Scientists: Tsunami Could Hit West Coast

Yahoo! News (AP) ^ | 1/3/2005 | Joseph B. Verrengia

[compman]

Maybe this would be a good thing. San Francisco, Oakland, and LA all need a good enema anyways.

Since I live inland about 30 miles from the coast, maybe the after effect is I would have Ocean Front property!.

[citizencon]

"Much of the California coast is bordered by seacliffs - which minimize the tsunami risk."

And excessively secured celebrity mansions with barriers as high as the Great Wall.

[506trooper]

It's kind of wierd to drive along the WA coast and see the Tsunami evacation route signs isnt' it?"

That's why I asked the question in #12 in the first place.

"Question for you. Does CA have clearly marked "Tsunami Evacuation Route" signs along the coast roads?"

I thought it was a Federal regulation that made them appear suddenly a few years ago, didn't pay them much more than a passing thought, as in, Duh! Big water coming leave now!, but as I was breaking for lunch this thread started, so I kinda went with it.

The lack or seeming lack of Tsunami Evacuation signs in CA kinda piqued my curiosity.

It may be sick humor, but I think I'll take along one of the evacuation signs and post it at LoLo pass next trip to Sturgis....that ought to be high enough.

[Born to Conserve]

I've got bad news for you. The shape of the harbors will intensify the wave.

Did you know that tsunami is Japanese for "harbor wave"?

[Major_Risktaker]

Blah blah blah... We could get hit by a meteor too.

If if ain't one thing it't onther.

[blam]

"Blah blah blah... We could get hit by a meteor too."

It could cause a doozie of a tsunami if it fell into water...even the Great Lakes or the Gulf Of Mexico.

[RobRoy]

Yep.

Key word is "if."

[Arthalion]

The Canary Island thing is unlikely

Actually, no geologist who has ever examined La Palma disagrees with the idea that the flank will collapse into the ocean one day, they just disagree about the speed of the collapse and the size of the wave that it will generate. The flank already slipped about 9 feet in a 1949 eruption.

The debate really comes from evidence presented by the Hawaiian Islands. Seafloor evidence indicates that vast sections of the Hawaiian Islands, including big chunks of Oahu and Maui, and possibly 75% of the original Molokai, fell into the sea in sudden collapses that sent boulders the sizes of skyscrapers rolling nearly 100 miles across the ocean floor. The waves generated by those collapses would have been incomprehensibly large.

On the other hand, the sea floor also shows evidence of slow slumps, where huge areas of the islands have slowly subsided over periods of decades, centuries, or even millenia. The 2000 "Slow Quake", where over 70 square miles of the big island "slipped" about 4 inches over 36 hours is often pointed to as an example of a gradual slumping event.

The disagreement at this point isn't over whether La Palma will collapse, but which model it will follow.

[blam]

" We could get hit by a meteor too."

Evidence Of Tunguska-Type Impacts Over The Pacific Basin In 1178AD

"A number of observations suggest that catastrophic cometary or meteoritic impacts around the same time also affected the Pacific basin: Maori legends of great fires destroying forests and the moa bird, to be associated to the recently found Tapanui craters; dynastic changes and migrations throughout Polynesia; very intense El Niño activity with flooding of the coastal Peruvian regions; demise of the local Moche civilizations, and the birth of the Incas civilization higher in the Andes; the emigration of the Aztecs from the Pacific coast to the interior in the most well protected area from tsunamis; unusually intense typhoon activity in the Chinese-Japanese see; unusually strong floods in Northern China with diversion of the course of the Huang Ho; unusually cold wheather in the Mongolian plateau, probably a main reason for the Mongolians invading nearby areas; a great sign in the sky seen by the boy Gengis Khan forecasting his future of world master; the number of comets seen in the sky as recorded by Chinese astronomers was unusually higher."

[NRA2BFree]

I better get an ark ready.

LOL! Wouldn't a helicopter work better? ;-)

[capitan_refugio]

Of course, the celebrity mansions on top of the sea cliffs occasionally tumble down the side when it rains hard! ;^)

[BurbankKarl]

and it could not!

however, when the big one hits LA.....expect 100s of thousands dead and injured and burning of bodies...it is in the disaster plan.

[GOP_Raider]

I'm originally from Marin County (San Rafael) and I lived in Danville for a while in the early 90's (I now live in Reno, NV). It's funny because when I lived in the Bay Area, the Raiders were in l.a. and my uncle had season tickets when the Silver and Black played there so that's when it kind of all began for me.

[SunkenCiv]

SHIP-SINKING MONSTOR WAVES REVEALED BY ESA SATELLITES European Space Agency.

^ | 21 July 2004 Posted on 07/25/2004 12:36:29 AM PDT by Yosemitest http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1178061/posts?page=8#8

[traumer]

Not to worry - the UN and the World will help US generously...

[r9etb]

From the seattle waterfront, a reasonably healthy person could WALK to safety in under 15 minutes.

Completely true. I don't argue that at all -- it is, in fact, part of my point.

It's more a matter of mindset: how many folks would try to escape in their cars? Probably a lot of them -- for some reason, "getting away" seems to have evolved in many to a mindset of hopping in the car and driving to safety.

I'm guessing that IF a tsunami ever chose to hit; and IF people had some kind of warning, that the majority of fatalities would be people stuck in their cars. JMO....

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 01/03/2005. Thanks Pyro7480.