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Q: How fast does a tsunami travel?
A: In deep water a tsunami moves at a speed of over 600 miles per hour.

Q: How far can a tsunami travel and still cause damage?
A: A tsunami can travel long distances without a significant loss of energy. In 1960, a tsunami started by an undersea earthquake off [...]

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Vanishing Islands in a Rising Sea

The evacuation of all 2,000 inhabitants of Cataret Island marked the beginning of the end for many low-lying atolls in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.   Rising sea levels have flooded the food and fresh water sources on this small island off Papua, New Guinea, and made it necessary to relocate the inhabitants to nearby Bougainville.
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July 26th, 2010 | Gordon | 0 comments | Continued
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Cities in Earthquake Danger

Many of the world’s largest cities are built on active earthquake faults and remain in constant danger of being devastated by a major quake.
            Among cities exceeding 10 million in population located on or near a dangerous fault line are Los Angeles, San Francisco, Istanbul, Tokyo, Delhi, Manila, Karachi, Tehran, Mexico City, and Jakarta.
            Our [...]

July 8th, 2010 | Gordon | 0 comments | Continued
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Mountains under the Sea

            Passengers on a cruise ship probably don’t realize they are often sailing over mountain peaks at many points along their route.  The mountain under their keel may be part of the Mid-Ocean Ridge or a free standing seamount.
Mid-Ocean Ridge.  The seafloor is home to the longest continuous mountain range in the world.  The Mid-Ocean [...]

June 4th, 2010 | Gordon | 0 comments | Continued
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Oceanic Trenches: Tsunami & Earthquake Incubators

            History’s three most violent earthquakes struck in or near one of the world’s deep oceanic trenches, and all three of those events also produced major tsunamis.
Oceanic trenches can be nearly 7 miles (11km) deep and usually stretch in an arc for thousands of miles.  These elongated seafloor depressions are found where tectonic plates converge.  [...]

May 18th, 2010 | Gordon | 0 comments | Continued
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Tibetan Plateau: Where Worlds Collide

 
                At 7:49 a.m. on April 13, 2010, a 6.9 magnitude earthquake shook Qinghai, a province of China on the Tibetan Plateau, killing more than 2,000 people and injuring over 12,000.  Many thousands of structures in the area were flattened.
                Two years earlier, on May 12, 2008, a 7.9 magnitude quake struck to the southeast [...]

May 3rd, 2010 | Gordon | 0 comments | Continued
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Hotspot Volcanoes Build Islands

The Hawaiian Islands would not be here today if it were not for the hotspot volcanoes of the mid-Pacific. There would be no Kauai, no Lanai, no Molokai, no Oahu, no Maui, and no Big Island. They were all formed by shield volcanoes fed by a constant flow of magma from a superheated pocket in [...]

October 29th, 2008 | Gordon | 0 comments | Continued
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Can You Outrun a Tsunami?

Try to imagine a solid block of ocean hundreds of miles long, 3 miles deep, and as wide as the coastline, coming toward you at 500 to 600 miles an hour.  That describes a tsunami in deep water racing toward land.  A tsunami’s speed slows as it encounters the coastline but the total water mass [...]

September 8th, 2008 | Gordon | 0 comments | Continued
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July 25th, 2008 | webmaster | 2 comments | Continued