Comment by Dazzler5648
6 days ago
I was parked at Selzer beach in Seaside, Oregon when the earthquake/tsunami news hit around 7:30pm. Within 30 minutes it was impossible to buy gas without queueing and now there is a pretty steady stream of cars heading out of town. As of 9pm it’s been upgraded to a warning up and down the coast. I was just thinking of tsunamis the two days ago in the Del Rey beach parking lot, where I noticed the locals seemed to park at the exit end of the lot, facing out. I moved my car to match because that just makes sense.
I’ve never thought about a tsunami when visiting the beach in my life. Are they much more common in the Pacific? We go to the Gulf and Atlantic and it’s never something I think about. We usually go in June/July, so we don’t worry much about hurricanes either.
There is no Atlantic ring of fire, is there. What little places like Iceland show is nothing compared to what pacific has to offer in much larger area.
While the Atlantic doesn't really have many faults that will generate earthquakes causing tsunamis there is always a risk of landslides creating large tsunamis up to what we'd consider mega-tsunamis. This said this is something that may have thousands of years between incidents.