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Tsunami Questions
Do any of you have any tsunami questions or concerns you wish to raise at this time?
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Non vogliate negar l'esperienza di retro al sol, del mondo sanza gente Considerate la vostra semenza fatti non foste a viver come bruti ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza ~ Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia, Inferno Canto XXVI |
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The chance of tsunami in Europe is 100%. European shores have been affected, & will continue to be affected, though at a lower frequency than some other shorelines around the world (for example, Japan, Alaska, Hawaii, Chile, Java, Sumatra). European Commission: http://ec.europa.eu/research/star/in....cfm?p=32_main Athena Web: http://www.athenaweb.org/films-libra...g-1000712.html Tsunami risks are present in the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Baltic, even the North Sea. http://www.spiegel.de/international/...441819,00.html One of the most historic tsunami in all of human history struck Lisbon in 1755 after a great earthquake in the Atlantic Ocean. Voltaire incorporated the catastrophe into "Candide." Earthquakes & tsunamis struck Sicily & Cabiria in 1693 & 1783, respectively. In 1908, an earthquake & tsunami destroyed most of the city of Messina, killing almost 100,000 people: http://fohn.net/biggest-tsunami/biggest-tsunami-4.html
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What are the chances Miami will be wiped out within the next...oh let's say...50 years?
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This is cracking me up!
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Still, you may want to read this: http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-onlin...24206256.shtml http://www.puertorico-herald.org/iss...ibTsunami.html
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Non vogliate negar l'esperienza di retro al sol, del mondo sanza gente Considerate la vostra semenza fatti non foste a viver come bruti ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza ~ Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia, Inferno Canto XXVI |
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Is the "t" in tsunami silent or enunciated?
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Can this booklet help me survive in the event of a sudden Tsunami launched by the Soviet Union?
http://www.cybertrn.demon.co.uk/atomic/main.htm |
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It is not silent. It is sounded. I guess I would call the "tsu" in "tsunami" a cross between a fricative consonant & a sibilant.
You can see the "tsu" in the Japanese hiragana alphabet, middle column, 4th from the top. It is pronounced by putting a small patch on the top of the tongue on the palate directly behind the top front teeth, & forcing air through the "tube" formed by the tongue. The sound is similar to that in Yiddish in the word "tsimis" ("commotion" or "to-do").
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After World War II, the American Navy carried out nuclear testing in the South Pacific. Scientists worried that undersea nuclear explosions would trigger tsunamis. Some tests did in fact generate tsunamis -- but the tsunamis were extremely small, on the order of a few centimeters when running up ashore on local islands.
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In the column all the way to the right the 5th, 6th and 7th letters down reads: no homo
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Ok mr David, I have a question for you. I know most Tsunami's like the one in Indonesia are low to the groung when they reach shore. What conditions would it take for a the Tsunami wave to be very tall when it reaches shore?
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There were spots in Sumatra where the 2004 tsunami towered to a height of about 70 or 80 feet, because the bathymetry & shoreline funneled the water into a greater height than at most other areas. Shorelines are mapped with computers in the United States & Japan in order to show potential wave heights at various spots along the coast. You can actually get copies of these maps (usually called inundation or runup maps) from city & county emergency organizations. Various states, including Washington, Oregon, & California, have them compiled. Here's some info on inundation mapping: http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/inundation_mapping.html
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Peruvian coast is a quake zone. ACtually I think is almost the same "San Andreas" fault that extends to South America.
We just had a big earthquake in august. The sea hit the coast but fortunately not that big. The town (Pisco) near the epicenter did suffer more than Lima, the capital where I live. I live 3 blocks from the shore but fortunately my neighborhood is over a 80 meters cliff so I think that would protect us from big waves. but that's only the main part of Lima, the rest of the coast could suffer from a strong tsunami, like in 2001 when an earthquake hit Arequipa, south of Peru. There was a tsunami at its coast, reaching several towns, houses. |
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