Re: [Phys-L] earthquakes, tsunamis, and defensive measures -- physics in real life

[brian whatcott <betwys1@sbcglobal.net>]

I am a connoisseur of Bernard's posts: a certain compaction, bordering 
at times on telegraphese; a new light on a topic at hand.
 Here it was not Bernard's prose that most tantalized, but rather the 
dramatic introduction, and lucid development of a feature in a weekly 
paper. How can a 'little country paper' be so commanding?
So I checked the population numbers for Monterey County and surprised 
myself with the result: more than 400,000 souls. The map showed more of 
the story - a Gold Coast off Silicon Valley replete with coiners of 
words like 'turbidite' (for a sedimentary fan in the offshore gravity 
flux of a river system tumbling off a shelf to the depths) and at least 
one USGS paper replete with an author list of twelve, like the 
'industrial-grade' cite of JDs, vividly describing subterranean river 
canyons all quite filled with the dross of estuarine transport and 
epically failing to evoke the dry, dusty prototype of such works.

Brian W


On 12/3/2018 2:15 AM, bernard cleyet wrote /in part/:
> And here’s an article:  [1]
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> http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/news/local_news/storms-tsunamis-watery-death-could-it-happen-here/article_27ceba85-0114-534b-a588-241be3db1022.html
>
> Note the extensive discussion on the non-quake tsunamis.   And not very effective warning.
>
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> bc
>
>
> [1] The ward link is incomplete;   copy all instead of opening the link.
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