Articles in Tsunami
Alaska Could Cause Japan-Style Tsunami
A particular section of the fault near the Semidi Islands has not ruptured since at least 1788, and measurements on this area – which lies four to five kilometres under water – reveal the pressure is accumulating rapidly. If the Pacific Ocean plate slips, as happened in the geographically-similar Tohoku subduction zone off the coast of Japan, a tsunami could occur – and the deaths could happen as far away as Hawaii and California.
According to Discovery.com, scientists are now investigating the underwater fault-line in the hope of estimating the likelihood of danger to the U.S. and to the Hawaiian islands.
The last time a slip between the Alaskan plates occurred led to the Good Friday Earthquake, on March 27, 1964, which was the powerful earthquake in U.S. history – a 9.2 magnitude earthquake which led to 145 deaths.
Tsunamis also occurred in this area in 1947 and 1957, while a magnitude 7.4 …
Japan Updates Tsunami Predictions
In 2003 the Japan government’s expert panel on tsunamis predicted the maximum height of any tsunami created by an earthquake to be 20 meters. In wake of last year’s disaster they have changed their evaluation, and the new worst-case scenario is a 35-meter wave. Tokyo could be hit by 20-meter+ waves, and the Hamaoka nuclear plant could face 21-meter waves – which means they should look into extending the height of their 18-meter high breakwater currently under construction.
The panel noted that the projection was for “the worst possible tsunami” and the “chance of its occurrence is extremely low”.
Source: News.com.au
$20 Million Steel Arks
In my opinion, it went something like this:
A few authors suggest a global cataclysm could occur in 2012
Patrick Geryl says a good way of surviving would be unsinkable yachts
Roland Emmerich makes the movie 2012, using many of Geryl’s ideas. He replaces yachts with massive steel arks
Hardened Structures starts making steel arks for clients
One of those real arks is pictured above. For $20 million you get a 900 ton steel ship that can hold 180 people and has supplies that will last for five years. this isn’t someone’s daydream, this is a genuine survival ark that (hopefully) will be used if a massive tsunami strikes where it is situated.
For more, including the CNN video that broke the story, see Noah’s Ark News.
Blue Eye Noah: Survival RV
Speaking of Xmas wish lists…
Here’s an interesting idea – it’s a regular RV that you can leave parked in your driveway. But if a tsunami comes, and the floating tubes are attached, in becomes a boat. It’s tough (kevlar) and self-contained.
Made in Taiwan. Their website is blueeyenoah.com
Check out these features:
diesel generator, plus optional solar panel and wind-power generator
optional positive pressure air filter and water filter
bullet-proof – built with Kevlar
water-proof – it’s a boat when you add the floating tubes
17, 19, 21 and 23 feet models
It’s quite affordable, with prices starting at US$40,000. Available in the USA in the northern spring, just in time for the end of the world.
The name is interesting, here’s what they say:
…a natural disaster about 8,000 years ago wiped out other Homo sapiens races in the Black Sea area, and only one blue-eyed person (family) survived, resulting in a gene explosion by …
Updates: Flood, Tsunami & CME
Thailand is now 1/3 under water due to the worsening floods. This map shows the affected area (might take a little while to load).
Up to 20 million tons of debris from the Japanese tsunami in March will eventually be washed ashore on the west coast of the USA, and will start arriving in three years. The debris includes TVs, fridges and shipping boats. Expect beachcombing to become a boom hobby!
Half of the USA got to see the northern lights last Monday, thanks to a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun. The pic below is from Norway, more recent pics are at SpaceWeather.com
Tsunami Survival Capsule
Found at TechFlash:
…a tsunami escape capsule that could protect up to six people for as little as $1,000….The idea is simple: a 7-foot diameter ball, probably made out of aluminum, outfitted with internal seats and safety harnesses. In general it would have to protect people only for an hour or two, until tsunami waters receded.
This isn’t a bad idea, but personally my preference would be to not live on the coast, or just make sure you are alerted by tsunami warnings and flee inland. So while I certainly wouldn’t rely on one of these, I think they would be well suited to being your plan B for if normal escape is hindered.
Over the years I’ve had a similar idea percolating, but because I am not an engineer it won’t become reality (unless this post inspires someone). I think if you made a capsule but gave it …
Removing Iodine-13 / 37 Meter Tsunami / Glaciers growing
The best solution may be the one used routinely to treat water at the Savannah River Site. The process combines activated carbon, reverse osmosis, and ion exchange. If one doesn’t get the iodine-131, two others have a chance to capture the radiation through other means.
