Earthquake in Hawaii

[colorcountry]

Son just called. Does anyone know anything?

[mewzilla]

Some print reporter calling in to FNC said some other network is/was reporting that another earthquake was predicted to be on the way? WTH was with that?

[BIGLOOK]

I'm a Giants fan......dammit!

[Global2010]

Maryz concurs.
Dust cloud due to landslide.


LOL About this gal on tv who needed to get to the store for RICE!

Bieng Asian family raised I just assumed we all kept the huge 50lb sacks in the huge tins.

[onyx]

I'll go check the football thread for news on the Giants for you.

[budman_2001]

Over 70 photos of various EQ damage are here.

Much the same as what is being seen on HITV/CNN, but a few more.

[fish hawk]

When I left Calif. for Hawaii several years ago, I thought I left earthquakes behind. Now I have to worry about earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes exploding. LOL

[mom4kittys]

I didn't know they could be predicted?

[onyx]

Your Giants beat Atlanta.

[tubebender]

I did a Freep search for your name and here you are. Look FH, I will not be able to sleep nights until you and yours move back to California where you will be safe. Please don't worry about our 7.+ quakes here in Humboldt even if we have three in 24 hours. Hell we didn't even rate any coverage outside the Tri County area. I guess we don't have enough Blondes here.

[SE Mom]

LOL! Never enough rice:)

[SnarlinCubBear]

Haven' read the entire thread; if no one has posted yet, here's my fav. eQuake website:

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

[fish hawk]

I was there for the earthquakes in the fifties and sixties but thought I was safe from them over here. LOL

[janetjanet998]

guy just called local station on CNN and said 700 feet of his property fell into the ocean...

[debg]

I just made chili and rice. Enough for everyone! mai e 'ai

[mom4kittys]

Recipe? Or is it just that--chili and rice?

[mewzilla]

I don't think they can with any precision. I wonder if the news outlet was either totally confused (which I can relate to), or if it was talking about something else being predicted by an earthquake swarm. If this constitutes a swarm. I wish the reporter had repeated what he heard verbatim. Might have helped.

[mewzilla]

guy just called local station on CNN and said 700 feet of his property fell into the ocean...

Holy cats. Well, on the bright said he should get a break on his property taxes. Yikes. Glad he's okay.

[WestCoastGal]

He was a Dr.

Said his house is now 10 feet from the ocean bluff.

Oy, I'm so glad I don't live in California anymore.

[Phsstpok]

The effects of a collapse of Cumbra Vieja, the volcanic island in question in the Canary islands (in this case on the island of La Palma) is still very much under debate. The big problem is that there's no direct measurements that are reliable to predict this sort of thing. The closest thing we have is a big thrust earthquake in the Washington State area around 1700 of the type that hit Indonesia a couple of years ago that caused a very destructive tsunami in Japan which was previously unexplained until researchers made the connection recently. The problem is even the most massive earthquake is going to move the earth a maximum of about 15 feet and that dictates the maximum wave size of a resulting Tsunami.

A tsunami from a big landslide is predicted to have up to 3,000 foot wave height initially, which could result in a wave height of up to 100 meters when it hits the US coast (more likely 15 to 25 feet max, which is still much larger than any recorded tsunami and something that would wipe out the entire east coast nearly totally for several mile inland). That's what the argument is about. The evidence that gets cited most often involves a big landslide generated tsunami in Alaska not that long ago that is supposed to have been 1700 feet high initially, sweeping one fishing boat out of the affected bay over the land and trees of a submerged peninsula.

They can look at the other Hawaiian islands underwater terrain and see the results of previous "volcanic island slumps" and calculate from the mass of those things how big the tsunamis would have been.  From low end to high end they're all big humping waves that we don't want to have to deal with.  The stuff I've seen on the big crack that is now on the big island of Hawaii indicates that it's a huge portion of the island and will generate a "splash" that will virtually wipe the west coast region of the US off the map for several miles inland, certainly all of the Los Angeles basin, the SF bay area and all of the California coast outside the coastal hills.  That includes places such as Santa Barbara, Malibu, Pacifica, Half Moon Bay, Monterey, etc.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Local news coverage in Hawaii (on CNN) just had on a doctor who said that he was in danger of losing his home because some of the bluff had fell into the ocean, and his house had been BUILT JUST 10 FEET FROM THE BLUFF'S EDGE. Then talking with people in line at stores to get supplies since the power is out, and a mom who had run out of insulin for her daughter (what the hell is Mom of the Year doing with just a few hours supply of insulin?) The tourists I can understand, but Hawaii is vulnerable to hurricanes, so there is zero excuse for not being able to handle a few days without power. I imagine next the media will show interviews with people with their fingers in sockets waiting for the power to come back on...