In the northeast Caribbean, the area called the Puerto Rico trench features a subduction zone. When the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami hit, ten Brinks' group received funding from the U.S. government to study the tsunami potential of the Puerto Rico trench.
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Others with outstanding influence on and dedication to TAMC and the engineering sciences are individuals such as John J. Richey, whose career at Texas A&M lasted from 1912 to 1941. John Thomas Lamar McNew, who began his employment at TAMC in 1920, remained an innovative part of the institution until 1945.