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To: JimSEA
The last “big one,” which ruptured along the fault’s entire length, struck in 1700, and recent research suggests that the return interval for such magnitude-9 megathrust events is roughly every 400 to 600 years.

That one apparently generated a huge tidal wave that hit Japan in January, 1700.

2 posted on 07/23/2014 2:04:26 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

You can go to several of the rivers that empty to the ocean and go upstream a couple miles and you can see evidence of the 1700 tsunami if you look closely. I wouldn’t want to be at the beach when the next one comes.


4 posted on 07/23/2014 2:21:04 PM PDT by JimSEA
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