Tsunami Warning for Hawaii, First Wave at 11:19 a.m. HST, 10-15 Foot Waves; Advisory for West Coast

Saturday, February 27, 2010 | Kristinn/ NWS

[kristinn]

Prayers up for all affected.

[bayliving]

Today is turning out to be a very bad day already.

I think I will just go back to bed.

And yes, PRAYERS for ALL that will be affected by this earthquake and now tsunami.

[kristinn]

Evacuation orders being announced for Hawaii starting at 6 a.m. HST.

[hennie pennie]

Thank you so much for posting this, I hadn’t even realized there was a major South American earthquake overnight.

[SamAdams76]

There have been hundreds of tsunami warning posted to the forum over the past 10 years and only one of them ever turned out to amount to anything (the 2004 Christmas one in the Indian Ocean).

However, this one definitely has my attention.

[hennie pennie]

H E A D S U P

State of Hawaii and West Coast USA tsunami warning.

[alfa6]

You up high?

Best Wishes

alfa6 ;>}

[kristinn]

Yes, this sounds very serious.

Folks in Hawaii have plenty of time to prepare. Even those who wake up in the morning should have time to run for the hills.

[hennie pennie]

*ping*

[kristinn]

FYI.

[ASA Vet]

Jack! Surfs Up! Grab your board!

[Erik Latranyi]

I’d hate to be on a flight to Honolulu right now........

[Eye of Unk]

Until it passes its also a day to hopefully ignore all the birther and healthcare trolls, heck I’m even seeing trolls on the religion threads.

A good day for Obama to hide, after all its not like he had any interest in Hawaii, right?

[BallyBill]

and to think, I got up swearing because of a little more snow overnight. I’ll take the snow and you guys get to high ground, help will be on the way.

[randita]

Hawaii has an extensive tsunami warning system with sirens placed all over the islands. This was done after the devastating 1946 tsunami.

[raybbr]

I wonder how many “reporters” will be standing on the beaches around the world to get that one moment of fame?

[SamAdams76]

It's about 3AM in Hawaii right now. If I interpret this correctly, the first wave is due to hit just over 8 hours from now. This would be around 3:20PM East Coast time (11:20AM Hawaii time).

Fortunately this appears to give residents plenty of time to get away from the coast.

[MaryFromMichigan]

Prayers up!
Bad news day.
Just read that the 8.8 earthquake in Chile has killed 76 people so far.

[Buddygirl]

Watch the animals to see if they start running for higher places. They have a sixth sense about tsunamis. Also, if the water starts to recede unusually, way out from the shore, run for higher places.

[Eye of Unk]

If I remember right wasn’t it Hilo that had the worst tsunami impact back then?