[meteorite-list] OT: Videos Tell The Earthquake, Tsunami Story

[Paul H.]

YouTube Videos Tell The Earthquake, Tsunami Story
National Public Radio, March 11, 2011, 
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2011/03/12/134464888/youtube-videos-tell-the-earthquake-tsunami-story

Earthquake in Japan, YouTube, Citizen's Channel
http://www.youtube.com/citizentube#g/c/0870831CE43351E1

More of the latest videos from Japan's devastating earthquake
Vancouver Sun, March 11, 2011
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/More+latest+videos+from+Japan+devastating+earthquake/4425033/story.html

Japan earthquake: CCTV video of tsunami wave hitting
Sendai airport, RussiaToday, 
http://www.youtube.com/citizentube#p/c/1/-DSSssHxm4Y

These are a heartbreaking and tragic preview of what will 
eventually happen to the northwest coast of the United 
States and west coast of Canada. It happened in 1700 and
other times in prehistory to these areas and will occur again.

The January, 1700 Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake 
and tsunami, The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network
http://www.pnsn.org/HAZARDS/CASCADIA/cascadia_event.html

1700 Cascadia earthquake, Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1700_Cascadia_earthquake

Atwater, B. F., M.-R. Satoko, S. Kenji, T. Yoshinobu, 
U. Kazue, and D. K. Yamaguchi, 2007, The Orphan 
Tsunami of 1700—Japanese Clues to a Parent 
Earthquake in North America. Professional Paper 
no. 1707, United States Geological Survey, Reston,
Virginia.

PDF file (116 MB) downloadable from:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1707/pp1707.pdf

Yours,

Paul

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)