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To: abuelita who wrote (52382)	7/17/2009 4:13:18 AM
From: Maurice Winn	3 Recommendations Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 217845

Now you are talking: <a tsunami ... now, that would be a problem. > Chest beating in the presence of earthquakes is easy to do. But tsunamis are something else altogether. Even we real men will panic and head for the hills. Garden variety tsunamis caused by earthquakes and volcanoes are not much worry as they are unlikely to cause more than a few hundred thousand deaths [such as that biggie in Sumatra a few years ago]. But a tsunami from a hefty bolide coming down over the Pacific Ocean is quite a different kettle of fish. Even the puny Tunguska blast would cause quite a depression in the surface of the ocean which would send a high speed wave across the ocean to the coasts of the Pacific Rim. Hordes of people crowd right down to sea level these days, on sand spits all over the place. Hundreds of thousands of people live within 10 metres of sea level in NZ, especially during summer holidays, so there must be hundreds of millions around the Pacific rim waiting for a big splash. It's a question of when, not if. Those on watch for them frequently first notice such hurtling space missiles AFTER they have shot past. My preference is to sleep well above sea level and not too close to potential sudden volcanic activity such as phreatic blasts around Auckland's waterfronts. Mqurice