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Thursday, December 30, 2004

IT COULD HAPPEN HERE: S.F. coastline susceptible to huge quake-triggered waves

IT COULD HAPPEN HERE: S.F. coastline susceptible to huge quake-triggered waves:

"If a magnitude 9.0 shallow earthquake struck the Pacific Northwest today, it 'would most probably generate a large local tsunami that would attack Oregon, Washington, (California and Canada) within minutes to an hour,' said a leading tsunami scientist, Laura Kong, of UNESCO's International Tsunami Information Centre in Honolulu. "

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