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 ...
If frogs had wings they wouldn't bump their butts...........
~<|;o)
Then the Hollywood Liberals in the Malibu Colony and the Peoples Republic of Santa Monica might finally have something 'real' to whine about.
Publish this in Mexico please. Say it is IMMINENT.
"The problem is that it would take out San Diego too...and since I live there, I would consider that to be a tad problematic"
Naah, the road leading down to the canyon will make a nice boat-launch ramp !
Can't you just suck it up and take one for the team? ;)
All of my family live at the end of the dirt roads, on tall mountains. We have boats too.
Rednecks safe.
Israel ? Japan ? Taiwan ? Poland ?
Thing is the Indian Ocean Tsunami propagated AROUND the tip of Sri Lanka and did a lot of damage on the side facing AWAY from the quake, so the propagation probably will be re-examined.
Also there are a couple of faults directly under Puget Sound that can generate a 10 foot+ tsunami WITHIN the Sound, with the added bonus that they'd hit Seattle instantaneously with effectively no warning.
But what if my aunt had b*lls?
Could have been worded better.
It's WHEN a Magntiude 9 quake strikes along the Pacific Northwest. It's just a matter of time. And it may not be that long.
LOL. If aliens came "to serve man"......
The asteroid WOULDN'T be errant.......
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.
ROTFLMAO
I would miss San Diego but if Seattle goes to it might be worth it
Dear God, please leave Morro Bay, Pismo and San Diego.
I'm at the top of Cajon pass. Am I safe?
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