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Sometime between 1381 and 1391, an earthquake exceeding magnitude 8.0 rocked the northeastern Caribbean and sent a tsunami barreling toward the island of Anegada. Now, in an open-access paper recently published in Geophysical Research Letters, led by Hali Kilbourne, an associate research professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, researchers narrow the tsunami time frame to the last decades of the 14th century. The researchers expect this finding to support ongoing efforts to prepare for future Caribbean tsunamis.