Seattle P-I: Signs of tsunami emerging after all

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/218263_tsunami31.html?dpfrom=thead

Thursday, March 31, 2005
By TOM PAULSON
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

A tsunami estimated at nearly half the size of the one that hit Thailand on Dec. 26 was produced in some areas along the northwestern coast of Indonesia following Monday's 8.7-magnitude earthquake, according to a team of scientists that arrived on the scene yesterday.

The new findings appear to confirm the suspicions of many Seattle scientists, tsunami experts as well as seismologists, who earlier this week said such a large quake almost certainly produced a tsunami. The geologic turmoil in Sumatra is of high interest to local researchers because of the Pacific Northwest's prehistory of such quakes and tsunamis.

"We're getting reports of about four meters (13 feet) in certain areas," said Bruce Jaffe, a U.S. Geological Survey tsunami expert in Santa Cruz, Calif., who is coordinating an international scientific team that arrived in Sumatra yesterday.

... But the scientists in Indonesia are learning from local officials and others that there was a tsunami -- smaller than the last one but large enough to tear down buildings and kill anyone still living near the shoreline after the Dec. 26 tsunami that killed more than 126,000 on Sumatra and left about a half a million homeless.

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1. I've been concerned

it would go east and south this time...hitting where these reports mention...and the Antarctic.

Lot of ocean to cross, so a lot of the 'energy' would be lost...but a hit on Antarctica....