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Tsunami Watch for Hawaii [Update: tsunami confirmed, 8.3 quake]
NOAA ^ | 09-29-09 | USGS

Posted on 09/29/2009 11:52:37 AM PDT by Right_Handed_Writer

BULLETIN TSUNAMI MESSAGE NUMBER 1 NWS PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER EWA BEACH HI 805 AM HST TUE SEP 29 2009

TO - CIVIL DEFENSE IN THE STATE OF HAWAII

SUBJECT - TSUNAMI WATCH

A TSUNAMI WATCH IS ISSUED FOR THE STATE OF HAWAII EFFECTIVE AT 0805 AM HST.

AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS

ORIGIN TIME - 0748 AM HST 29 SEP 2009 COORDINATES - 15.3 SOUTH 171.0 WEST LOCATION - SAMOA ISLANDS REGION MAGNITUDE - 7.9 MOMENT

EVALUATION

BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE DATA A TSUNAMI MAY HAVE BEEN GENERATED BY THIS EARTHQUAKE THAT COULD BE DESTRUCTIVE ON COASTAL AREAS EVEN FAR FROM THE EPICENTER. AN INVESTIGATION IS UNDERWAY TO DETERMINE IF THERE IS A TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII.

IF TSUNAMI WAVES IMPACT HAWAII THE ESTIMATED EARLIEST ARRIVAL OF THE FIRST TSUNAMI WAVE IS

0111 PM HST TUE 29 SEP 2009

MESSAGES WILL BE ISSUED HOURLY OR SOONER AS CONDITIONS WARRANT.

Tsunami Warning as follows:

TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 001 PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS ISSUED AT 1804Z 29 SEP 2009

THIS BULLETIN APPLIES TO AREAS WITHIN AND BORDERING THE PACIFIC OCEAN AND ADJACENT SEAS...EXCEPT ALASKA...BRITISH COLUMBIA... WASHINGTON...OREGON AND CALIFORNIA.

... A TSUNAMI WARNING AND WATCH ARE IN EFFECT ...

A TSUNAMI WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR

AMERICAN SAMOA / SAMOA / NIUE / WALLIS-FUTUNA / TOKELAU / COOK ISLANDS / TONGA / TUVALU / KIRIBATI / KERMADEC IS / FIJI / HOWLAND-BAKER / JARVIS IS. / NEW ZEALAND / FR. POLYNESIA / PALMYRA IS.

(Excerpt) Read more at tsunami.gov ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: earthquake; hawaii; samoa; tsunami
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To: BIGLOOK

I’ll be home by then.Everybody stay safe.


161 posted on 09/29/2009 2:03:49 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: BIGLOOK

Very big shaker, so there are sure to be aftershocks.
Up in Japan, they say Nai No Kami is the underworld god of earthquakes. He must be very mad.


162 posted on 09/29/2009 2:07:53 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
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To: Publius6961
The name was given during the brief occupation by Germany. In old German, certain letters of the alphabet have an implicit "n" added before it. "G" is one of them. I don't know enough German to identify the others.

Um, no, the samoan language pronounces it that way. American Samoa was never occupied by the Germans. Even when they bombed Pearl Harbor.

163 posted on 09/29/2009 2:13:10 PM PDT by Experiment 6-2-6 (Admn Mods: tiny, malicious things that glare and gibber from dark corners.They have pins and dolls..)
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To: MrDaddyLongLegs

I am glad to hear your wife and family are okay.


164 posted on 09/29/2009 2:14:52 PM PDT by Experiment 6-2-6 (Admn Mods: tiny, malicious things that glare and gibber from dark corners.They have pins and dolls..)
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To: Experiment 6-2-6

The GERMANS bombed Pearl Harbor?


165 posted on 09/29/2009 2:15:43 PM PDT by Pyro7480 ("If you know how not to pray, take Joseph as your master, and you will not go astray." - St. Teresa)
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To: Pyro7480

D-Day: War’s over, man. Wormer dropped the big one.
Bluto: Over? Did you say “over”? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter: Germans?
Boon: Forget it, he’s rolling.
Bluto: And it ain’t over now. ‘Cause when the goin’ gets tough...
[thinks hard]
Bluto: the tough get goin’! Who’s with me? Let’s go!


166 posted on 09/29/2009 2:44:50 PM PDT by hc87
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To: La Enchiladita; All

No tsunami will hit Maui. The worst expected now is an extra high tide or surge at high tide and even that is speculation. Thank you Lord. It’s on the news here now: downgrade of tsunami


167 posted on 09/29/2009 3:04:15 PM PDT by fish hawk (Lord, help us to attain knowledge and the wisdom to apply it toward your ultimate will.)
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To: fish hawk

I’m sure all are still on alert, however.
I cannot count how many times we’ve had a tsunami warning in SoCal and it didn’t happen.
You just don’t know though.


168 posted on 09/29/2009 4:24:30 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (Words fail me)
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To: Experiment 6-2-6
Um, no, the samoan language pronounces it that way. American Samoa was never occupied by the Germans.

Never said it was. Influenced is not the same as occupied.

The Tripartite Convention of 1899 resulted in the act that formally partitioned the Samoan archipelago into a German colony and a United States territory and was the culmination of years of civil war among Samoan factions and of rivalry between the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom at the brink of war. Forerunners to the Tripartite Convention of 1899 were the Washington Conference of 1887, the Treaty of Berlin of 1889 and the Anglo-German Agreement on Samoa of 1899.

Just saying.

169 posted on 09/29/2009 5:10:02 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Obama Garden Club: Nothing but plants.)
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To: Publius6961
Funny the way language works. I did use the word "occupied" as in having a significant presence. Not as the victors in a war or takeover by invaders.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, pacific Islands from Asia to Hawaii were not countries in the modern political sense, and often an island would offer allegiance to whomever the last powerful warship stopped to visit.
that the Germans and the Dutch (among others) had a presence and influence there is beyond debate, and since the Samoans did not have a written language prior to European "discovery", the influence of the European alphabets in the written form of the name were unavoidable.

Of course the Samoans have always pronounced the name of the village as if it had an "n" in it. How that evolved is another story.

170 posted on 09/29/2009 5:19:17 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Obama Garden Club: Nothing but plants.)
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To: fish hawk

dude, a 6 inch wave hit Kauai.


171 posted on 09/29/2009 5:45:36 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: seemoAR

Go get one . . or two . . or three

http://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/aucindx/


172 posted on 09/29/2009 7:46:33 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: 1066AD

Thank you very much. I was wondering how to check on them.


173 posted on 09/30/2009 4:03:45 AM PDT by seemoAR
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To: bcsco

Is that from the web site or from the Hawaii Dept. of Birth Certificates?


174 posted on 09/30/2009 7:35:30 AM PDT by murron (Proud Marine Mom)
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To: TaraP

That water DOES look rough..and the trees are blowing like crazy.


175 posted on 09/30/2009 2:45:09 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
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To: MrDaddyLongLegs

Keep us posted! All of you are in my prayers. The water looks terribly rough on the live cam... I couldn’t believe I saw people on the beach.... Not sure where the cam is actually located.. hmmm it says “first resort built in Poipu “


176 posted on 09/30/2009 2:55:35 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
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To: MrDaddyLongLegs

um ok i’m a day late.... :-p


177 posted on 09/30/2009 2:57:07 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
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