Newport, Oregon Coast, Tsunami

[Lugnuts]

Originally Posted by Random_Walk

You'd have to sleep awful damned heavy to snooze through a 6.0+ Earthquake.

I get what you mean, though. But all that said, hell, most places on Earth are death traps (example? Growing up in NW Arkansas meant tornadoes, and they do have a habit of sneaking up on you at 3am: Fort Smith Tornado 1996 | Tornado Kills 4, Injures 50 in Arkansas - Los Angeles Times )

Depends on how far away and how deep in the earth the epicenter is. Geez, it takes me 15 minutes just to find my keys every morning! Guess I better get my $h!t together before I move to the coast.

[bghouse]

The map the OP linked to actually shows most of Newport in the yellow for local earthquake and tsunami. Does that mean it's outside the hazard area for non-local tsunami's?

[Lugnuts]

Yellow is local (Cascadia), Orange is from distant events (Japan,etc). It seemed to me that South Beach was low (yellow) and most of Newport was out of the hazard zone, but I'll look again.

[Lugnuts]

If you zoom in on Newport, it seems that the vast majority of it is out of the hazard zone and only the beach areas get hit. Looks like most of South Beach is yellow so it will be hammered.

[Larry Caldwell]

Originally Posted by SETabor

Faster than the sinking is wave and wind erosion. Bluffs above the ocean look great and have awesome views but tend to lose feet fairly quickly.

I once saw an entire beach front street in Newport vanish. It was interesting to see houses sitting on the beach, waiting for the next storm to carry them away. Parts of the campground at Short Sands disappeared years ago.

Even more impressive, the Cape Kiwanda I remember from 50 years ago is gone. The sandstone doesn't last long.