Prayers...
Hopefully there soon will be details, like the areas targeted by the warning, and the expected magnitude of the tsunami.
That is a big one. Thanks for the heads up mhking.
CAN THIS HIT THS US WEST COAST\HAWAII\ALASKA?
Will someone take Rove's finger off the "Big Wave" switch?
If it would only take out Pyongyang,...government officials that is.
Bush has become a master of this natural disaster stuff.
I cant find anything on this..not even on the AP wire
Owww...may God watch over Japan!
TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 001
PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
ISSUED AT 2148Z 14 NOV 2005
THIS BULLETIN IS FOR ALL AREAS OF THE PACIFIC BASIN EXCEPT
ALASKA - BRITISH COLUMBIA - WASHINGTON - OREGON - CALIFORNIA.
... TSUNAMI INFORMATION BULLETIN ...
THIS MESSAGE IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY.
AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS
ORIGIN TIME - 2139Z 14 NOV 2005
COORDINATES - 38.2 NORTH 144.8 EAST
LOCATION - OFF EAST COAST OF HONSHU JAPAN
MAGNITUDE - 7.3
EVALUATION
NO DESTRUCTIVE PACIFIC-WIDE TSUNAMI THREAT EXISTS BASED ON
HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI DATA.
HOWEVER - EARTHQUAKES OF THIS SIZE SOMETIMES GENERATE LOCAL
TSUNAMIS THAT CAN BE DESTRUCTIVE ALONG COASTS LOCATED WITHIN
A HUNDRED KILOMETERS OF THE EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER. AUTHORITIES
IN THE REGION OF THE EPICENTER SHOULD BE AWARE OF THIS
POSSIBILITY AND TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION.
THIS WILL BE THE ONLY BULLETIN ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT UNLESS
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BECOMES AVAILABLE.
THE WEST COAST/ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER WILL ISSUE BULLETINS
FOR ALASKA - BRITISH COLUMBIA - WASHINGTON - OREGON - CALIFORNIA.
Prayers......
MAP 7.2 2005/11/14 21:38:54 38.169 144.851 23.7 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
Centre Sismologique Euro-Mediterraneen
European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre
Rapid Determination of Source Parameters
operated at LDG (Paris) and IGN (Madrid)
ALERT MESSAGE
WARNING : These parameters are preliminary and subject to revision.
Location and magnitude estimations may be revised if necessary in
an INFORMATION message.
EARTHQUAKE on 14/11/2005 at 21:38 (UTC)
OFF EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN 289 km SE Shirahama
MAGNITUDE: mb 7.2
Data provided by: GFZ GII INGV LED LJU NEIC SED SKO SOF ZAMG
Latitude = 38.15 N
Longitude = 144.95 E
Origin Time = 21:38:49.9 (UTC)
Depth = 10 Km
RMS = 0.81 sec
Gap = 36 degrees
95% confidence ellipse: - Semi major = 5.0 Km
- Semi minor = 3.2 Km
- Azimuth of major axis = 172 degrees
Number of data used = 329
Preliminary location computed on Mon Nov 14 22:08:04 2005 (UTC)
Done by Remy Bossu
Comments :
Message number: 617
All magnitudes estimations :
mb6.5 (GFZ) mb6.7 (INGV) mb6.7 (LED) M 7.2 (NEIC)
mb6.6 (SED) mb6.9 (SKO) mb6.6 (ZAMG)
P.S.: For additional information, please contact EMSC at:
- Email: mazet[at]emsc-csem.org
- Web : http://www.emsc-csem.org (maps available)
- Fax : 33 1 69 26 70 00
Prayers
Isn't President Bush headed over that way?
6.9? 7.2??
God Bless the affected...
Wolf Blitzer just asked on CNN LIVE whether or not hurricanes and earthquakes are happening due to weather patterns and global warming that scientists are not picking up on.
What a total clueless asshole.
Oh Damn!