I'd love to see a map showing how far inland the water would go. I'm about 4 miles inland and might have to get ready to own ocean front property. :o)
One thing the article wasn't clear on was exactly how well the wave propagates into Puget Sound.
At least one good thing about the Indian Ocean Tsunami is that people finally understand what one actually is; previously there had been very little footage of one, besides some grainy black-and-white from Hilo Hawaii in the 1940s, and a bit from Japan more recently; documentaries and movies kept showing curling surfer waves from Hawaii and whatnot, and didn't convey it's basically a flood not a single curling wave. So I think people understand that even a 10 foot tsunami is disastrous.
If you acquire ocean front property, maybe we could all come for a weekend bbq... how about if everyone brings beer and goodies from their own towns? That will be fun.
It would be a really long steady surge, not one high breaking wave. I saw a video taken in Banda Aceh from the second floor of a rich folks' house on a hill, where a wedding had been in progess when the recent tidal wave there hit. There was about a 10-15 knot current shoving a 50' surge of water all through the city - it looked like the surge was heading inland for a distance of several miles.