Tuesday, June 25, 2013

A tsunami might have struck the East Coast earlier this month, and few noticed

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You have probably heard the old adage, "if a tree falls in a forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" Now imagine that same thought experiment, except with a tsunami instead of a tree. That's the intriguing question facing scientists at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), who are examining tsunami-like data from recorded earlier this month by more than 30 tidal gauges in the Atlantic, as The Associated Press reports today.


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