Posted on 02/27/2010 7:05:36 AM PST by joinedafterattack
4:19 p.m. EST is the predicted time.
Its probably 20 FEET, the tsunami that hit Hilo before was around 35 feet and was generated by an earthquake also from S. America at near the same magnitude.
Not something to sneeze at though, it can very well be serious.
Release the BC!
5 hours from now.
That’s more like 66 feet, not 60.
The big concern is that the wave when it hits the southern coasts of the Hawai'ian Islands will be around 9-11 feet--but it's not just one short wave, but one long continuous surge that could last for several minutes. That right there could cause ENORMOUS damage to Waikiki Beach at minimum.
I’m wrong, it would be 6 hours from now or so, I’m at 6:21 Alaska, Hawaii would be 5:21am right now.
http://www.co.honolulu.hi.us/cameras/
Hawaii webcams clickable.
It’s about 1.1 yards per meter.
A bit early. Not expected for another 6 hours.
Whoever posted the 40 meter tsunami is posting rumors. Here is actual news report on Juan Fernandez Island
3 meters not 40
http://en.rian.ru/world/20100227/158031362.html
A 3-meter tsunami wave hit on Saturday the Robinson Crusoe island, the largest in the Chilean Juan Fernandez archipelago, following a powerful earthquake which struck Chile earlier in the day, the country’s president, Michelle Bachelet, said.
“A village on the island is half-flooded, people have been evacuated to higher elevations,” the president said, adding there had been extreme damage from the tsunami.
The 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit the Latin American country in the early hours of Saturday. The tremor occurred some 89 kilometers (55.3 miles) to the north of Chile’s second largest city Concepcion, some 341 kilometers (212 miles) from the capital of Santiago.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center put out a warning along the coastlines of Chile and Peru, and issued a tsunami watch for Colombia, Ecuador, Antarctica, Panama and Costa Rica.
Some 50 nations have been placed under a tsunami advisory. Areas of concern are the Hawaiian Islands, French Polynesia, Australia, and Japan. Russia’s Far Eastern region was also advised, but local emergency authorities have stated that the region is in no danger.
I thought I heard a prediction of six foot waves for Hawaii. And this from CNN:
“USGS geophysicist Victor Sardina said several tsunami waves had come ashore along the Chilean coast; the largest was recorded at 9 feet near the quake’s epicenter.”
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/27/chile.quake/index.html
I bet there will be at least one nut with a surfboard that will try to ride the wave.
CNN should not be scaring people with unsubstantiated crap. When the 9.5 struck Chile in 1960, a tsunami hit Hawaii, but was nowhere near that high........
A tsunami after the magnitude-9.5 quake that struck Chile in 1960, the largest earthquake ever recorded, killed about 140 people in Japan, 61 in Hawaii and 32 in the Philippines. That tsunami was about 3.3 to 13 feet (one to four meters) in height, Japan’s Meteorological Agency said.
3.28 feet per meter! 39.37” to the meter
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I heard on CNN that the tsunami will cause an increase in bank failures, home foreclosures, interest rates, swine flu cases and globull warming.
People are stating rumor not facts. The worst CNN can do is stoke fear. The 1960 quake was a 9.5 and the wave height was no more than 13 feet in Hawaii....
A tsunami after the magnitude-9.5 quake that struck Chile in 1960, the largest earthquake ever recorded, killed about 140 people in Japan, 61 in Hawaii and 32 in the Philippines. That tsunami was about 3.3 to 13 feet (one to four meters) in height, Japan’s Meteorological Agency said.
Probably more than one already waiting on the beaches of Hawaii.
Waikiki is facing the right direction if I remember correctly. The big island got hit worse in 1960, Hilo in particular
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