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To: billorites

6.9 is probably iffy about creating a tsunami. But there are reports of (understandable) wide spread panic developing with the locals.


5 posted on 02/18/2005 5:37:36 PM PST by dogbyte12
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To: dogbyte12

yeah.....I think I heard a geophysicist say they needed a 7 or 8 to create a tsunami there.....either way, I hear there may be damage and injuries........


12 posted on 02/18/2005 5:39:32 PM PST by NorCalRepub
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To: dogbyte12

7.0 is considered the threshhold for tsunamis. So this one is on the edge. But anything generated would be nowhere near what was created from the big one.


14 posted on 02/18/2005 5:40:31 PM PST by dirtboy (Drooling moron since 1998...)
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