Tsunami Threat Looms Over Pacific Northwest


	Tsunami Threat Looms Over Pacific Northwest

kkcapricorn

10-20-2009 12:32 PM

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To get out of the popular tourist town of Seaside, Ore., for example, people need to cross two bridges that could fail in a quake. Children, seniors and the disabled will have the hardest time evacuating

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