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RE: Deep Dives 9 | Project Seal and Tsunami Bombs | Part I
Superb report! I have long been interested in slide generated tsunamis, and in my homeland of Alaska the highest tsunami ever documented occurred in Lituya Bay, over 1700 feet high, caused by a landslide triggered by a quake in 1958. There are various geological formations that are both particularly susceptible to slides, and that would likely generate devastating tsunamis were they triggered. The Azores, the Canaries, particularly La Palma, could do unimaginable damage to the East Coast of the US were such to happen.
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I can't even imagine what a 1700 ft tsunami would look like or how much damage that could inflict on a coastline! The awesome destructive power of water/waves/oceans is hard to comprehend, at least until we saw the 2004 and 2011 tsunamis impact on Banda Aceh and Japan. I will certainly be looking at these types of natural disasters with fresh eyes in the future.
An interesting and instructive geological feature of N. America is the 'badlands', carved by the immense floods at the end of the last Ice Age.
Consider what a few nukes might do to extant ice, and have a look at the ripples left across the Western USA through the Columbia River Gorge.
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