At 05:28 PM 5/27/2003 -0500, you wrote:
<<http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/press_releases/text.asp?pid=355>>
May 27, 2003 Contact: Tim Stephens (831) 459-2495; [EMAIL PROTECTED] UC Santa Cruz Press Release
Massive tsunami sweeps Atlantic Coast in asteroid impact scenario for March 16, 2880
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SANTA CRUZ, CA--If an asteroid crashes into the Earth, it is likely to splash down somewhere in the oceans that cover 70 percent of the planet's surface. Huge tsunami waves, spreading out from the impact site like the ripples from a rock tossed into a pond, would inundate heavily populated coastal areas. A computer simulation of an asteroid impact tsunami developed by scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, shows waves as high as 400 feet sweeping onto the Atlantic Coast of the United States.
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Computer simulations not only give scientists a better handle on the potential hazards of asteroid impacts, they can also help researchers interpret the geologic evidence of past events, Ward said. Geologists have found evidence of past asteroid impact tsunamis in the form of inland sediment deposits and disturbed sediment layers in the seafloor that correlate with craters, meteorite fragments, and other impact evidence. An important feature of Ward's simulation is that it enabled him to calculate the speed of the water flows created by the tsunami at the bottom of the ocean--more than 3 feet per second out to distances of several hundred miles from the impact.
Splat Maru
What I want to know is: How far inland will a 400 foot wave cause destruction? I don't think Deep Impact was a bad movie, near the end after the hit, they used awful animation to show the waves lapping up the eastern seaboard hills. Just wondering.
Well, I'm about 760 feet above sea level here . . .
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