.: Corvallis Gazette-Times: News - Top Story: "The model buildings will be put in place this summer, but a big part of the replica is a mockup of the sea floor leading up to the town. It cost about $100,000 to pour and sculpt the concrete floor of the Tsunami Wave Basin, Cox said.
The study hopes to determine the size of a potential tsunami in Seaside and whether it would be better to run for the hills or get to an upper floor of a beachfront hotel.
Scientists believe a large tsunami — a 35-foot-high wall of water rushing over the beach in Seaside — could be caused by a Cascadia subduction zone earthquake just offshore.
Researchers know that one occurred on Jan. 26, 1700. Such an event today would be similar to the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, which several people survived through “vertical evacuation” — taking refuge on the second story of a hotel or bar."
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