A rode on the crest of a tsunami (seismic sea wave) and coming to rest in the Atacama Desert, it was
  • B rode on the crest of a tsunami (seismic sea wave), while it came to rest in the Atacama Desert,
  • C rode on the crest of a tsunami (seismic sea wave) and came to rest in the Atacama Desert,
  • D riding on the crest of a tsunami (seismic sea wave), to come to rest in the Atacama Desert
  • E riding on the crest of a tsunami (seismic sea wave), it had come to rest in the Atacama Desert, which is

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