original locations. Houses and tourist cabins along River Road were 

 shifted, and in some cases, carried back as much as 1,000 yards. Damage 

 ranged from total destruction to minor water damage. Houses on sub- 

 stantial foundations with the superstructure secured to the foundation 

 (presumably by bolts) remained in place. Observers reported floating 

 logs and houses to have reached speeds in excess of 20 miles per hour 

 (White, 1966). 



A 5^-inch water pipeline supplying the McMillan-Bloedel and Powell 

 River Company plant was carried away by logs which collided with it as 

 they were carried along with the wave. The pipeline was mounted on 

 trestles, and traversed the mud flats near the head of the inlet. The 

 sewage disposal basin in the same area was filled with logs, but no 

 permanent damage occurred to the system (Figure 206). 



Many commercial establishments along the waterfront in Port Alberni 

 were severely water damaged. The cleanup operations were complicated by 

 mud which accompanied the flooding. Engineering and warehouse buildings 

 near the Canadian Pacific and Dom.inion Government Wharf were affected. 

 Stocks on the lower shelves in these buildings were badly damaged by 

 wetting. Considerable damage was done also to wharf structures as a 

 result of the decks rising with the waves and then becoming distorted 

 and buckled in some parts during the recession. Fisherman's Wharf was 

 raised with enough force to fracture 6- by 10-inch,, timber, cross bars 

 on the pilings (White, I966). 



At the site of the China Creek logging operation of the McMillan- 

 Bloedel and Powell River Company, a wharf was lifted off the supporting 

 pilings, and left resting on the dowell pins. Here, log booms were not 

 seriously disarranged by the waves. However, at the Franklin River 

 operation, farther down the Inlet, many log booms were broken up. Large 

 concrete anchors used to hold log markers in place were dragged out into 

 the inlet. The deck of a wharf was carried away and some residences were 

 flooded. Two beacons, which marked the Sproat Narrows on both sides of 

 the inlet, were swept away together with their supporting dolphins. The 

 transpacific submarine cable and the telephone cable, which are laid in 

 ±he Alberni Inlet, were reported damaged in the vicinity of the Narrows. 



r Estimates of wave heights of from 2 to o feet above high water were 

 reported from communities farther down the Inlet at Kildonan, Bamfield, 

 and Turtle Islands. Logs were moved well back from the beach at Pachena 

 Bay by waves of large amplitude. The above information is quoted almost 

 erbatim from White (1966). 



3. Tsunami Damage along the Washington-Oregon Coasts, United States 



Along the Washington coast some damage was caused by the tsunami. 

 Table B-U, Appendix B, shows highest water level at several places and 

 lists the major damages. The total monetary loss along the V/ashington 

 coast has been estimated to be about $10U,500 (Hogan, et al, 1961+ ). 



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