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Hurricanes could cause tsunami threat

Shifting of ocean sediments could trigger undersea landslides.

Hurricanes whip up gigantic waves at sea, but it seems they could also cause even more dangerous monsters to crash into shore.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on April 20, 2006 02:05 PM |

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Those recent gulf coast storms in the south and east may be mimics of the ancient storms mentioned the article. On the west coast; landslides on the coast and flooding has brought significant sediment deposits in to the ocean. So the next big tsunamis might be at the front door and go unnoticed because its not sesimic related from fault movement. An undersea landslide from constant sediments deposits from recent storms may go undetected on sesmic graphs until it actually happens. Instead of volcano or earthquake signels you sometimes hear about when predeicting eruptions and earthquakes.

Posted by: Eugene Caruso | April 20, 2006 08:14 PM

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