Following on today's Risk: "Here’s What to Know About Japan’s Mega Quake Advisory".
From the University of Southern California via PhysOrg, May 26, 2022:
USC researchers found that large earthquake-generated tsunamis emerge after horizontal oceanic water movement.
The 2004 Sumatra earthquake generated one of the most destructive tsunamis ever recorded, with 100-foot waves that killed nearly 230,000 and resulted in an estimated $10 billion in damage. It also ushered in a new understanding that potent tsunamis are triggered by shallow earthquake ruptures of underwater fault lines. Future tsunamis are likely to be just as severe, if not worse, potentially killing even more people and wiping out whole communities. Although current research points to rupture depth as a key factor in predicting tsunami severity, those models fail to explain why large tsunamis still occur following relatively small earthquakes....
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Following on 2011's Fukushima (TÅhoku) earthquake (magnitude 9.0 - 9.1) and tsunami (up to 40.5 meter/133 foot high wave) which killed almost 20,000 people and left another 2500+ missing, Germany decided to shut-down all their nuclear power plants.
You can never be too careful bordering the Baltic Sea.
And just east* of the geographical center of the North American continent, July 30, 2025:
National Weather Service: "There is no threat for tsunami impacts in North Dakota."
From the NWS:
There is no threat for tsunami impacts in North Dakota.
— NWS Grand Forks (@NWSGrandForks) July 30, 2025
If you are in a coastal area under threat however check https://t.co/7YxvShRdZr for up to date information and with local officials for any evacuation orders https://t.co/ycz4sXnZmE
*New Calculations Reposition the Geographical Center of North America
After an 90-year-reign, the title moves from Rugby, North Dakota, to the city of Center, in Oliver County
Fortuitously, the town (pop. 600) had been named Center in the early 1900's because it was located in the center of the county of which it is the county seat.
