Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Tsunami to nowhere

My new SRL is in. The first article is about a tsunami hazard in a one-horse town, with a teensy little harbour. The only interest is that this town is a tsunami magnet, and has had a tide gauge for a very long time.


It just seems to suck up tsunamis from the Kuril Islands, which is an extremely active subduction zone.

It has this tiny marina, which got bashed during the last tsunami, which nobody else noticed.


But the neat thing is that not all of these tsunamis beam right to Crescent City, only the ones at the south of the zone. This makes it somewhat difficult to activate the stupid sirens at the right time.

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