And that may be the best solution for the average drinker of tap water as well.
Easy! But if you are thinking that running your drinking water through activated carbon, reverse osmosis, and an ion exchange isn’t easy, perhaps consider moving away from nuclear threats.
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The 37 meter tsunami isn’t historical, nor specifically predicted for the future. It was this year’s Japanese tsunami. Deduced from high-water marks.
That’s tall enough to engulf a 10-story building. But “we think we will see [evidence of] bigger waves in other areas,” says Satoko Oki, a seismologist at the University of Tokyo’s Earthquake Research Institute.
The Japanese are #1 experts on tsunamis, and they …
100 Days of Disaster
I’m one of the interviewees for an Australian documentary, 100 Days of Disaster, screening tomorrow (Monday) on Channel 10 at 10pm. Patrick Geryl was also interviewed, plus I believe a few orthodox scientists, some religion experts and I think an astrologer. All being asked if we should expect the rise in natural disasters to continue.
To promote the show I am doing 11 (!) radio interviews during Monday – here are the times.
Tsunami Underestimation – When Will We Learn?
The reason behind the whole Japanese tsunami nuclear disaster is simple – they doubted a tsunami could be that big. Doomsday researchers know that in the distant past tsunamis have been as high as half a mile, yet the Japanese even chose to ignore relatively recent records:
In postulating the maximum-sized earthquake and tsunami that the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex might face, TEPCO’s engineers decided not to factor in quakes earlier than 1896.
That meant the experts excluded a major quake that occurred more than 1000 years ago – a tremor followed by a powerful tsunami that hit many of the same locations as the recent disaster.
Here’s Wikipedia on 3 ancient tsunamis at this location, and predictions of last month’s tsunami:
The 869 Sanriku earthquake and tsunami struck the area around Sendai in the northern part of Honshu on 9 July 869. The earthquake had an estimated magnitude of 8.6 on …
National Research Council: USA is unprepared for tsunamis
Like many potential disasters, the problem does not lie with the technology, but education. While tsunamis that form across the ocean will trigger alarms, the US is “is particularly ill-equipped to give warning of close-to-shore tsunamis that arrive less than an hour after a seismic event such as an earthquake, landslide, volcanic eruption or meteorite“. More at the LA Times.
The report cites the tsunami that struck US Samoa last year, where the warning was only given eight minutes prior. Therefore people will need to know how to recognise the signs of a tsunami, or the possibility for one, so they can act independently of any official warnings. For example, if you feel an earthquake, get away from the coastline. While the odds of it creating a tsunami might be low, better to be safe than sorry.
Something else to keep in mind is that a tsunami can be a …
Asteroid Tsunamis Not So Bad After All?
A new computer simulation has determined that if a 200 metre wide asteroid lands in the ocean, where the water depth is 5 kilometres, the following will occur:
Initial tsunami with a height of hundreds of metres
The height of the waves makes them prone to collapse, and they start breaking immediately
After they are 30 kilometres from the impact site, they have shrunk to a height of less than 60 metres
Extrapolating the shrinkage suggests a height of less than 10 metres after it has travelled 1000 kilometres
Ultimately, how close to the shore the impact is would make a big difference…
Although 10 metres would ordinarily mean massive devastation, apparently the wavelength would be shorter (2 minutes), and therefore not as damaging as regular tsunamis (8 minutes). The results of another simulation “suggest much slower wave decay”, ie worse.
The article concludes with something we all, perhaps, should keep in the back of our mind:
Brian …
Tsunami Not Finished
The tsunami of 2004 that killed over 200,000 people, as bad as it was, could’ve been much worse, and might be one day.
According to Scientific American,
Evidently, the 2007 events released only a quarter of the stress trapped within. The teams report in the December 4 Nature and the December 12 Science that another tsunami-unleashing earthquake could occur there at any time.
Ironically, aligning with Velikovsky, and his “cultural amnesia”, those of us who only witnessed this on the TV news, have almost forgotten it happened, a mere 4 years later. This is to me the crux of the problem, when trying to engage folk with the idea of a global cataclysm. Nope, won’t happen, not us.
Science is powerful, but is weak compared to experience. One million people dying in a tsunami somewhere else, is not as powerful as being without email for a week here and now.
