Talk:1964 Alaska earthquake/Archive 2

Archive 1

Archive 2

Waves

When I originally added the BC info, I noted wave times and sizes. The current version only mentions the size of the wave in Prince Rupert. It suggests that the same tsunami moved along to Tofino (which is 512 km away) and then went up the Alberni Canal twice. I am not a geoscientist, but I believe that these were separate waves, caused by the same tsunami. The wave sizes and times may also indicate this. Is it correct to say the tsunami struck twice, when we're really referring to a series or the wave train? It's fine if the text is reworded, but I think the current wording is a bit confusing or even misleading. Noting times and wave sizes also helps to show the great distance that tsunami covers in a short time without significant energy loss.--Westendgirl 08:16, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

With regard to Alberti, I was under the impression that it was more or less the same wave. I'm no geoscientist either, but you seem to be better versed than I am, so I'll defer to you there.

My thinking in removing the times and wave sizes was that it seemed out of place, in a more-or-less general overview of the damage, to suddenly move into tenth-of-an-hour statistics and wave information for only one area. The idea of showing the tsunami's power that way didn't occur to me, but maybe it would be better served with a separate section on the tsunami itself, rather conflating it with damage summaries? Say, either a table with times/heights all along the tsunami zone, or a text paragraph mentioning wave speed, a few time/location points, and wave height at a few significant places. A table would be great, but I'm not sure where the info would be easily found. The USGS report has a graphic with approximate times, but no heights, and this page has very detailed wave height reports, but no timestamps.

Or any ideas you might have; the above is just me thinking aloud, really (at midnight, at that) Fargnax 09:20, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Currency calculations

I did some not-entirely-obvious calculations to express the property damages in modern dollars. I used this calculator to convert 1964 USD to 2005 USD. I used this calculator to convert 1964 CAD to 2005 CAD. However, to obtain the USD amount for the Canadian damage correctly, I had to convert 1964 CAD to 1964 USD, then 1964 USD to 2005 USD. The former required a historic exchange rate chart listing the rate at 1.0786 CAD per USD in 1964. This means $10M CAD was about $9.2M USD in 1964, which I then used the USD inflation calculator on. Deco 05:16, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Chile is the largest North American earthquake?

That must've been HUGE! Chile is in South America, now!

Apparently I was an "accidental vandal" from work. I'm a newbie to commenting on articles, and did not realize my edit would be propagated as part of the main article itself. I apologize to the moderators of Wikipedia and to any users annoyed by the apparent disrespect. But, um, seriously... Ya gotta quit wording this to make it sound like you're scoring Chile as a North American earthquake. Also, the tally of the dead adds to 130, not 115.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.143.31.101 (talk) 05:13, November 10, 2006 (UTC)

You seem to be commenting on something that is not in this particular article, I don't see any mention of Chile here. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:12, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

This comment was added back in November 2006, when the article included reference to the 1960 Valdivia earthquake in the opening sentence, so it's a bit stale by now. Mikenorton (talk) 22:00, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

Hehe, my mistake, someone was editing this section yesterday and I guess I just assumed they added it. Archiving may be in order if we have have comments from ten years ago hanging around. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:06, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Conflict with Indian Ocean Event?

It seems that both this and the Indian Ocean '04 event are the "second largest ever recorded on a seismograph". How is this possible?— Preceding unsigned comment added by DJbhindi (talk • contribs) 23:24, April 26, 2010 (UTC)

Info from TV show?

I'm not sure if this belongs here or in its own section... 98.251.151.63 (talk) 20:47, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Something tells me that you're actually referring to the 1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami some years prior. RadioKAOS  – Talk to me, Billy 03:42, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Bingo - I deleted what I posted above that was irrelevant to this article, and posted fresh info in the correct talk page. Thanks. Steve8394 (talk) 03:52, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

Deaths

Were there really no deaths outside of America and Canada? LeapUK (talk) 09:16, 16 September 2015 (UTC)