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.
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.
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.
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.
The islands in Puget sound show a history of vertical motion +-50 ft. or more.
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.
In the above picture of the Seattle fault, the brown grassy area in the foreground is a marine terrace that was violently uplifted above sea level by said earthquake c. 1100 years ago.Trees never colonized it (perhaps discouraged by the natives as well as the salt and lack of soil).
see http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/pacnw/actflts/sfz/
(second paragraph under "THE SEATTLE FAULT"
If I'm not mistaken, this is Restoration Point, which George Vancouver named in 1792 and found a very pleasant place for a picnic.
http://www.civilization.ca/aborig/nwca/nwcah05e.html
George was 92 years late for the Big One, which also created some nice picnic areas on the Pacific Coast:
http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/earthquakes/bigone/detective.html
This caused considerable mayhem here (there are legends about vanishing villages and beached whales) and also killed people in Japan:
http://www.pnsn.org/HAZARDS/CASCADIA/simple_historic_records.html
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2003AM/finalprogram/abstract_63686.htm
http://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/top10/fault.html
Here's the guy who tracked down the 1700 M9 earthquake:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,142753,00.html
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-hs.tsunami07jan07,1,4816486.story?coll=bal-health-headlines&ctrack=1&cset=true
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