Tsunami and Natural Disaster Info

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Tsunami Warning Time

The amount of warning time a tsunami warning system can provide depends on the distance between your location and the location of the undersea event.  A tsunami can travel 500 to 600 mph in deep water, slowing as it approaches shore.  If the undersea earthquake that starts the tsunami is 500 miles offshore in deep [...]

19Dec2008 | 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 [...]

29Oct2008 | 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 [...]

8Sep2008 | Gordon | 0 comments | Continued
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Storm Surges Can Kill

A hurricane-driven storm surge can be as destructive and deadly as a major tsunami started by an undersea earthquake or exploding volcano.  In fact, tropical cyclones — called hurricanes in the Atlantic, typhoons in the eastern Pacific, and cyclones in Australia, Bangladesh, and India — have done far more damage in the past 100 years [...]

8Sep2008 | Gordon | 0 comments | Continued
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Did you know?

There’s a natural disaster about to happen….
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25Jul2008 | webmaster | 2 comments | Continued