Posted on 01/23/2018 1:45:48 AM PST by Species8472
We’d throw money in a jar and predict the magnitude. Closest won the pot.
i mean inches high in these areas:
GUAM... HAWAII... JAPAN... JOHNSTON ATOLL... MEXICO...
MIDWAY ISLAND... NORTHERN MARIANAS... NORTHWESTERN
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS... RUSSIA... AND WAKE ISLAND.
could be bigger in alaska i’m sure
Reading on Twitter the entrance to Kodiak Bay is emptying. This is an unverified report. We’ll see.
BULLETIN
Public Tsunami Message Number 3
NWS National Tsunami Warning Center Palmer AK
142 AM AKST Tue Jan 23 2018 PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS - UPDATED
Kodiak bay emptying? not good, when it does that the wave comes next. Seven minutes and it’ll hit here.
they just cancelled the tsunami watch for hawaii and areas around the pacific (i don’t think they cancelled alaska though)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haeQhHs3m_8
http://www.crew.org/sites/default/files/CREWCascadiaFinal.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1700_Cascadia_earthquake
I am thinking of retiring up that way, been looking at island property for two years.
I’m on the Alaska coast, no Tsunami here yet.
Checked looked at the KHON feed, they think the wave will only be a foot high.
The north shore of the west coast of Vancouver Island will get hit if this is bad. Few people live up there though, loggers, natives that’s about it. Rugged beautiful unforgiving country, lots of bears.
Everything I’m seeing suggests tsunami is a no show.
Nothing in Sitka, step-mom moved up the hillside and apparently lost phone signal—very poor coverage on best days, few people, 15 miles of road.
Warning canceled.
No, the words, “Phoenix, Arizona, 1949” brought the Coasters’ song two-steppin’ its way into my mind.
* THE FORECAST BASED ON THE EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM SHOWS NO THREAT FOR AREAS OF THE PACIFIC COVERED BY THIS PRODUCT.
I think this was more of a strike-slip fault, where it slides sideways across each other. I’m pretty sure for a large tsunami you need a vertical displacement of the seafloor.
The Indian Ocean earthquake with the huge tsunami had something like a 1000 km long fault and the one side was thrust up 30 feet or something! That is going to displace a LOT of water, which is more of the mechanism of the wave creation. Rather than just a shock wave caused by a quake with no large change in the seafloor. I think!?
Meant to say, with these places so close to the ocean, one doesn’t have much time to wait for more information. If you feel a quake you are supposed to move to high ground immediatly.
Some places on the Washington coast are only something like 7 minutes away from a tsunami when the “big one” hits. (Cascadia Subduction zone).
Everybody OK?
The Tsunami information page at NOAA is offline because of the government shutdown. That is going to piss some people off.
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