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If you are on a Pacific Coastline please move to higher ground. For those in Japan, I hope you are safe.
There was a monster earthquake in Japan. 8.9!
Please get to a safe area.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110311/ap_on_re_as/as_japan_ear...
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For those on a Pacific Coast and those in Japan
That means that a humongous tidal wave will inundate everything in the oceans until blocked by ice or land.
May Your Light Forever Shine
May Your Light Forever Shine
My prayers
For all those affected, or who may be affected, I pray God (or the deity of your preference) looks out for you.
Karen J.
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
TV will concentrate on a few specaular vids and miss the big ...
picture, duh! Sofar they barey have said WHERE in Japan the quake was centered.
BUT the thing to remember is these disasters affect PEOPLE.
That and I KNOW what moving water can do, though in a minor way and if I was in a potential tsunami area I would get the hell out.
Way back in the Boy Scouts we were whitewater rafting on the upper Wolf River, between Lily and Langlade WI if you must know. We stopped to try and remove an aluminum canoe that was wrapped around a rock and a hazard to other boaters. The river in that moderate rapids -- class one or two out of five -- was no more than two feet deep. Yet the adults with us could barely stand against the current which was by definition less that 16MPH, the max water can flow without breaking apart except under unusual circumstances. As it was it was a great struggle to break it free even using a human chain. This was clear, clean water and as I said two feet or so in depth.
So when they say California will get a four to six foot tsunami and Hawaii a six foot + those are very dangerous and deadly waves.
Add in that they come as trains of multiple waves, are more like a sheet than a wave in that they may be six feet deep but might stretch a mile back and that they pick up a lot of debris. Do you want to be hit by a boat, a car or a tree moving 30mph or faster?
This is not something to gawk at this is something to respect and stay well high away from.
Good luck guys and gals in its path.
John in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa
Location
In the sea just offshore of the city of Sendai, so our lunchtime news reports. They are talking of an 8.9 earthquake, the strongest ever registered in Japan and one of the strongest ever. The Tsunami is estimated to be 10m (~33 feet) high near the Japanese coast.
Penny
NO EMERGENCY on the west coast
From the tsunamis in Taiwan and Hawaii, the waves will be much lower than was feared. Merely high, directional tides.
Michelle
Good to hear but stay tuned and listen
Even with the ocean warning sensors it pays to pay attention.
Good so far for California if the reports you mentioned hold up.
Plus these tsunami can be mild one place and devastaing just down the road so to speak. All depends on the underwater structure. The Japanese meaning for Tsunmi isn't *Harbor Wave* for no good reason.
John in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa
Too true
"Large and strange waves" was what one newsman warned for British Columbia. I would think it applies to the rest of the west coast.
Just stay off the beaches, shores and tidal flats for a few hours.
Michelle
I spent most of the morning
trying to locate my brother. He's retired Navy, living in Japan. Last I heard he lived N. of Tokyo. But he recently went back to work as a contractor on the US Navy base, which I think is near Yokohama. It's around a land mass from the epicenter.
He finally got a text message to his daughter a few minutes ago. He's sitting shivering in his car still at the base, but okay. I doubt he'll make it home today though, he would have to drive past Tokyo to get home. Large parts of the country are without power at the moment, and they have shut down several nuclear power plants for safety reasons.
I read that when the tsunami hit Hawaii, they only saw 2-3ft waves, but oddly, when it reached Indonesia, it was only 4". I imagine the direction and power of the tsunami is related to just how the land masses moved under the ocean, perhaps all those aftershocks had some dampening effect or something.
Still, pray (if you are so inclined) for those hundreds hurt or killed. I'm thankful my brother is okay.
Hugs
Carla Ann
Second earthquake
A second earthquake, magnitude 6.6 I believe, just rocked Nagano, Japan again moments ago. They're saying that this was a completely new earthquake in itself, and not just an aftershock, according to Headline News.
Monster Earthquakes
Not to make light of this very real and horrible tragedy, but...
is it just me, or is anyone else picturing various sorts of giant
radioactive creatures about to burst up out of the ground over there?
~~hugs, Laika
What borders on stupidity?
Canada and Mexico.
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Ultraman
That was who always saved them when I lived in the Far East
Am watching CNN as I write
Am watching CNN as I write this, and so far three morons in California have been swept away because they decided they just had to go down to the beach and watch the waves. Sadly, because of their own stupity, they have now placed others lives in danger, (Coast Guard) as they go out to look for them. Don't know if one of the three was the California Highway Patrol officer (off-duty) who said he was and some others were going surfing because of the "great waves". Stupid is as Stupid does!!
They just lifted the warning
where I live, Pacifica, California. Luckily the increase of water didn't do any damage here because it was low tide when it hit. I did notice, from a safe dsitance, that the waves were hitting the bottom of the fishing pier but that's something that happens every year sunami or not. I was watching the late news last night and couldn't believe what I was seeing. I can't imagine what those people are going through. They're in my prayers, Arecee
Better go and keep your
Better go and keep your fingers crossed they find a way to get the scramed nuclear plants' cooling pumps fed with power again, else we're facing a radiant future.
Waves
I dd have a horrible Twin Towers moment, when they showed a car trying to do a 180 to run from the waves, and he or she was making a real mess of it, and...they cut away. Too much of this is a result of the modern 'cameras everywhere' society, and I have seen more than enough deaths* to want it on TV.
*One death is more than enough to witness. I have been unlucky, several times.