Tsunami researchers find bigger seafloor shifts

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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Scientists who studied the seafloor near Sumatra with remotely operated vehicles after a tsunami devastated the Indonesian island last year said on Tuesday they found parts displaced by up to 12 meters (39 feet), nearly twice as much as they had expected.

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"Communities in Oregon and Washington have been anticipating waves of only 10 to 12 meters or so, but now they need to be even better prepared," Grilli said, pointing to the potential for much bigger waves.

Grilli, at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union, noted that if a 9.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the coasts of Oregon and Washington, the level of the quake that triggered the tsunami, parts of the coastlines of the two states could be hit by waves up to 30 meters (98 feet) high, or three times more than predicted previously.

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[RazzleDazzle]

1. NINETY-EIGHT FEET?

Holy cow. There are large parts of the Oregon Coast, incredibly beautiful coast, that are cliffs with a little strip of sand and/or rock beach at the bottom. I don't think they're 100 feet high.

Holy cow.

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2. holy cow is right.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

3. It's going to happen.

It might be tomorrow, or it might be 300 years from now, but it's inevitable.