active fault-line could cause Japan-style tsunami that could devastate California and Hawaii
The remnants of Fukashima event #1 last year may yet irradiate thousands in North America. And if that was not bad enough... are you ready for Fukashima event #2??
- Fault-line last ruptured in 1788 and measurements show pressure is increasing on weak points
- Area is geographically-similar to the fault-line which led to Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami of 2011
- A tsunami could race down West coast of the U.S. and hit the Hawaiian Islands
By
Eddie Wrenn
Scientists say a fault-line running
across Alaska could cause tsunamis of the same magnitude as the Japanese
disaster of March last year.
Attention
has turned to the Alaskan-Aleutian subduction zone, a region where one
of the earth's tectonic plate, carrying the Pacific Ocean, drops beneath
the North American plate.
A
particular section of the fault near the Semidi Islands has not
ruptured since at least 1788, and measurements on this area - which lies
four to five kilometers under water - reveal the pressure is
accumulating rapidly.
If the
Pacific Ocean plate slips, as happened in the geographically-similar
Tohoku subduction zone off the coast of Japan, a tsunami could occur -
and the deaths could happen as far away as Hawaii and California.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2145312/Scientists-turn-Alaska-fears-active-fault-line-cause-Japan-style-tsunami-devastate-California-Hawaii.html
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