Japan - Tsunami warning issued after 8.3 magnitude earthquake

AP News Alert | January 12, 2007

[HAL9000]

TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's Meteorological Agency issues tsunami warning for country's east coast after magnitude 8.3 earthquake in northern Japan.

[burzum]

Good luck Guam. One of the things that worried me when I worked in the Navy is whether a tsunami could suck out the caison of a drydock. I hope the people of Guam remain safe and the Naval Base there suffers no damages.

[Global2010]

Fox 12 Portland Or just reported the tsunami wave was 1ft high in Japan and Alsaka.

Thank God looks like it is over.

Musta been that home canned tuna sanwhich I made.....tsunami squausher. : )

[djf]

Wow!

[honolulugal]

Oooh. That's not a good sign. Thanks for the info.

[burzum]

OK, well said then. I agree that tide stations are for scientists to determine the probable effects, not for casual observers and so we shouldn't be trying to get too much information out of that data without being properly trained.

[Liberty Valance]

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[sasha123]

Good info, thx

[Strategerist]

Thank God looks like it is over.

Like I was saying the nature of the wave propagation likely did not send the highest waves to the western Aleutians or to Northeast Japan - those locations are parallel to the generating fault and it's possible waves may be higher in locations perpendicular to the fault.

[bnelson44]

won't even hit Alaska for a few more hours

But Japan seems OK

[Global2010]

Ohhhh I didn't know that.
Hence my tag line.

[Mount Athos]

it already hit shemya alaska, only a few inches high though

[jdm]

Looks like it's going to be okay:

Small tsunami hits Japan

[Fitzcarraldo]

[bnelson44]

oops, missed that:

SHEMYA ALASKA .06CM/0.2 FT

[Global2010]

Mahalo.

Big FReeper List for the Islands.

[Strategerist]

One tidbit for the many people that enjoy seeing scientists get egg on their faces...

This portion of the Kuril Trench where these two great earthquakes in November and then tonight occured was SPECIFICALLY singled out by a paper in Science in 2003 as an area where due to the nature of the geology of the trench in that area, it could not generate large earthquakes.

http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~simons/pdfs/21_song_simons_combined.pdf


They even made a specific "negative" prediction that such quakes would never occur there, in 2004.

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004AGUFM.S43D..08S


Oops.

[Fitzcarraldo]

[wodinoneeye]

"To: HAL9000
It's Bush's fault.

By not signing the Kyoto treaty and sending more troops to kill terrorists in Iraq, he is making the earthquake gods angry and they are lashing out in fury.

If only Pelosi or Hillary were president, then the earth would be at peace"


That would likely be the "Peace of the Grave", would it not ????

[Global2010]

bump 4no wave

[djf]

Hey!!! That there might not be gummint approved info!!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1766368/posts