From: Jeff Shultz 

And now I see the sub-head about it being a reprint from 1996. That makes a
lot more sense.

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:16:15 -0800, Jeff Shultz wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 19:45:53 -0500, Steve Ewing wrote:
>
>>  From the Discover mag archives.
>>
>> http://www.discover.com/web-exclusives/the-tsunami-of-1700/
>
> I've excavated core samples from it as part of a geology class. Believe
> me, it's never far from my mind.
>
> I don't know where they are coming up with "This past year Kenji Satake
> of the Geological Survey of Japan reported that he'd figured out why:
> the Japanese tsunami of 1700, he said, was but a faint signal from a
> giant earthquake that occurred ten hours earlier and 5,000 miles away in
> the Pacific Northwest" though - we knew about this, as students, in
> 2000.

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