{"id":33814,"date":"2012-12-03T21:54:20","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T02:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=33814"},"modified":"2012-12-03T21:54:20","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T02:54:20","slug":"pacific-basin-at-risk-from-russian-far-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/pacific-basin-at-risk-from-russian-far-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Basin At Risk From Russian Far East"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nCommunism in the Soviet Union was responsible for a lot of heartache, but one of the lesser known problems that arose out of the closed boundaries of Russia during the middle portion of the last century is the restriction to scientific locations.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Kamchatka Peninsula and Kuril Islands lie off the east coast of continental Russia and are a seismic and volcanic hotbed, according to researchers from the University of Washington.<\/p>\n

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In 1952 a magnitude 9 earthquake devastated the region and sent tsunamis throughout the Pacific Rim.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s not a large population in the Russian Far East, but it\u2019s obviously important to the people who live there. Thousands of people were killed in tsunamis because of the earthquake in 1952. And tsunamis don\u2019t stay home,\u201d said Jody Bourgeois, a University of Washington professor of Earth and space sciences.<\/p>\n

More recently an earthquake in 2006 that struck central Kurils produced a local tsunami up to 50 feet and sent smaller tsunamis across the Pacific, eventually causing over $10 million in damages at Crescent City, California.<\/p>\n

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In 2009 the\u00a0Sarychev Peak in the Kurils erupted disruptig air traffic over the North Pacific.\u00a0Clearly, determining the frequency of such events is important to many people over a broad area, Bourgeois said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLet\u2019s say you decide to build a nuclear power plant in Crescent City. You have to consider local events, but you also have to consider non-local events, worst-case scenarios, which includes tsunamis coming across the Pacific,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The historic record for the region is relatively short, sadly, and what information there is has only been available for a relatively short amount of time due to the obvious earlier political repercussions of Soviet Russia’s attitude towards the world.<\/p>\n

There has been a lot learned in the past 10 years thanks to the examination of tsunami deposits and other evidence in the region, but there is a greater need for more field work in the Kamchatka-Kurils subduction zone is required to get a clearer picture.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor hazard analysis, you should just assume that a subduction zone can produce a magnitude 9 earthquake,\u201d she said. So it is important to \u201cpay attention to the prehistoric record\u201d to know where, and how often, such major events occur.<\/p>\n

Source: University of Washington<\/a>
\nImage Source: Google Earth and University of Washington<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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