Posted on 06/14/2005 12:38:57 PM PDT by Strategerist
If a giant magnitude 9 earthquake strikes someday along the coast of the Pacific Northwest, or if, against all odds, an errant asteroid plunges into the ocean many miles off California, a monstrous tsunami could drown low- lying lands all up and down the continent's western edge -- and now a UC Santa Cruz scientist has calculated the sweep of such an event.....
...To model the event's effects, Ward assumes that in a huge quake on the Cascadia subduction zone, the two crustal plates would abruptly slip apart vertically by at least 50 feet in three successive blocks from south to north, generating a 9.2 magnitude quake. Aside from enormous quake damage on land for hundreds of miles, Ward estimates the resulting tsunami would pile a wave more than 20 feet high crashing onto the Oregon-Washington coast, inundating Seattle and the entire Puget Sound region as well as Portland and the mouth of the Columbia River.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
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*BUMP*!
How could we ping the few FReepers in those areas to the Breaking News thread fast enough so they could get out in time?
I moved from Carmel to Southern Oregon in January...
I used to attend that Lincoln Day dinner once in a while at the Sea Cliff Inn...
Don't worry, the Santa Cruz city council will pass a resolution on tidal waves... LOL!
The countries that would come our aid are the ones with money. Can't blame Indonesia for being dirt poor.
"Amazing this article appeared in the SF Chronicle on Monday! Prophetic..."
Yeh! Four in California in the last few days. Creepy.
Not only that, it would be hugh.
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