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The Orphan Tsunami of 1700: Japanese Clues to a Parent Earthquake in North America
The Orphan Tsunami of 1700 Japanese Clues to a Parent Earthquake in North America
Author: Brian F. Atwater
The outside world scarcely knew of northwestern North America in the year 1700. The Pacific coast, from southcentral Alaska to Oregon's Cape Blanco, was uncharted until the Spanish and English explorations of the 1770s. Yet, when tectonic plates suddenly shifted there in 1700, a train of ocean waves -- a tsunami -- sped across the Pacific Ocean....  more »
ISBN-13: 9780295985350
ISBN-10: 0295985356
Publication Date: 12/30/2005
Pages: 133
Edition: Bilingual
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Publisher: University of Washington Press / U.S. Geological Survey
Book Type: Paperback
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