Question for the Tsunami god David

[DavidMn]

Hey Dave, I was watching the history channel last night and they were talking about the possibility of a Tsunami like the one in '04 hitting the west coast, and they mentioned that one like that hit in 1700. Do you know about that one?

[David]

Hey Dave, I was watching the history channel last night and they were talking about the possibility of a Tsunami like the one in '04 hitting the west coast, and they mentioned that one like that hit in 1700. Do you know about that one?Cascadia. Yes, indeed. A very real possibility.

[DavidMn]

Cascadia. Yes, indeed. A very real possibility.WHere did that Tsunami hit and how bad was it?

[David]

WHere did that Tsunami hit and how bad was it?You can check out some of the resources online. There is even some computer modeling for the 1700 quake & tsunami as well as for a hypothetical future event from the same fault.

http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/tsunami/stoch_low.html

http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of03-13/

There are speculative studies of the 1700 quake & tsunami. It would have affected shorelines from California, Oregon & Washington to Canada, Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, & around the Pacific rim, including Japan, the Kuril Islands in Russia, & islands like Hawaii.

http://www.sfu.ca/~jclague/cascadiatsunami.JPG

^This is a computer image created by a Japanese seismologist. It shows the tsunami six hours after it was created.

A Cascadia tsunami would probably be the worst in British Columbia & Washington. Remember how the tsunami in 2004 was the worst at Aceh, the shores closest to the quake?

[JazmenFlowers]

on the lines of this topic I watched Too Hot Not To Handle (sounds like a good screenname) on HBO about global warming...some really scary and alarming stuff.

[DavidMn]

You can check out some of the resources online. There is even some computer modeling for the 1700 quake & tsunami as well as for a hypothetical future event from the same fault.

http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/tsunami/stoch_low.html

http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of03-13/

There are speculative studies of the 1700 quake & tsunami. It would have affected shorelines from California, Oregon & Washington to Canada, Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, & around the Pacific rim, including Japan, the Kuril Islands in Russia, & islands like Hawaii.

http://www.sfu.ca/~jclague/cascadiatsunami.JPG

^This is a computer image created by a Japanese seismologist. It shows the tsunami six hours after it was created.

A Cascadia tsunami would probably be the worst in British Columbia & Washington. Remember how the tsunami in 2004 was the worst at Aceh, the shores closest to the quake?Thank you. I'll check that out!

[David]

Thank you. I'll check that out!Be careful, dave. Do you have your lifejacket on, by the way? :eek:

[DavidMn]

Be careful, dave. Do you have your lifejacket on, by the way? :eek:Naw, I can outswim it no problemo.:laugh: