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Old 02-27-2010, 04:58 PM   #8
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Depends on topography. The '64 Alaska quake produced waves that were generally less than 70 feet, but over 100 ft in Cook Inlet, and further down the coast, a dead end bay was stripped of all the soil and vegetation, for several hundred feet elevation up the sides of the hills. Kansas in safer.
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