India and US - III

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<!--QuoteBegin-kalyan97+Mar 26 2007, 05:22 AM-->QUOTE(kalyan97 @ Mar 26 2007, 05:22 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin--> On 17th January, a reporter from the Times of India asked me about the possible influence of  future tsunamis in India due to the Sethu Samudram Project. I told him that there is some possibility that tsunami energy could be funnelled into the chanal and could affect the sothern part of kerala. I pointed out to him some similarity to the Alberni canal on Vancouver Island in the province of British Columbia in Canada. During the tsunami of 28th March 1964, outside ot Alaska, where the tsunami was generated, the maximum tsunami amplitude anywhere in the pacific ocean occurred at Port Alberni located at the head of the Alberni canal. Eventhough the tsunami amplitude was small in the deep ocean, it was amplified considerably through quarter wave resonance in the Alberni Inlet.
3. The reporter asked me can I suggest a solution to this problem, and I told him that as long as the entrance of the chanal on the Bay of Bengal side does not face towards east, the chances of tsunami energy getting in to the chanal will be minimized. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->


Please see a map of the Alberni canal. http://ilmbwww.gov.bc.ca/ilmb/lup/lrmp/coa...ages/area18.gif

It ain't NO straight tube. Yet, the maximum amplitude of the tsunami wave was said to have been recorded at this canal inlet.

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