A 4” rise (or drop) of the ocean floor covering a few hundred square miles is a tremendous, potential, force. These buoys are firmly attached to the ocean floor. Waves crash upon them all day and night. Tides are different than waves and easily accounted for. A 10’ tidal wave would register on a buoy as a 4” to 6” ‘long pulse’ that would only turn into a wave when it neared the shore and the depth of the ocean, relatively, decreased.
What’s so hard to understand about the above?
Too technical for you?
The ocean floor rose, initially 4”, then another 3’ - it’s not a wave nor a tide.
And you called the journalist an idiot.
I did call the journalist idiotic (not “an idiot”), for saying that the ocean floor sank, when the recorded depth of water got shallower. Try to visualize the situation.
What is hard to understand is why you decided to weigh in with a lot of tripe about “tidal waves” and rogue waves. I understand what you said; it’s just irrelevant.
How can the ocean floor rise (or drop) that much without registering as a major earthquake? It should have registered as a major quake. I check the USGS site daily, and don't remember such a recent quake.