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A survivor of the tsunami has written a riveting andinspiring firsthand account of the tragedy that we areposting as an “Insight” article on Unknowncountry. “I lookedout and sawthe ocean suck out and this wave started to form a couple ofhundredfeet out and it just got bigger and bigger. My heart stoppedand I stoodthere saying Oh My God!

The locals who had all been stunned and confused, as theyhad never seenanything like this, looked horrified and so did we. We allstartedscreaming run! run!” To read more,click here.

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The 9.0 mega-earthquake that struck the Indian Ocean Sundayhas caused the entire planet to begin vibrating. EnzoBoschi, the head of Italy’s National Geophysics Institutestated on Italian television on Sunday evening that “all theplanet is vibrating” because of the quake, and that it haddisturbed the planet’s rotation.

This is the fifth largest earthquake in recorded history,and little is known about the planetary effects of suchtremors. The last one, a 9.2 quake that struck PrinceWilliam Sound in Alaska in 1964, did not result in anymeasured planet-wide effects beyond the quake itself.
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Tens of millions of people along the east coast of the U.S.and Canada may drown if a volcano off north Africa slidesinto the sea. Some time in the next few thousand years, theCumbre Vieja volcano on the Canary Island of La Palma willcollapse, sending a 300 foot high tsunami across theAtlantic.

The collapse began when the volcano erupted in 1949. Iterupts every 25 to 200 years. The last eruption was in 1971;before that, the previous eruption was in 1712.

Scientist Bill McGuire says we’ll have seven to ten hourswarning after the volcano crashes. The tsunami would hitnearby islands within an hour and reach the north Africancoast within two hours. We could have more than a day’swarning if we were watching for signs that the volcano wasabout to erupt.
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Geologists have learned that there’s a huge earthquake zone in the Seattle area. They discovered this from studying a huge tsunami that hit Japan in the 17th century, triggered by an earthquake in the Pacific Northwest.

In wired.com, Leander Kahney quotes Brian Atwater of the U.S. Geological Survey as saying, “This region has the potential for truly enormous earthquakes.” His research shows that a magnitude-9 quake that occurred on January 26, 1700 sent a 15-foot tsunami into Japan about 14 hours later. In the U.S., there are Native American legends about the quake, while in Japan, it was well documented.
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