The Effects of the 2004 Sumatra Earthquake/Tsunami

The 2004 Sumatra earthquake set of a massive tsunami that can be seen to the right in this wonderful computer simulation available on wikimedia commons. The important thing that I want to stress here is how far the tsunami reaches.

The Cascadia subduction zone on the Pacific Northwest is very close to Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, and in fact most of the Northwest coast all the way down to North California. All of this can expect to be effected not just by the eventual earthquake itself, but by the resulting tsunami, liquefaction, rockslides, and incidental fires and power outages.

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