Tsunami watch issued for Hawaii following large quake near Kuril Islands

Hawaii News Now ^ | March 24, 2020 | HNN Staff

[kaehurowing]

This on top of the State being locked down for COVID-19.

[Inyo-Mono]

A little past 6pm in Hawaii right now.

[tomkat]

.. said that earthquakes at the strength of the one in the Kuril Islands “generally have not caused huge tsunamis historically."

She prolly shouldn't have said that . . .

[Paladin2]

High ground has long been valued by “the worriers”.

[Paladin2]

Depends of just exactly how the dirt moved.

[grey_whiskers]

*PING*

Tsunami warning for Hawaii, no joke.

WTF is up with all this at once?

[Revel]

That was my first question.

Thanks.

[tomkat]

Warning now cancelled per your link .. as of 1800 local.

[kaehurowing]

I understand it was just canceled, thank Jesus.

Just today as I was having to deal with the lockdown I was thinking, what if we had a hurricane on top of this (weather has been terrible here for weeks, lots of very high winds and rain). I didn’t think about a tsunami, but it’s in the same category. It really doesn’t take much to take the islands down.

[OrangeHoof]

Laura Kong, director of the International Tsunami Informational Center,...

If she's a Democrat, can we call her "Donkey" Kong?

[LucyT]

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Ping!

Thanks, Grey_Whiskers.

[Yardstick]

*chuckle*

[mylife]

Ummm its Russia

[Jane Long]

PTL!

Thanks for the update.

[Battle Axe]

It's not the antipodal of the caldera at Yellowstone.

[goldstategop]

Thucydides was the first ancient historian to connect undersea earthquakes to tsunamis.

The late Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus has a vivid description of the Alexandria tsunami of 365 CE which devastated the eastern Mediterranean.

They’re common in the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire.

[roadcat]

WTF is up with all this at once?

I was discussing that with my wife yesterday. Saying there are billions of locusts destroying crops in Africa, rampant disease, tornadoes etc. That all we need are earthquakes and tsunamis to round out this year. We have relatives in Hawaii but they are safe on a hillside community. Wife says she knew 2020 would be a bad year. Wish she was proactive on that and would have sold our stock, but no.

[gleeaikin]

quake ping

[NorseViking]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DpbTOozA9lg
A video from a small coastal town on a Northern tip of Sakhalin Island, the closest population center to the epicenter.
First wave was like a foot and a half high minutes ago.

[UNGN]

New Moon strikes again.