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Tsunami = CNN Expert Just Stated Wave Height Could Reach 20 METERS, 60FT
CNN | 2-27-10

Posted on 02/27/2010 7:05:36 AM PST by joinedafterattack

Whoa!!!!


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: chileearthquake; tsunami
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To: grobdriver

4:19 p.m. EST is the predicted time.


21 posted on 02/27/2010 7:17:46 AM PST by BushCountry (I am such a charming guy, a hooker once told me she had a headache.)
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To: joinedafterattack

Its probably 20 FEET, the tsunami that hit Hilo before was around 35 feet and was generated by an earthquake also from S. America at near the same magnitude.

Not something to sneeze at though, it can very well be serious.


22 posted on 02/27/2010 7:19:16 AM PST by Eye of Unk ("Either you are with us or you are for the terrorists." ~~George W. Bush)
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To: joinedafterattack

Release the BC!


23 posted on 02/27/2010 7:19:24 AM PST by FrdmLvr ("The people will believe what the media tells them they believe." Orwell)
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To: BushCountry

5 hours from now.


24 posted on 02/27/2010 7:20:04 AM PST by Eye of Unk ("Either you are with us or you are for the terrorists." ~~George W. Bush)
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To: joinedafterattack

That’s more like 66 feet, not 60.


25 posted on 02/27/2010 7:20:21 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: joinedafterattack
Not possible. The surge from the tsunami that hit Banda Aceh after the 2004 earthquake was around 30 feet high (just under 9 meters in height)--but even that pretty scoured the land for several miles inland.

The big concern is that the wave when it hits the southern coasts of the Hawai'ian Islands will be around 9-11 feet--but it's not just one short wave, but one long continuous surge that could last for several minutes. That right there could cause ENORMOUS damage to Waikiki Beach at minimum.

26 posted on 02/27/2010 7:21:24 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: BushCountry

I’m wrong, it would be 6 hours from now or so, I’m at 6:21 Alaska, Hawaii would be 5:21am right now.


27 posted on 02/27/2010 7:21:55 AM PST by Eye of Unk ("Either you are with us or you are for the terrorists." ~~George W. Bush)
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To: annieokie

http://www.co.honolulu.hi.us/cameras/
Hawaii webcams clickable.


28 posted on 02/27/2010 7:22:03 AM PST by blu (Graffiti the world, I've seen the writing on the wall...)
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To: SE Mom

It’s about 1.1 yards per meter.


29 posted on 02/27/2010 7:22:07 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Brugmansian
choppers in the air

A bit early. Not expected for another 6 hours.

30 posted on 02/27/2010 7:23:35 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is fading.)
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To: nevergore

Whoever posted the 40 meter tsunami is posting rumors. Here is actual news report on Juan Fernandez Island

3 meters not 40

http://en.rian.ru/world/20100227/158031362.html

A 3-meter tsunami wave hit on Saturday the Robinson Crusoe island, the largest in the Chilean Juan Fernandez archipelago, following a powerful earthquake which struck Chile earlier in the day, the country’s president, Michelle Bachelet, said.

“A village on the island is half-flooded, people have been evacuated to higher elevations,” the president said, adding there had been extreme damage from the tsunami.

The 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit the Latin American country in the early hours of Saturday. The tremor occurred some 89 kilometers (55.3 miles) to the north of Chile’s second largest city Concepcion, some 341 kilometers (212 miles) from the capital of Santiago.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center put out a warning along the coastlines of Chile and Peru, and issued a tsunami watch for Colombia, Ecuador, Antarctica, Panama and Costa Rica.

Some 50 nations have been placed under a tsunami advisory. Areas of concern are the Hawaiian Islands, French Polynesia, Australia, and Japan. Russia’s Far Eastern region was also advised, but local emergency authorities have stated that the region is in no danger.


31 posted on 02/27/2010 7:24:28 AM PST by milwguy
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To: joinedafterattack

I thought I heard a prediction of six foot waves for Hawaii. And this from CNN:

“USGS geophysicist Victor Sardina said several tsunami waves had come ashore along the Chilean coast; the largest was recorded at 9 feet near the quake’s epicenter.”

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/27/chile.quake/index.html


32 posted on 02/27/2010 7:24:50 AM PST by Will88
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To: annieokie

http://www.co.honolulu.hi.us/cameras/


33 posted on 02/27/2010 7:26:03 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Does 0b0z0 have any friends, who aren't traitors, spies, tax cheats and criminals?)
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To: Will88

I bet there will be at least one nut with a surfboard that will try to ride the wave.


34 posted on 02/27/2010 7:26:09 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: joinedafterattack

CNN should not be scaring people with unsubstantiated crap. When the 9.5 struck Chile in 1960, a tsunami hit Hawaii, but was nowhere near that high........

A tsunami after the magnitude-9.5 quake that struck Chile in 1960, the largest earthquake ever recorded, killed about 140 people in Japan, 61 in Hawaii and 32 in the Philippines. That tsunami was about 3.3 to 13 feet (one to four meters) in height, Japan’s Meteorological Agency said.


35 posted on 02/27/2010 7:27:41 AM PST by milwguy
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To: metmom

3.28 feet per meter! 39.37” to the meter


36 posted on 02/27/2010 7:29:35 AM PST by WellyP
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To: milwguy
CNN should not be scaring people with unsubstantiated crap...

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I heard on CNN that the tsunami will cause an increase in bank failures, home foreclosures, interest rates, swine flu cases and globull warming.

37 posted on 02/27/2010 7:29:36 AM PST by wtc911 ("How you gonna get down that hill?")
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To: metmom

People are stating rumor not facts. The worst CNN can do is stoke fear. The 1960 quake was a 9.5 and the wave height was no more than 13 feet in Hawaii....

A tsunami after the magnitude-9.5 quake that struck Chile in 1960, the largest earthquake ever recorded, killed about 140 people in Japan, 61 in Hawaii and 32 in the Philippines. That tsunami was about 3.3 to 13 feet (one to four meters) in height, Japan’s Meteorological Agency said.


38 posted on 02/27/2010 7:30:42 AM PST by milwguy
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To: dfwgator
I bet there will be at least one nut with a surfboard that will try to ride the wave.

Probably more than one already waiting on the beaches of Hawaii.

39 posted on 02/27/2010 7:31:39 AM PST by Will88
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To: blueyon

Waikiki is facing the right direction if I remember correctly. The big island got hit worse in 1960, Hilo in particular


40 posted on 02/27/2010 7:32:20 AM PST by milwguy
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