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Five Years After Deadly Indonesian Tsunami, is Pacific Northwest Any Safer?

Mitch Battros - Earth Changes Media

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Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 4:57 AM

Subject: Five Years After Deadly Indonesian Tsunami, is Pacific Northwest Any Safer?

It has been five years since a devastating tsunami hit Indonesia on Dec. 26, 2004, killing more than 225,000 people. In the interim, the U.S. has significantly expanded its tsunami detection capabilities and broadened municipal awareness of this natural disaster. However, few consumers have the knowledge and emergency supplies they need should a tsunami hit the U.S. mainland, according to the government officials.

WARNING: Photo is extremely graphic, but warrants display to remind the public how devastating a tsunami can be. CLICK HERE (then click on photo to expand)

An area along the US Northwest Coast that runs from Northern California, across Oregon, Washington State, Vancouver BC, and up to Alaska is known as the Cascadia Subduction Zone. It has a history of producing mega-quakes. The last one occurred 300 years ago measuring between a 9.0 -9.5 magnitude. A tsunami surged all the way across the Pacific wiping out part of Japan. The exact number of dead is unknown, but it was in the hundreds, perhaps thousands.

Shortly following a strong 8.0 - 9.0 + magnitude earthquake, a tsunami sends huge ocean waves hurtling toward coastal communities. Perhaps even more dangerous is the "surge" which is most often created by such events. Americans need look back no farther than September 2009 to find a tsunami that adversely impacted a U.S. territory. American Samoa, situated in the Pacific Ocean, was hit almost three months ago by a tsunami that caused 34 deaths. The disaster was triggered by an 8.0 magnitude earthquake centered about 120 miles south of the Samoan Islands.

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Philippine 'Mayon' Volcano - in Photos

from Mitch Battros - Earth Changes Media

You will see an extraordinary set of photos which shows the natural power of nature as magma builds higher in the cone. Soon the pressure from the sulfuric gasses will assist in an explosion sending ash several miles into the sky. Often, as with Mount St. Helens, the mountain itself explodes sending debris miles away.