A puzzling tsunami entered Japanese history in January 1700.
Samurai, merchants, and villagers wrote of minor flooding and
damage. Some noted having felt no earthquake; they wondered what
had set off the waves but had no way of knowing that the tsunami
was spawned during an earthquake along the coast of northwestern
North America. This orphan tsunami would not be linked to its
parent earthquake until the mid-twentieth century, through an
extraordinary series of discoveries in both North America and
Japan. The Orphan Tsunami of 1700, now in its second edition, tells
this scientific detective story through its North American and
Japanese clues. The story underpins many of today's precautions
against earthquake and tsunami hazards in the Cascadia region of
northwestern North America. The Japanese tsunami of March 2011
called attention to these hazards as a mirror image of the
transpacific waves of January 1700. Hear Brian Atwater on NPR with
Renee Montagne
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4629401
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