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Alaska 6 inch tsunami - seriously?
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Alaska 6 inch tsunami - seriously?

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RichKeller - 1/06/2013 8:49 AM
A 6" tsunami wave at sea could be miles wide from front to back, moving water very deep and traveling at 600 miles per hour. This is big enough to be picked up by our Sosus submarine detection system. At sea you might not even notice this thing unless you were under the water but once the wave gets to the shallows the front of the wave slows down and at 600 MPH the back catches up quickly.
Eric_R - 1/05/2013 5:22 PM
You have to know the mechanics behind a tsunami. The energy from waves on the ocean from the wind are only at the surface so a 6 inch wave won’t get much bigger when it comes to shore and breaks. A wave developing from a tsunami is in the whole water column. If this water column is of great depth then it magnifies the height of the wave as it slows down coming into shallower water near shore. That energy has to go some where so the wave grows where a barely noticeable wave in the middle of the ocean could reach several meters when it comes ashore.
Eve - 1/05/2013 8:59 AM
They actually spelled it out , they just did not make a mistake with the marks being one or two of them, does inches and the word tsunami even go with each other. If so then us off the coast of NC have tsunami’s dai;y with our waves coming in!
LatitudeAdjustment - 1/05/2013 8:11 AM
When I saw that on SlashDot news I wondered how they could tell that 6" was the Tsunami and not the wake from a passing dingy. I get bigger waves than that in the waterbed!
Greg - 1/05/2013 7:30 AM
Fellas, I guess we can tell our wives "Watch out, because you’re about to experience a tsunami". Sorry, I just couldn’t resist :)
Eve - 1/05/2013 8:55 AM
wow, are you sure you wanted to advertise that?