Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Earthquakes / January 2005

I have read that the effects of Krakatoa were measured by a rise in the
level of the English channel - though apparently this may have been caused
by the atmospheric displacement the eruption may have caused.
Has there been a measurable effect on the sea level around the British ...

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=596802
By Justin Huggler in Port Blair, Andaman Islands
30 December 2004
An official of the Indian civil service was hacking his way through dense jungle

I keep hearing reports on how expensive it would be to set up a tsunami
warning system for the Indian Ocean.
What is really involved? Where does the cost come from? I realize these
are cosmic questions, but I'm very interested (my home town of Chennai

Fortunately, it was about 150 miles from land.

No, George, I haven't read your replies to my post, because if you answered
any of my questions I'd be pleasantly astonished, and I haven't got time to
argue with the likes of you.
Most ot what I'm finding on the Burma microplate is confusion.   Someone

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-12/uoo-gco122804.php
Records show an equivalent event on the Oregon coast occurred in 1700
EUGENE, Ore.--Earthquake-caused tsunamis as severe as those that swept southeast
Asia on Sunday have happened in the past off the Oregon coast, ...

US govt fails expats in Tsunami zone
http://tinyurl.com/6m2nc
Or,
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102
x1106253

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Nice article.  A little bit about who was in the trenches and their
responses.  It puts a few things in better perspective.