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To: Larry Lucido

The cam is still up as of 11:59 AST, I am about 215 miles northeast of Augustine but I am more concerned there may be some danger for the town of Homer only 75 miles east across the Cook Inlet, its a lowlyinf fishing/tourist community.
If the volcano has a flank collapse it could generate a tsunami, it has before with a wave height of 30 feet it was stated somewhere in the history of eruptions I believe.


30 posted on 01/29/2006 1:09:07 PM PST by Daniel Ramsey
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To: Daniel Ramsey
Re: I am more concerned there may be some danger for the town of Homer only 75 miles east across the Cook Inlet, its a lowlyinf fishing/tourist community. If the volcano has a flank collapse it could generate a tsunami, it has before with a wave height of 30 feet it was stated somewhere in the history of eruptions I believe.

Looking at a map... Never been up there... There are lots of small towns all along the inlet leading north east to Anchorage. A tide wave could do a lot of damage!

Got my fingers, toes and legs crossed for good luck to that part of Alaska.

36 posted on 01/29/2006 1:18:10 PM PST by Bender2 (Stop doodling around... Read the first three chapters of my Science Fiction novel.)
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To: Daniel Ramsey

Flank collapses are rather rare as a percentage of the total eruptions of Augustine, and there's some dispute of how big the local tsunami that supposedly hit Homer in the late 1800s was.


42 posted on 01/29/2006 1:49:44 PM PST by Strategerist
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