Hi Ronald, Thanks for the info! The documentary I saw was on Lituya Bay, I didn't remember the name at the time though. Being a seismologist sounds very interesting. Apart from those people they interview on tv documentaries, I can't say I've ever met one. Have you ever gone out of your way to witness an earthquake or a volcanic eruption first hand?
Cheers, Ryan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronald Arvidsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 5:00 AM Subject: Re: PESO: Djupvasshytta > Hi, > > Being a seismologist (having taught this stuff) I think youre views are > stimulating. Therefore I would like to add some stuff here. You are > thinking of fjord-tsunamis and there is a special example in Alaska, the > Lituya bay, about 240 km north of Sitka in Alaska, where landslides > causes waves to splash up to 500m in height on the other side. There is > also a modern case from Norway!!! which was the most disastrous tsunami > like thing in northwestern Europe in modern history. These tsunamis are > although high only dangerous in the near vicinity as opposed to > earthquake induced tsunamis which may hit half a globe away. > > The other two BIG sources for tsunamis - apart from earthquakes - are > deep water landslides ( also known from Norway some 6500 years ago) and > collapse of volcanoes Krakatoa 19th century San Torini (Greece) 1500 BC > which are as bad as the Indonesian earthquake. My appology for writing > this is that I'm a Pentaxian. > > Cheers, > > Ronald > > Ryan Lee > Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:59:09 -0800 > > Bedo, > > That's a great shot. It reminds me of a documentary I watched on > megatsunamis, hundreds of metres high. Considering the recent catastrophic > tsunami was not even close to that, the trailer caught my attention and I > had to watch it. It turns out that the rare phenomenon is caused by massive > landslides into specifically featured lakes. It was quite frightening how > high they got (they cut down trees to inspect the rings to find out). > > Anyway, your picture looks just like the scene they were researching.. > > Cheers, > Ryan > >
