Re: Amchitka Island tidal waves?

[M Nivas <motnivas@YAHOO.COM>]

As a side item to this question - Does anyone know of

what size the waves were after the Cannikin detonation

at 1790 meters?







--- Carol Marcus <csmarcus@ucla.edu> wrote:

> June 10, 2003

> 

> Dear Radsafers:

> 

> Does anyone out there have data or know of a good

> website with dose 

> reconstruction information, or at least

> environmental data, for Kamchitka 

> Island?  I need information for April-August of 1967

> and April through June 

> of 1988.

> 

> Amchitka Island was the site of three nuclear

> detonations conducted in 

> October 1965, October 1969, and November 1971.  Long

> Shot was a nuclear 

> detonation research experiment detonated at a depth

> of 700 meters.  It had 

> a yield of about 80 kilotons.  Milrow was a

> high-yield seismic calibration 

> test detonated at a depth of 1220 meters.  It had a

> yield of about one 

> megaton.  Cannikin, a test of a proposed warhead for

> the Spartan missile, 

> was detonated at a depth of about 1790 meters, with

> a yield of less than 

> five megatons.

> 

> Any help you can give me would be much appreciated.

> 

> Ciao, Carol

> 

> Carol S. Marcus, Ph.D., M.D.

> <csmarcus@ucla.edu>

> 

>

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