Posted on 02/08/2025 3:34:50 PM PST by janetjanet998
BREAKING: 8.0-magnitude earthquake hits the Caribbean Sea - PTWC
If they are at sea, they would barely notice it. A Tsunami at sea would be a “bump”.
Yes, the Richter scale is logarithmic.
We’re in a sailboat off of Key Largo, anchored in Hawk Channel. This is...disconcerning...but, Cuba is in the way.
Was it as bad as the one that destroyed Port Royal in 1692?
https://allthatsinteresting.com/port-royal
Oddly at sea the tsunami is minimal but a small wave traveling at extreme velocity with great energy. A ship at sea is in no danger. When that wave hits shallow depts all that energy is transformed into an enormous wave and intrusion of water.
I walked by a trailer park here in Florida today.
Machines and men were at work tearing up trailers flooded by the hurricanes.
Big problem if they are near shore / docked / in a harbor, though...
Tsunamis can’t surround an island and keep going?
Of just overwhelm Cuba and keep going?
I dont know..just asking.
You won’t even feel it if you are in water over 100’ deep.
Lol! I cant help it. But thinking what they must have though when two thirds of that hell hole disappeared into the Ocean.
“Arrrrr, the man oopstairs had enoof of us.”
Matter of a fact. Place reminds me of DC.
Reflect..refraction or whatever they call it.
Its like taking a speed boat creating waves then cross those waves. Ive done it and created waves way higher than the side of my boat. Stupid really. Kids..
Almost the same magnitude - Port Royal was estimated @ 7.5.
From the article at the link, it sounds to me as if substantial subsidence was involved with Port Royal’s destruction, since many ruins are still well under water. Something like the creation of Reelfoot Lake, in far NW Tennessee, would be about the same magnitude of sinking, perhaps?
Well, the Caribs were cannibals so they should rename the sea. Maybe the Columbian Sea after Christopher Columbus (who should have had the continents named for him rather than that pickle seller Amerigo Vespucci).
Cruise Ship Sea?
Trump Effect?
I assume the US has satellites that can monitor for an area of uplift, and estimate the amount of seawater displaced?
Contrary to Previous Belief, Strike-Slip Faults Can Generate Large Tsunamis
Let's hope this one doesn't.
Lateral sliding motion. No need for a tsunami warning.
Tsunami/Volare
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dean+martin+volare&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DejzDJkUXgdw
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