Hurricane Katrina's Waves Felt In California

New Scientist ^ | 9-24-2006

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Hurricane Katrina's waves felt in California

11:00 24 September 2006
From New Scientist Print Edition.

On 29 August 2005, as hurricane Katrina was rumbling towards New Orleans, a seismic hum more than 1000 times the strength of the average volcanic tremor was felt nearly 3000 kilometres away in southern California. Its source was the hurricane itself.

Hurricanes create large ocean waves, which send energy pulsing through the Earth as they pound the shoreline. To determine the power of Katrina's seismic waves, Peter Gerstoft of the University of California, San Diego, and colleagues analysed the signals recorded by a network of 150 seismic stations in southern California just before Katrina hit the Louisiana coast. They used a method known as beamforming, which preferentially picks up signals from a particular direction, to decipher the seismicity generated by Katrina (Geophysical Research Letters, vol 33, p L17805).

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Mysterious and random seismic waves detected by seismologists for decades have been determined to be tornado touch-downs.

[theDentist]

Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, and Dianne Feinstein will be applying for $7 Billion in federal aid tomorrow, I bet.

[KJC1]

Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, and Dianne Feinstein will be applying for $7 Billion in federal aid tomorrow, I bet.

And asking why President Bush didn't operate his tectonic machine to stop it.

[ThomasThomas]

I didn't feel it!

[operation clinton cleanup]

Katrina and the Waves
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Katrina and the Waves in 1985
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Katrina and the Waves in 1985

Katrina and the Waves were a pop rock band of the 1980s, best known for their smash hit "Walking on Sunshine" and their 1997 Eurovision Song Contest victory.

Formed in 1981 in Cambridge, England, the Waves were fronted by American-born singer Katrina Leskanich until she left the group in 1999. Their lead guitarist is Kimberley Rew, formerly of the Soft Boys.

In 1985 the group had a worldwide hit with the song "Walking on Sunshine", a Top 10 UK success, still popular today as a feel-good summer track, used in numerous feature films and advertisements. A Grammy award nominee for "Best New Artist" followed, and several seasons of touring were followed by moderate sales of new releases. "Sun Street" was a UK Top 30 hit in 1986, though subsequent releases, including the infectious "Rock'n'Roll Girl" in 1988, failed to chart.

[jocko12]

7bn.Where do I go to get my free FEMA money.

[Parley Baer]

Crime rate must be up in California.

[P-40]

Katrina and the Waves

I guess now we have another band that is as ironically named as Anthrax. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrax_(band)