The Next Tsunami: Living on a Restless Coast

On a March evening in 1964, ten-year-old Tom Horning awoke near midnight to find his yard transformed. A tsunami triggered by Alaska's momentous Good Friday earthquake had wreaked havoc in his Seaside, Oregon, neighborhood. It was, as far as anyone knew, the Pacific Northwest coast's first-ever tsunami. More than twenty years passed before geologists discovered that it was neither Oregon's first nor worst tsunami. In fact, massive tsunamis strike the Pacific coast every few hundred years, tri…