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Boothbay Me Unusual Tide Changes
On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 19:22:03 -0000, "Alisdair Gurney"
wrote: "Roger Long" wrote in message ... This is certainly the strangest confirmable marine event I've ever heard of. More pictures he http://www.wcsh6.com/includes/tools/...?storyid=95015 Damage is worse than any storm in memory. Since it's my former hometown, it is especially interesting. Local sources do not indicate any seismic activity but there may simply be a lag in reporting. A similar but smaller surge was reported in Cundys Harbor. Both places are similar in having configurations that could magnify surge effects and also in that both are more active at this time of year than other nearby areas where surge might simply not have been observed. The Coast Guard says surge from a storm at sea but I give that no creedance. The effects would be over a much larger area or these events would be more common. My guess would be a large but slow underwater slide of bottom sediments that didn't create much seismic vibration but sucked the water down. It's still early though and more widespread damage reports may come in. The geologists may also look back and find an event they would have overlooked if not for the land reports. Add another to my long list of reasons to prefer being anchored out than tied to a dock. What, anchored in the same stuff that's sliding? Alisdair Actually its more like off the continental shelf, down the continental slope and into the abyss. Few anchor two hundred miles out. Drill rigs maybe. These are landslides we are discussing. You might have trouble getting an anchor to set on a steep hillside. I never tried it, myself. Casady |
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