[ExI] Tsunami height)

[Ryan Rawson]

But that was a special bay geography, typically one would not see that.
On Mar 25, 2011 1:43 PM, "John Clark" <jonkc at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On Mar 25, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Keith Henson wrote:
>
>> That's 77 feet, 5 inches. Or, about the height of a six- or
>> seven-story building. It wasn't a record, though. Kyodo says that:
>>
>> "The tsunami wave measured in the city of Ofunato was lower than the
>> domestic record of 38.2 meters [125 feet. 4 inches] marked in the 1896
>> Meiji Sanriku Earthquake Tsunami, and 34.9 meters [114 feet, 6 inches]
>> logged in the wake of the 2004 earthquake off the Indonesian coast of
>> Sumatra."
>
> That's not a record either, the record for the tallest tsunami ever
recorded is 524 meters (1,724 feet) at Lituya Bay Alaska on July 9 1958.
>
> John K Clark
>
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