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Re: [v6z] Re: New tsunami advisory warning - Japan
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Franck Martin)
Sun Mar 27 23:03:48 2011
From: Franck Martin <fmartin@linkedin.com>
To: Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au>, andrew.wallace
<andrew.wallace@rocketmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 03:05:29 +0000
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Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
And then you can have lens effects, where the waves reflections on the
coast, focus unto a point on the coastline.
On 3/28/11 14:34 , "Scott Howard" <scott@doc.net.au> wrote:
>On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 6:28 PM, andrew.wallace <
>andrew.wallace@rocketmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:59 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
>> > *yawn*. A foot and a half isn't going to be all *that* bad
>>
>> Remember a wall of tsunami water travels in general at approx 970 kph
>>(600
>> mph), think about it.
>>
>
>That's in deep water, where the height of the wave might be a few inches
>at
>most.
>
>Once it reaches shallow water the speed drops significantly and the height
>increases.
>
> Scott
