Natural Disaster Rankings of 50 US Cities
Aug 7th 2006, 1:54 pm
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Re: Natural Disaster Rankings of 50 US Cities
Originally Posted by LMUK
If I remember my Discovery programme correctly - there's a massive fault called the Cascadia just off the Oregon and Washington coast that doesn't go off very often but when it does its likely to be big and cause a Tsunami.
Trouble is its so close to land there isn't much time to get away after you've recovered from the earthquake itself.
I know there's Tsunami warning systems on the Oregon coast and Oregon State Uni has a Tsunami reseach center with a fancy wave pool.
Trouble is its so close to land there isn't much time to get away after you've recovered from the earthquake itself.
I know there's Tsunami warning systems on the Oregon coast and Oregon State Uni has a Tsunami reseach center with a fancy wave pool.
Yes, I only skimmed that article, but thats the gist of it I think - ie local stuff. For some reason I always associate Tsunamis with the long transpacific stuff, which is wrong - maybe its the name.
Apparently one of the other places at massive risk is Portugal - theres a chunk of undersea mountain due to fall off the edge of the canaries (or somewhere out there) and they reckon its so close, and the Portuguese coast so vulnerable that it'll be really nasty if when it does happen. Its supposed to be likely to happen "soon" although in geological terms I guess that could be 50,000 years off!! Stilll, not buying a holiday home there just in case
Aug 7th 2006, 6:04 pm
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Re: Natural Disaster Rankings of 50 US Cities
Originally Posted by Yorkieabroad
Yes, I only skimmed that article, but thats the gist of it I think - ie local stuff. For some reason I always associate Tsunamis with the long transpacific stuff, which is wrong - maybe its the name.
Apparently one of the other places at massive risk is Portugal - theres a chunk of undersea mountain due to fall off the edge of the canaries (or somewhere out there) and they reckon its so close, and the Portuguese coast so vulnerable that it'll be really nasty if when it does happen. Its supposed to be likely to happen "soon" although in geological terms I guess that could be 50,000 years off!! Stilll, not buying a holiday home there just in case
Apparently one of the other places at massive risk is Portugal - theres a chunk of undersea mountain due to fall off the edge of the canaries (or somewhere out there) and they reckon its so close, and the Portuguese coast so vulnerable that it'll be really nasty if when it does happen. Its supposed to be likely to happen "soon" although in geological terms I guess that could be 50,000 years off!! Stilll, not buying a holiday home there just in case
Aug 7th 2006, 6:17 pm
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Re: Natural Disaster Rankings of 50 US Cities
i'm just glad that we're not right on top of that san andreas fault.....
Aug 7th 2006, 6:23 pm
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Re: Natural Disaster Rankings of 50 US Cities
Originally Posted by TruBrit
i'm just glad that we're not right on top of that san andreas fault.....
Aug 7th 2006, 6:30 pm
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Re: Natural Disaster Rankings of 50 US Cities
Originally Posted by snowbunny
Well, we're on the Balcones Fault, but I think Austin's surprisingly high ranking is from tornadoes -- either from being at the southern end of the Great Plains, or tornadoes spawned by Gulf hurricanes and cold fronts meeting the Gulf air.
Aug 7th 2006, 7:54 pm
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Re: Natural Disaster Rankings of 50 US Cities
Originally Posted by Yorkieabroad
Yes, I only skimmed that article, but thats the gist of it I think - ie local stuff. For some reason I always associate Tsunamis with the long transpacific stuff, which is wrong - maybe its the name.
Apparently one of the other places at massive risk is Portugal - theres a chunk of undersea mountain due to fall off the edge of the canaries (or somewhere out there) and they reckon its so close, and the Portuguese coast so vulnerable that it'll be really nasty if when it does happen. Its supposed to be likely to happen "soon" although in geological terms I guess that could be 50,000 years off!! Stilll, not buying a holiday home there just in case
Apparently one of the other places at massive risk is Portugal - theres a chunk of undersea mountain due to fall off the edge of the canaries (or somewhere out there) and they reckon its so close, and the Portuguese coast so vulnerable that it'll be really nasty if when it does happen. Its supposed to be likely to happen "soon" although in geological terms I guess that could be 50,000 years off!! Stilll, not buying a holiday home there just in case
Aug 7th 2006, 8:12 pm
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Re: Natural Disaster Rankings of 50 US Cities
Originally Posted by ironporer
Actialy La Palma .
Aug 8th 2006, 12:44 am
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Re: Natural Disaster Rankings of 50 US Cities
Originally Posted by ironporer
Actialy La Palma (Canary Islands) is off the western coast of Africa, not Portugal. The show I watched on Discovery(?) showed that it could be one of the worst tsunamis ever- but for North and South America/s eastern coasts, with waves up to 500 feet high hitting.
Yeah, they are, but the tsunami will go out in all directions from the point of the collapse, and the landfall in the canaries will be so swift that warning/evacuation will be virtually impossible. Couple that with the cliff nature of much of the portuguese coast, and its gonna be a pounding. Or that was the gist of the article I read anyway...
