Little one.
Little one.
WEPA43 PAAQ 151714
TIBWCA
TO - TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEM PARTICIPANTS IN
ALASKA/BRITISH COLUMBIA/WASHINGTON/OREGON/CALIFORNIA
FROM - WEST COAST AND ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
SUBJECT - TSUNAMI INFORMATION
BULLETIN NUMBER 1
ISSUED 10/15/2006 AT 1714 UTC
...THIS TSUNAMI INFORMATION STATEMENT IS FOR ALASKA/ BRITISH
COLUMBIA/ WASHINGTON/ OREGON AND CALIFORNIA ONLY...
NO - REPEAT NO - WATCH OR WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE STATES
AND PROVINCES LISTED ABOVE.
EVALUATION
BASED ON MAGNITUDE AND HISTORIC TSUNAMI INFORMATION THE EARTHQUAKE
WAS NOT SUFFICIENT TO GENERATE A TSUNAMI DAMAGING TO CALIFORNIA/
OREGON/ WASHINGTON/ BRITISH COLUMBIA OR ALASKA. IN COASTAL AREAS
OF INTENSE SHAKING LOCALLY GENERATED TSUNAMIS CAN BE TRIGGERED BY
UNDERWATER LANDSLIDES.
PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS
MAGNITUDE - 6.5
TIME - 0908 ADT OCT 15 2006
1008 PDT OCT 15 2006
1708 UTC OCT 15 2006
LOCATION - 19.9 NORTH 155.9 WEST
- HAWAII
THE PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER WILL ISSUE MESSAGES
FOR HAWAII AND OTHER AREAS OF THE PACIFIC.
THIS WILL BE THE ONLY STATEMENT ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT BY THE
WEST COAST AND ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER UNLESS ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION BECOMES AVAILABLE. REFER TO THE INTERNET SITE
WCATWC.ARH.NOAA.GOV FOR MORE INFORMATION.
$$
Didn't feel it up here on the peninsula, though...
There isn't much staff at NEIC on weekends or nights. I suspect the USGS number is too low - it's computer generated, and has NOT been reviewed by a human being - I think it mistakenly broke one big quake into two smaller quakes.
I have some friends who just got back from vacationing in Kona. wow
6.5 is little?
Big enough. Latest I've seen is over 6 on the Richter. Or maybe that was a second shock? I'm just catching up to this now.
It's on the big island? Isn't that where the big fissure is? The quake shows on the western side of the island, but I'm remembering that the fissure is on the eastern side. At some point the prediction is that there will be a "long run out avalanche" from this island as the quarter to one third of the island beyond the fissure slumps down into the ocean, just like what has happened at all of the other Hawaiian islands, and that will result, according to theory, in a mega tsunami, waves 1,000 feet high when they hit the west coast of the US. Or so the theory goes.
I always look at earthquakes in Hawaii and try to figure out if they are precursors to that kind of phenomenon. I'm in Tennessee but have family in Washington state, the bay area and Los Angeles.