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The Next Tsunami: Living on a Restless Coast
Bonnie Henderson
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Description for The Next Tsunami: Living on a Restless Coast
Paperback. "The Next Tsunami: Living on a Restless Coast "is the gripping story of the geological discoveriesand the scientists who uncovered themthat signal the imminence of a catastrophic tsunami on the Northwest Coast." Num Pages: 322 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JFFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 514.
On a March evening in 1964, ten-year-old Tom Horning awoke near midnight to find his yard transformed. A tsunami triggered by Alaska’s momentous Good Friday earthquake had wreaked havoc in his Seaside, Oregon, neighborhood. It was, as far as anyone knew, the Pacific Northwest coast’s first-ever tsunami.
More than twenty years passed before geologists discovered that it was neither Seaside’s first nor worst tsunami. In fact, massive tsunamis strike the Pacific coast every few hundred years, triggered not by distant temblors but by huge quakes less than one hundred miles off the Northwest coast. Not until the late 1990s ... Read more
On a March evening in 1964, ten-year-old Tom Horning awoke near midnight to find his yard transformed. A tsunami triggered by Alaska’s momentous Good Friday earthquake had wreaked havoc in his Seaside, Oregon, neighborhood. It was, as far as anyone knew, the Pacific Northwest coast’s first-ever tsunami.
More than twenty years passed before geologists discovered that it was neither Seaside’s first nor worst tsunami. In fact, massive tsunamis strike the Pacific coast every few hundred years, triggered not by distant temblors but by huge quakes less than one hundred miles off the Northwest coast. Not until the late 1990s ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Corvallis, OR, United States
ISBN
9780870717321
SKU
V9780870717321
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About Bonnie Henderson
Journalist Bonnie Henderson is the author of two hiking guidebooks in addition to The Next Tsunami: Living on a Restless Coast and Strand: An Odyssey of Pacific Ocean Debris, which was an Oregon Book Awards finalist and was named one of the Best Books of 2008 by the Seattle Times. She has been a newspaper reporter and editor, an editor ... Read more
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