13-December-2006, 10:11 PM
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Well, I was just saying that 500 meters was more than 700 feet.
Here's a cool map:
http://starbulletin.com/2003/12/01/news/story3.html
for more:
http://users.bendnet.com/bjensen/vol...ii-hawaii.html
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The abundance of giant landslides around the principal Hawaiian Islands indicates that such landslides are an integral part of their life history. Fortunately, such catastrophic events occur infrequently - - only once every several hundred thousand years.
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http://geology.about.com/library/bl/...lhawaiimap.htm
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Most of the islands have irregular shapes, not like the round volcanoes you find on continents. This is because their sides tend to collapse in gigantic landslides, leaving chunks the size of cities scattered around the deep sea floor near Hawaii. If such a landslide happened today it would be devastating to the islands and, thanks to tsunamis, the entire coast of the Pacific Ocean.
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