Blaze Spinnaker <[email protected]> wrote: Another tsunami could come up and dredge all that out to the ocean and > currents will drag it over to the west coast of NA. >
No, that is not possible. A tsunami does not dredge the ocean. You can see what it does in the many videos taken of the disaster. A wave, by definition, does not drag on the bottom of the ocean, or disturb it. The water moves up, and then down. There is no back-and-forth motion in a wave. If it did drag, the energy from the wave would soon be dissipated and the wave would vanish. The energy is released when the wave reaches a shallow. That is why the wave then stops moving, rather than crossing the entire continent. Even if the radioactive debris in the shallows is moved by the passing wave, it would fall right back to the bottom again. Or it would be washed ashore, I suppose. It is not going to be transported to the West Coast of North America. Some floating debris did reach the West Coast. If radioactive debris floats, it would be everywhere in the ocean already. > Tsunami is a japanese word for a reason. > Yes. The reason is that the older English word, "tidal wave," is technically inaccurate. It has nothing to do with the tide. The Japanese word is 津波. The first character means "port, harbor." The second is "wave." In other words, a wave that reaches into the harbor or anchorage. - Jed
