Our local paper interviewed a nationally renowned geologist on this matter and it was explained in great detail why this would not happen here.
SOmething about a ridge under the ocean which would prevent the waves from getting that high.
Natural and man-made "ocean-breaks" muffle the effects of these kinds of oceanic disturbances. Cities on deeper coastal shelfs that lack these kinds of breakers are hence more at risk. Anyone know off-hand which these are? Florida seems to come to mind....
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The Atlantic Shelf extends for hundreds of miles. There is no similar shelf along the Pacific coast. The shelf (which is what you would think it is based on the word) creates shallow waters in a protective fringe. This shallowness drags on wave energy and saps it as the energy passes over it. It is the reason that, even with five Hurricanes a year, the East Coast never sees the size of wave that Hawaii gets every year.