vgabndo - 2-21-2012 at 02:13 PM
Lots of folks living and visiting in Baja hang out in tsunami-land.
That's my justification for posting this here.
I had a real goose bumper last evening. You can duplicate the experience. Google earth has recently re-done that part of Japan where the 3-11-11
tsunami hit in super detail. A quick scan of the coast cued me to expanses of white. Zooming-in, they became port cities, or the foundations of port
cities. BUT THEN...in many places I could drag the street view man to a street corner and drive through the damaged areas for miles, stopping and
looking 360 any time I chose. In street view, any side roads filmed will show as a superimposed line from the one the camera is following.
Because the Google vehicle that took those pictures was driving out of its way to look at surviving buildings, we get to go along.
I found several places where I could follow the debris far up a side canyon until just lumber and boxes littered the back yard of a beautiful Japanese
mountain home. Below it, all the way to the sea was nothing but foundations and wreckage.
There but for fortune.....or...human life on the Ring of Fire.
Osprey - 2-22-2012 at 07:33 AM
Vag, I think all of us who live near the shore down here have thought about Tsunamis with the fault so close >> in the middle of the SOC.
Two years ago there was an 8.8 quake in Chile that looked like it might come up here and hurt us but it hit the beach down there at 8 feet and nothing
noticable hit the peninsula up here.
I've heard that quakes in the SOC won't do much to either shore of the gulf because of the depth of the fault and the fact that it is not a long fetch
for the force to travel. Hope they're right about that.