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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (57728)	12/29/2004 2:22:18 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

>>Incredible? Hardly.<< Ray, lets not downplay this catastrophe. They haven't finished counting the bodies yet.

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (57728)	12/29/2004 3:08:29 AM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Hi Ray - I note that your link has 3,000 dead for the 1906 San Franciso quake. Guess they don't count the fire... A number of historians believe the actual total was much higher, well over 10,000 - and surpressed to avoid hurting the investment in California. Anyway, the number is pretty incredible and sad to me.

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (57728)	12/29/2004 3:44:55 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 74559

Re: Yet, the U.S. military remains one of the most potent means of eliminating population on the planet. So true.... *Could Nuclear testing create a tsunami?* This is a difficult topic to research, because much of the information surrounding nuclear testing is classified. During the Cold War there was fear of tsunamis produced by the detonation of nuclear bombs on the continental shelf off the East Coast of the US. A nuclear bomb was never detonated on the shelf, however a huge explosion did generate a tsunami during World War I. Any large disturbance that displaces a large volume of water can be a potential cause of a tsunami. 216.239.59.104

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (57728)	12/29/2004 4:57:09 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<This will be the highest death toll ever for a tsunami event.> I doubt that records are very good from 500 years ago, and longer, around the Pacific Ocean. A real tsunami would kill hundreds of millions around the Pacific Ocean. It will happen. Maybe we'll hear less about the problems of a greenhouse effect induced sea level rise over 50 years of a metre or two now that people understand that sea level rises can occur in seconds, not centuries. Mqurice