From: Jeff Shultz 

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 16:17:20 -0800, Ellen K. wrote:

> Today's paper had an article to the effect that any tsunami to hit
> Southern California would have to come from elsewhere, our earthquake
> faults are the wrong kind and too small for creating tidal waves...
> however the Pacific Coast from Northern California to Seattle could
> theoretically experience a local one.
>
> They also mentioned that we had a tsunami here after the Chilean
> earthquake of 1960.  I don't remember it, but I guess that's because I was
> only 12 and if I didn't personally experience anything from it I probably
> didn't even know about it.  By contrast, I remember the 1954 earthquake,
> at least my experience of it, very vividly.
>
When I was stationed at the Presidio of Montery in 1986, we were put on
tsunami warning for some earthquake that had occurred up in Alaska. That
would have probably been in May/June/early July.

Nothing came of it - I think someone later said that the wave height had
been 3ft when it hit.

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