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Danger from afar A tsunami triggered by an Alaskan earthquake in 1964 swept four children off a beach in Newport, Ore. It also claimed 12 lives in Northern California...
...Seattle tsunami? If a Cascadia quake were large enough, it could drive a wall of water toward Seattle and Vancouver. The Puget Basin has its own network of faults fully capable of generating large earthquakes and tsunamis...
...Tsunami central Before last month's disaster, only three earthquakes in the past 100 years were magnitude 9.0 or higher: Kamchatka in 1952 (9.0), Chile in '60 (9.5) and Alaska in '64 (9.2). ??Each came out of the Pacific's Ring of Fire, and each produced oceanwide tsunamis...
Warning system The workhorses of the Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis are a series of buoys tethered to the ocean floor and linked to the outside world by satellite. The Pacific is tsunami ready, but not the Atlantic or Indian oceans...
Bottom-pressure recorder Can detect minute changes in water pressure caused by a passing tsunami as small...