On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 6:28 PM, andrew.wallace < andrew.wall...@rocketmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:59 AM, <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> wrote: > > *yawn*. A foot and a half isn't going to be all *that* bad > > Remember a wall of tsunami water travels in general at approx 970 kph (600 > mph), think about it. > That's in deep water, where the height of the wave might be a few inches at most. Once it reaches shallow water the speed drops significantly and the height increases. Scott