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To: muleskinner

A 20-foot tidal wave such as Christmas a couple years ago seems to be large. A 20-inch tidal wave such as last month is a laugher. A 200-foot tidal wave 8000 years ago in the Levant would be memorable if anyone survived to carve a note in a rock.


21 posted on 11/29/2006 4:34:31 PM PST by RightWhale (RTRA DLQS GSCW)
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To: RightWhale
A 2,000 ft tsunami, would, of course, be thought of as a flood reaching up to the tops of the mountains.

That's quite possibly something that happened about 14,000 years ago with the breakup of the two mile deep glaciation then covering Antarctica.

31 posted on 11/29/2006 6:52:12 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: RightWhale

I think the limit for earthquake induced tsunami’s is about 90 feet or something? (30 meters sounds familiar). But it is based on an earthquake typically has a maximum displacement. Of course the shoreline where it hits factors in as well.

But a tsunami caused by a landslide can be huge as there can be so much more mass displacing the water. There was one up in Alaska on a narrow fiord and a boat was lifted up over a point of land that was hundreds (a thousand??) feet in elevation above the normal water level. The guys lived to tell about it!

Okay - 1700-foot tall wave! The year - 1958.

http://www.sitnews.us/Kiffer/LituyaBay/070808_lituya_bay.html


97 posted on 03/26/2018 12:52:23 AM PDT by 21twelve
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