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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (57684)	12/28/2004 12:41:34 PM
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Speaking of mega-tsunamis, have you read about the "silent earthquake" in Hawaii? --- Stanford Report, February 28, 2002 Silent earthquake in Hawaii offers clues to early detection of tsunamis BY MARK SHWARTZ A slow-moving earthquake recently observed on Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano could become a model for predicting catastrophic tsunamis in the Pacific, according to a new study by geophysicists from Stanford and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Writing in the journal Nature, the researchers explained how they were able to detect a "silent" or "aseismic" earthquake on Kilauea's southern flank in November 2000 using data from the Stanford/USGS global positioning system (GPS) network on the Big Island of Hawaii. The magnitude 5.7 quake was a relatively slow-moving event that lasted about 36 hours and caused the southern flank of the volcano to slide nearly 3.5 inches (8.7 centimeters) into the sea. news-service.stanford.edu --- If (when?) Kilauea's southern flank shears off into the ocean, the result might be a fantastically towering, landslide-generated "mega." (See Lituya Bay, 1958.)