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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An American Tsunami? | 1/9/2005 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An American Tsunami? | 1/9/2005 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An American Tsunami? | 1/9/2005 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An American Tsunami? | 1/9/2005 | See Source »

Bottom-pressure recorder Can detect minute changes in water pressure caused by a passing tsunami as small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An American Tsunami? | 1/9/2005 | See Source »

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