Michael Thomas wrote:
Gavin Pearce wrote:
*yawn*. A foot and a half isn't going to be all *that* bad
Sorry to continue off topic:
Try to imagine ... a temporary very high tide, rather than a cresting wave. In addition to the "height", it's the wave-length you have to take into account. Tsunami's rarely become towering breaking waves.
Quite right. The other part is that the water becomes a very fast moving river, especially in places where it's not normally one. Watching the
I don't underestimate the power of even a small tsunami. I have friends rendered homeless by the Santa Cruz tsunami (their boat being their only home). Though I can understand one is underwhelmed by a mag 6.x earthquake in that region considering I believe more than 20 6+ ones happened there since the first mag 7.2 earthquake that happened 2-3 days before the mag 9 one. Most recent ones: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/145_40_eqs.php -- http://goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/ http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/plural-of-virus.html