Question for the Tsunami god 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.

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?

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.

Thank you. I'll check that out!

Be careful, dave. Do you have your lifejacket on, by the way? :eek:

Naw, I can outswim it no problemo.:laugh: