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To: chris37; dr_lew; 21twelve; SunkenCiv; blam; All

The date 73,000ya is pretty close to the 74,000ya date for the eruption of Toba leaving a crater 16 x 65 miles. I wonder if these events were somehow connected. Was the earth in a particularly restless mode in that millenia?

Apparently after a major Alaskan earthquake in the 1900s there was a tsunami that ran 1,000 feet high up a fiord.


38 posted on 12/25/2018 10:30:40 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin
The Alaskan event you mentioned was at Lituya Bay -- a tributary to the fjord suffered a massive ice landslide, which blooped right into the water, and sent a big wave in both directions. There were actually a number of campers along the Bay, some of whom survived the event. The debris line reached inland to 1700 feet elevation (roughly a third of a mile). There was no significant tsunami in the Pacific, AFAIK.

39 posted on 12/25/2018 11:35:59 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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