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| Title: | TSUNAMI OF 1700 |
| Caption: | This output from a computer model of the January 1700 tsunami is based on arrival times at several sites in Japan. The maps show wave height and location 1 hour, 6 hours, and 12 hours after a ~M 9 earthquake occurred on the Cascadia subduction zone. Such an earthquake would produce a fault displacement of around 19 m (60 ft.) over a distance of about 1100 km (680 mi.) from British Columbia south to northern California. (Courtesy of Kenji Satake) |
| Keywords: | tsunamis, oceans, shorelines, shores, coasts, coastlines, waves, floods, flooding, plate tectonics, tectonic plates, convergent boundary, boundaries, trenches, subduction zones |