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Why?
They are predicting over 100,000 dead from the
tsunami disaster, and possibly 50,000 to
100,000 more deaths from the diseases that are
going to develop. Why is this happening?
They are saying the quake was equal to 100
atomic bombs, the type that were dropped on
Japan. Why? It's unbelievable. I am having
difficulty concentrating. I am confused.
They are saying it disrupted the earths
rotation. Two or three more of these and
there's no more earth. Why?
Ok...i let it out..i'm ok now. But my heart
goes out to those countries and people of
the tsunami disaster... and to the soldiers,
victims and people of the Iraq war.
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12/30/2004, 4:09 am
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Re: Why?
Scientists: Tsunami Could Hit West Coast
AP Photo NY115
By JOSEPH B. VERRENGIA
Associated Press Writer
Tsunami scientists and public safety
officials are closely watching an earthquake-
prone nation with thousands
of miles of crowded coastlines for signs of
an imminent disaster. Indonesia? Japan?
Try the United States.
Experts say the West Coast could experience
a calamity similar to the one they have
been watching unfold half a world
away.
``People need to know it could happen,''
said geologist Brian Atwater of the
U.S. Geological Survey.
Scientists say grinding geologic
circumstances similar to those in Sumatra
also exist just off the Pacific
Northwest coast. They are a loaded gun
that could trigger a tsunami that could
hit Northern California, Washington,
Oregon and British Columbia in minutes -
too fast for the nation's deep-sea
tsunami warning system to
help.
In fact, Atwater said there was a
9.0 earthquake under the Pacific more than
300 years ago that had
devastating consequences. He and
other scientists last year reported
finding evidence of severe flooding in
the Puget Sound area in 1700, including
trees that stopped growing after ``taking
a bath in rising tide
waters.''
The danger rests just 50 miles off the
West Coast in a 680-mile undersea fault
known as the Cascadia subduction zone
that behaves much like one that ruptured
off Sumatra. The 1700 quake occurred along
the Cascadia
fault.
Scientists say a giant rupture along the
fault would cause the sea floor to bounce
20 feet or more, setting off powerful
ocean waves relatively close to shore.
The first waves could hit coastal
communities in 30 minutes or less,
according to computer
models.
Seattle; Vancouver, British Columbia;
and other big cities in the region
probably would be relatively protected
from deadly flooding because of their
inland locations. But other,
smaller communities could be
devastated.
And while buildings in the United States
are far more solid than the shacks and
huts that were obliterated in some of
Asia's poor villages, few structures
could withstand nearby tremors as powerful
as those that occurred Sunday in
Sumatra.
Moreover, such a quake would be way too
close to shore for the nation's network
of deep-sea wave gauges to be of any
help.
Even in the case of quakes happening
farther out in the Pacific or in Alaska,
the U.S. warning system might not be
adequate.
The network - which consists of six
deep-sea instruments in Alaska,
Washington, Oregon and Hawaii and near
the equator off the coast of Peru - is
thin and scattered, and at least two of
the gauges in Alaska are not even
reporting daily wave readings.
Also, predicting where a tsunami is likely
to come ashore cannot be done with the kind
of precision seen in hurricane
forecasts.
Eddie N. Bernard, who directs the network
for the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, said the
six sensors are the ``bare minimum''
for adequate warning. He said there are
plans to expand the system to 20 sensors
in the next five years, including 10
gauges for the seismically active
Aleutian
Islands.
Whether the continental United States
is vulnerable to tsunamis from
Asian earthquakes is another question.
Hawaii and parts of Alaska certainly
are exposed, but whether earthquake
fault lines in Japan and Southeast Asia
are oriented in the right directions to
send tsunamis all they way to the Lower
48 states is
debatable.
As for the Atlantic Coast, a tsunami
is considered extremely
unlikely.
Some computer models suggest East Coast
cities are vulnerable to a large tsunami
if there were a huge volcanic eruption
and landslide in the Canary Islands,
off northwest Africa. But other
researchers say such an event would
happen only once in 10,000 years, and such
a disruption is unlikely to occur all at
once.
12/29/04 20:54
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12/30/2004, 1:42 pm
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Big Johnson
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Re: Why?
Yes, very sad and disturbing. Lot's of "End of the World" talk too, like after every disater or war. The Lord said though that only he knows the Day and the Time!
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12/30/2004, 11:41 pm
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L L
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Re: Why?
Watches and clocks and calendars are man-made devices....
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12/31/2004, 5:48 pm
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Re: Why?
IN THE YEAR 2525!
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12/31/2004, 5:55 pm
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L L
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Re: Why?
Tonight's national news stories and pictures from the Sri Lanka area are MOST disturbing. It is unfathomable that nearly 150,000 people were lost.
With continued thoughts and prayers.
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12/31/2004, 8:27 pm
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