The Next Tsunami: Living on a Restless Coast

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The Next Tsunami The Next Tsunami Living on a Restless Coast Bonnie Henderson Oregon State University Press • Corvallis The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources and the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Henderson, Bonnie, author. The next tsunami : living on a restless coast / Bonnie Henderson. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-87071-732-1 (alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-0-87071-733-8 (e-book) 1. Tsunamis--Pacific Coast (America) 2. Tsunami hazard zones--Pacific Coast (America) I. Title. GC220.4.P37.H46 2014 363.34’940979509146--dc23 2013040039© 2014 Bonnie Henderson All rights reserved. First published in 2014 by Oregon State University Press Printed in the United States of America Oregon State University Press 121 The Valley Library Corvallis OR 97331-4501 541-737-3166 • fax 541-737-3170 www.osupress.oregonstate.edu This is a work of nonfiction. Conversations not witnessed by the author have been reconstructed with the collaboration and approval of those participants still living. Seismologists use a variety of scales to characterize the relative size of an earthquake, including the local magnitude or Richter scale, developed in the 1930s, and the surface wave magnitude scale. The United States Geological Society now uses the moment magnitude scale, developed in the 1970s, to estimate all modern large earthquakes. Unless noted, mention of earthquake magnitude in this work is based on the moment magnitude scale. ...