Tsunami risk of asteroid strikes revealed


	Tsunami risk of asteroid strikes revealed

amgumen

5-7-2007 10:20 PM

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5-7-2007 10:21 PM

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5-8-2007 2:09 AM

The REAL Napster

and when one actually hits all of mankinds former problems will seem so very small. Its not a matter of if, but a matter of when.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e11f7f51-59f6-4ff4-adf0-bd0776775f73/6BFDAEB3-5B13-4F14-9DA2-4D25889026F1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9160-tsunami-risks-through-asteroid-strikes-revealed.html" href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9160-tsunami-risks-through-asteroid-strikes-revealed.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9160-tsunami-risks-through-asteroid-strikes-revealed.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.newscientist.com/img/C86316D4-6833-4C42-A88B-C55092D76FBF" alt="The researchers modelled the asteroid impact believed to have led to the demise of the dinosaurs – this frame shows tsunami wave heights 4 hours after the impact of the 10-kilomtre-wide asteroid (Image: Steve Ward)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9160-tsunami-risks-through-asteroid-strikes-revealed.html">Tsunamis triggered by asteroid impacts cause a disaster similar to the 2004 Asian tsunami once every 6000 years on average, according to the first detailed analysis of their effects.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9160-tsunami-risks-through-asteroid-strikes-revealed.html">Researchers have assumed that tsunamis would make ocean impacts more deadly than those on land</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9160-tsunami-risks-through-asteroid-strikes-revealed.html">The pair first calculated the chance of various size asteroids reaching the Earth's surface, and then modelled the tsunamis that would result for asteroids that hit the oceans.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9160-tsunami-risks-through-asteroid-strikes-revealed.html">For example, the model shows that waves radiating from the impact of a 300-metre-wide asteroid would carry 300 times more energy than the 2004 Asian tsunami. You can view movies of impact simulations in the <A target="ns" href="http://es.ucsc.edu/~ward/1950-DA(5).mov">North Atlantic</A>, <A target="ns" href="http://es.ucsc.edu/~ward/eltanin_small.mov">South Pacific</A>, <A target="ns" href="http://es.ucsc.edu/~ward/2004MN4(b).mov">Gulf of Mexico</A> and <A target="ns" href="http://es.ucsc.edu/~ward/2004MN4(a).mov">Pacific</A> (all in .mov format).</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6BFDAEB3-5B13-4F14-9DA2-4D25889026F1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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