Posted on 03/13/2011 5:27:18 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
That was Valdez. The wave was 30-40 feet high. “Old” Valdez was pretty much wiped out. After the earthquake/tsunami damage, “new” Valdez was built in another location. When I lived there (in the 70s), there were still remnants of the damage at site of the destruction.
aw, just wonderful!/sarc NOW This. This is where you get out the whiskey. Or bible. Or some people, maybe both both... :-)
The last megathrust earthquake at the Cascadia subduction zone was the 1700 Cascadia earthquake, estimated to have a moment magnitude of 8.7 to 9.2. Based on carbon dating of local tsunami deposits, it occurred around 1700. As reported in National Geographic on 8 December 2003, Japanese records indicate the quake caused a tsunami in Japan which occurred during the evening of Tuesday, 26 January 1700.
In 2008, small earthquakes were observed within the plate. The unusual quakes were described as “more than 600 quakes over the past 10 days in a basin 150 miles southwest of Newport”. The quakes were unlike most quakes in that they did not follow the pattern of a large quake, followed by smaller aftershocks; rather, they were simply a continual deluge of small quakes. Furthermore, they did not occur on the tectonic plate boundary, but rather in the middle of the plate. The subterranean quakes were heard on hydrophones, and scientists described the sounds as similar to thunder, and unlike anything heard previously.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_Fuca_Plate
lol!
I can’t find any news re: this . you ?
Yep, true sadly, sooner or later that one will have to give....
http://news.sbs.co.kr/section_news/news_read.jsp?news_id=N1000876122
Mar 13, 2011 3:01 PM | By Sapa-AFP A volcano in southwestern Japan erupted Sunday after nearly two weeks of relative silence, sending ash and rocks up to four kilometres (two and a half miles) into the air, a local official says. (more at link)
I was referring to the one cove that had a cabin washed away, and it was 200 feet above sea level, the wave grew in height as it traveled down the cove.
It’s childish ignorance, Ronin. I expected it a bit of on FR...say, you OK?
I saw on TV an item about an isolated inlet area. A father and son happened to be in the vicinity when a type of localized tsunami was triggered by a landslide on one side of the inlet. The wave it created went hundreds of feet up the opposite side of the inlet. Incredible wave cleared the forest up the side of the mountain.
NOTHING on Japanese news about this...2227 local
news here concentrates solely on nukes, quake, and rolling blackouts tomorrow. the volcano is probably relatively minor.
don’t forget Hawaii
This week has been almost constant volcanic activity in Big Island, do not know if this is an increase above normal
Also a cluster in past 7 days in Baja region
Try earthquake 3D- great graphics! Puts world activity in perspective
http://www.wolton.net/quake.html
Do you have candles ready for rolling blackouts?
Japanese volcano erupts
Mar 13, 2011 3:01 PM | By Sapa-AFP A volcano in southwestern Japan erupted Sunday after nearly two weeks of relative silence, sending ash and rocks up to four kilometres (two and a half miles) into the air, a local official says. (more at link)
48 posted on Sunday, March 13, 2011 9:23:46 AM by Netizen
A few Godzilla jokes, and I think one “God is punishing them” comment I seen, but that's it. Conservatives have been most respectful to the Japanese, and are heartbroken at what we are seeing. I think personally he is finding the comments from other places like youtube or facebook, and claiming the are from our people, or he is writing the comments himself.
The great unknown in my mind is the area between the Sea of Cortez and the Salton Sea, which is below sea level.
The only impediment to a tsunami is a swath of 100yr old silty sand from the Colorado River at the northern end of the Sea of Cortez.
Indio, CA is below sea level and all of these areas are nearby the San Andreas Fault, generally formed geologically by its past activity.
*** $ 1,000,000 to the Salvation Army’s Japanese operation.
Maybe Michael Moore can get off his overfed, fat, lardass to do it.***
Liberals don’t donate their own $$$, just ours.
many thanks! just downloaded it and tweaking it right now.
I’m in Alaska currently.
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