Don't be so sure. The Seattle Fault runs right under Puget Sound.
Here is NOAA computer animation model of Seattle being inundated by a tsunami from a mere 7.3 on that fault. It's a 18.6 MB Quicktime file.
Posted on 12/30/2004 7:07:26 PM PST by Dallas59
The first wave that came in was deceptive...Then it came again with an overwelming force...Very few fooled by the first wave could survive the second...
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Oh God... :(
Amazing to me was the two women who carelessly waded back out into the street to see what they could see... I would bet they were two that did not make it.
Toward the end of the clip, the one guy holding onto the side of the building was scared witless... the water kept going higher and he kept looking fr something new to hang onto.
Glad I live in Seattle. The onlt tsunami here could come from a nuclear bomb dropped into the Puget Sound.
I know. I can't watch any more of these.
I wish these weren't streaming, i have been trying to save these files.
Yeah but you have to put up with all the democrat Vote fraudsters. Life has its checks and balances.
While a tsunami from a Cascadia megathrust would likely be reduced somewhat gettig into Puget Sound, you could have a big tsunami from an earthquake directly UNDER Puget Sound.
>>>I wish these weren't streaming, i have been trying to save these files.
I think Mplayer can do that for you. If not, than VLC claims to have File writing capabilities:
http://www.videolan.org/streaming/features.html
The sheer force of the water is amazing.
Actually poking around the net there actually was a Tsunami over 21 feet high within Puget Sound from a quake on the Seattle fault 1,000 years ago.
Do you use MS? Opposite click on the link for the video, does the resulting menu include "save target as"? That's it, quick save.
The islands in Puget sound show a history of vertical motion +-50 ft. or more.
The subduction area is offshore a pretty good distance. A tsunami from there would have trouble getting into Puget Sound.
The problem is there are assorted other faults on shore, one directly under Seattle. A 7.0 quake on that would be worse for Seattle than a 9.0 on the Subduction zone. 1,100 years ago a quake on the Seattle Fault caused a tsunami on the site of present day Seattle.
Glad I'm in Missouri. I'm not near any ocean, and we haven't had any earthquakes......oh, wait.
The NEW MADRID fault. I guess it's not safe anywhere.
And if Yellowstone Caldera goes, well...
The file is stored in my temp file dir, but it is not saved in a format I can play back, that is what offends me. It has some strange edxtension, and when I change it it wont work
Don't be so sure. The Seattle Fault runs right under Puget Sound.
Here is NOAA computer animation model of Seattle being inundated by a tsunami from a mere 7.3 on that fault. It's a 18.6 MB Quicktime file.
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