Diego Garcia, Chagos Islands, Indian Ocean..wonder how our base fared?
I wonder too, hope all is well. Fox news just had a brief alert on this disaster.
Has anyone heard anything about the Seychelles? I have a colleague who moved there with his entire family. I have only seen sketchy news on this so far. :-(
Turning on Fox and CNN now.
Diego Garcia is in deep water.
Tsunami only will affect if it slows in shallow water.
Think of a freight train with 1 thousand cars piling up because the locomotive stopped -- sort of an analogy.
Tsunami is about 3 feet high for 100,000 feet long -- traveling at 300 MPH. When it hits shallow water, it has a breaking effect -- the 100,000 feet long wave gets compressed in a short distance, and the speed is reduced to 30 MPH. This causes the 80 foot or higher wall of water.
Diego Garcia is atop a volcano, although it is a coral island chain. Deep water means the 4 foot wall of water hits at 300 MPH for 100,000 feet -- but that is not much of a problem.
An 80 foot wall of water at 30 MPH -- maybe for 1000 feet is a problem, though -- and that is the compression effect of shallow water.
Before basing $1 billion dollar planes, somebody in DoD probably did some Math and failure analysis -- which you have...