Hi All. Every now and then I find something that grabs my attention. I found the article below that at first appeared to be factual. What I first envisioned was a very large tsunami striking the West Coast. I read it again to insure that what I was reading was correct. Then it struck me. It was moving at the rate of 2.8 inches per second. That is 14 feet per minute. There was no way I was going to buy that so I went digging.

What I found was the complete article and why, or how it may have been written the way it was in the Oshkosh Northwestern.

Gerard Fryer is an Associate Geophysicist in the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics
& Planetology, a unit within the School of Ocean & Earth Science & Technology has set the record straight. Take Care…Don in creepy town

"This article appeared March 24, 1997 in The Oshkosh Northwestern. Is this information correct?"

"Geologists are monitoring anxiously a huge chunk of Hawaiian mountainside -- 12 miles long, 6 miles wide and 5.4 miles deep--which is creeping out to sea at a rate of 2.8 inches a second.

There's a remote risk that the Kilauea volcano, one of the most active in the world, will slump into the ocean, triggering a gigantic tsunami, a wave up to 990 feet high, which could devastate coastlines around the Pacific from California to Australia.

Although no tsunami on that scale has been recorded during historic times, there is scientific evidence for mega-slumps and gigantic tsunamis in the Pacific within the past 100,000 years.

Sonar images of the ocean floor show landslides involving hundreds of square miles of rock. And geologists have found deposits of crushed coral, lumps of pumice stone and other wave-borne debris up to 1,000 feet above sea level in Hawaii, Australia and New Zealand, which they say, could only have been carried there by a tsunami.

Kilauea is bristling with high-tech monitoring equipment installed by geologists to detect changes in the shape of the mountain. The idea is to give advance warning of hazardous volcanic activity from new eruptions of gas and lava to catastrophic landslides."

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