Good point. The boundary of the Pacific Plate with the North American Plate is about 1000mls south of the proposed tunnel. That's about as far as the African Plate/Eurasian Plate boundary is from The Channel Tunnel. Here in the north of Thailand, I happen to be, again, about 1000mls from epicentre of the quake off the coast of Sumatra that caused the devastating tsunami in Dec 2004. At that time I was sitting right here at this computer. My whole world was shoved a few inches to the right over a period of a second or two. A weird feeling to find yourself momentarily leaning to the left!

Let's hope these people have done their homework!

"As a sweetner Russia will offer cheap oil and power to Alaska, for 25 years."

? Sounds like "sending coals to Newcastle".

"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once" - John Wheeler