[joinedafterattack]

When it hits Hawaii

[nevergore]

Reports are in that a 40 meter tsunami hit the Juan Fernadez islands....(about 130 feet)!!!

[Drango]

http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/events/eventmap.php

[annieokie]

Honolulu Web Cameras:

Sorry I am not up on how to make it clickable for you. (cut and paste)

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

[blueyon]

Get out....no I mean “get out”.

[Logic n' Reason]

CNN EXPERT??????????????????????????

Do they even have one of those??

[P.O.E.]

CNN’s crawler is saying 16ft waves to hit Chile’s shores. 16 or 60?

[Brugmansian]

The hillsides of Hilo must be covered with video equipment by now and choppers in the air. If it is what is predicted, we’ll see some spectacular shots.

[Eye of Unk]

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.

[metmom]

That’s more like 66 feet, not 60.

[RayChuang88]

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.

[Will88]

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

[JRios1968]

Bush’s Fault, of course

[Atom Smasher]

CNN expert?

...hmmm

[Jack Hydrazine]

Surf’s up, dudes!

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

What a bunch of overreaction and exaggeration.

It was suppose to hit Panama at 8:30 am. I was going to drive down to the shore (about a mile away) to see this non-show, but I got busy with something important.

Oh wait. I just read where it is now expected to hit later. No hour, day, or year stated. (yawn)

This reminds me of global warming and the attempt at the H1N1 scare.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

While such monster waves are possible, it is more likely the newscasters are ignorant or exaggerating to attract viewers.

[traditional1]

It will probably be blamed for flooding of the vault holding the REAL Obama Birth Certificate (long form original), and he will skate free.....

[Freddd]

When CNN first started talking about it, they said it was expected to be NOTHING ! So the sirens are just for a ‘drill’.....but makes hyped up ‘news’, eh????

[TomGuy]

Hawaii TV2 Live streaming report [MS Player link]

mms://a642.l7309558641.c73095.n.lm.akamaistream.net/D/642/73095/v0001/reflector:58641