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Other Causes of "Great Waves" |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--THE TSUNAMI'S RIPPLES |
| Author: By a Middle East Times staff writer |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2005 |
| Size: 695 Words, 4,373 Characters |
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A tsunami in Scotland? Canada? New Jersey? Such places hardly seem targets for killer waves. After all, they are located on relatively stable plates, not on the seismic hotspots of the Indian and Pacific Oceans that generate earthquakes and, with them, the risk of tsunamis.
But oceanographers and geologists delving into the science of Great Waves are uncovering more and more secrets about these strange, powerful, and mercifully rare phenomena. They are assembling evidence that tsunamis can be unleashed or amplified by submarine landslides...
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... about how and where a quake-driven tsunami will strike. But subsidence tsunamis are a different matter, simply because we have only scant details about the local geology of the seabed.
"We know more about the dark side of the Moon than we do about the ocean floor," says Masson. "Only a few percent of the bottom of the sea has been properly mapped."
© 2005 News World Communications Inc.
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