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"It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape."

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Thursday, 4 December 2003

Topic: Local Issues

First the fires, and now this? Even the French are worried about things out here!

So I'm glancing at the summary of the French press at RFI - Internet Press Review in English - and Michael Fitzpatrick in his daily review of what's in the papers there tells me this:
Just in case Californians thought the worst was over, now that Terminator has made it to the State House, there's serious bad news on the Science pages of today's LE FIGARO. The home of Hollywood is not simply threatened by bad acting and big earthquakes, California also faces the threat of being engulfed by a monstrous tidal wave.

According to new research by a team of geophysicists, the gradual grinding at the meeting-point of the American and Pacific Plates... those enormous chunks of the earth's crust which move past one another at the rate of three-and-a-half centimetres each year... is sometimes interrupted by a massive collapse which causes undersea earthquakes and sends out waves of up to five metres, travelling at around 850 kilometres per hour.
Damn.

Things are tough enough. It's not just bad acting and big earthquakes out here.

So I look it up.

L'histoire d'une vague g?ante qui d?ferla de l'Am?rique au Japon
Yves Miserey, Le Figaro 04 d?cembre 2003
La faille San Andreas qui traverse San Francisco n'est pas la seule menace sismique pesant sur l'ouest des Etats-Unis. Tout le long de la c?te californienne jusqu'? la Colombie britannique (Canada), la plaque oc?anique Juan de Fuca glisse et descend sous la plaque continentale am?ricaine, ? raison de plus de 3,6 cm par an. L?-bas, chaque rupture brutale de la cro?te peut provoquer de redoutables tsunamis (1) car cette zone de subduction est situ?e sous la mer. Les vagues g?antes sont un danger pour toutes les r?gions c?ti?res du Pacifique. C'est ainsi que le 27 mars 1964, un tsunami provoqu? par un tremblement de terre au large de l'Alaska traversa l'oc?an Pacifique ? la vitesse de 830 km/h, atteignant les bords de l'Antarctique seize heures plus tard et faisant au passage 130 morts en Am?rique du Nord. [ and so on... ]
And I suppose I'll see this in the Los Angeles Times tomorrow.

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