Subj : Re: we are here and they are
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Nancy Backus
Date : Fri Feb 02 2018 18:50:54

-=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 30-Jan-2018 23:18 <=-

 NB>> I guess the US/Canada west coast doesn't expect tsunamis

 MK> Au contraire.  The real issue is when and not if. 

So it's like us and earthquakes... not something that happens all often,
but something that can and does happen....

 MK> Also many communities aren't prepared for it given the lack of warning
 MK> for the Alaska one which was definetly powerful enough to generate a
 MK> major tsunami but didn't simply because it was a slip-slide jobber and
 MK> there wasn't enough vertical offset to generate a major tsunami. 
 MK> However that wasn't known until hours after the quake.  It could have
 MK> easily been a major tsunami. 

Are you saying that the warning wasn't given out properly for this
one...?  Here on the east coast news, we heard about the warning, and
then the eventually lifting of it when it was found to not be happening
after all...  Or were you saying that the Alaska earthquake came without
warning....? 

 MK> I believe the last one was back in 1964 and did major damage to Port
 MK> Alberni which isn't too far from here.  That tsunami was caused by a
 MK> 9.2 Alaskan earthquake. 

That is a while ago...  :)  IIRC, this one was only a 7.2....?

ttyl       neb

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