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 ...
What?? Wipe-out half of Blue America? Be still, my heart...
She met him one night in Laredo, oops Marty Robbins doesn't like that one. Naah, I better not.
Heh heh heh heh
My son lives in Glendora (LA area) and when I was out there about two years ago, I decided that his 550 ft elevation was safe from a tsunami.
I sort of wonder at what point people tire of inane, repetitive jokes.
Clearly, such a quake would be a Karl Rove strategy to wipe out blue states (and British Columbia). Why haven't the NYT and CNNCBSABCNBC whined about this? Biden!! Teddy!! We need hearings!!
Alright, here's a couple to hold you over. The other one is in your Freepmail.
There is a German, a illegal Mexican, and an Yankee fishing in a boat. It starts sinking. The German says "We have enough beer in Germany" and he throws it off. The Mexican says "We have enough tacos in Mexico" and throws the tacos overboard, the Yank picks up the Mexican and says, We have more than enough illegal Mexicans in America" and throws him over too.
I gotta "hand" it to ya ... heh heh heh heh
That was very good, I saw that. It's amazing that those guys on the boat survived. The geologists (?) were tipped off by the trees that were missing way up the side of the mountains.
Dang! That sucks.
That's gonna be quite a water slide down the pass. Make sure you've got your flippers and your nose plugs.
If I see somebody waving wildly, I'll know it's you!
chu have freep mail ... remember ... you asked for it .... :<)
Yep, that was the show.
Young aspen trees had replaced the older fir trees 200 feet up off the water and they couldn't figure out why until the fishing boat went for a ride.
Guy builds a home in the low lands and it gets flooded.
Builds his next home halfway up the mountain and a landslide demolishes it.
Third home on the Mt. top is hit by lightening and burns.
Guy turns to heaven and pleads " Why Me Lord, Why ME?"
Booming voice from heaven.... "I don't know, there is just something about you I can't stand"
Blue states sink, and the downside is?LOL.
It would deal a much bigger blow to the economy than did 9/11
Bye-bye Bill Gates.
Have you looked at the action in Alaska today.
For the 6.8 I clicked to get tsunami info and it gave me an update for a 5.something that occurred after.
Would like your insight on the Alaskan action that is hitting 5-6.8 today.
BTW I put your screen name as a tag line untill I can spell it, sometimes I want to ask you something and cannot get ahold of you. Plus you don't answer very often for what ever reason.
That's 4 good guesses... Thanks.
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