Entire Pacific Basin Under Tsunami Warning
#1
Posted 27 February 2010 - 06:52 AM
#2
Posted 27 February 2010 - 07:14 AM
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Edited by IYB, 27 February 2010 - 07:21 AM.
#3
Posted 27 February 2010 - 07:31 AM
Oops - sorry about copyright violation. Just saw that. Adm. can remove post if they wish...
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Lets hope that Hilo doesn't get hit.
Did you ever walk into the old Huki-Lau in Reed's Bay and look at the wave height markers on the windows?
It could unfortunately be a test of the breakwall that was built after that Tsunami - to date as of yet untested.
Scary stuff indeed - guess the surfers will be out in droves though...
Edited by reddybuild, 27 February 2010 - 07:32 AM.
#4
Posted 27 February 2010 - 07:47 AM
No- but I was just reading about it. 63 killed. 460 buildings destroyed. Assuming I survive this one, I'll have to go take a look at the markers when I get a chance. Meantime the history of tsunamis in Hawaii shows more destructive activity than I'd realized.Did you ever walk into the old Huki-Lau in Reed's Bay and look at the wave height markers on the windows?
It could unfortunately be a test of the breakwall that was built after that Tsunami - to date as of yet untested.
>>>The record shows that damaging tsunamis from distant earthquakes reached Hawaii these years: 1837, 1841, 1868, 1869, 1877, 1883, 1906, 1918, 1923, 1933, 1946, 1957, and 1960. Other smaller tsunamis that caused no significant damage in Hawaii were generated by distant earthquakes in 1896, 1901, 1906, 1919, 1922, 1923, two in 1927, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1938, 1944, 1952, and 1964. In a period of 157 years, a damaging or destructive tsunami struck the Hawaiian Islands on the average of once in every twelve years.<<<
Just got word that at 6 AM local time, the evacuation sirens will be sounded here. It's 2:45 AM right now. D
Edited by IYB, 27 February 2010 - 07:49 AM.
#5
Posted 27 February 2010 - 08:12 AM
No- but I was just reading about it. 63 killed. 460 buildings destroyed. Assuming I survive this one, I'll have to go take a look at the markers when I get a chance. Meantime the history of tsunamis in Hawaii shows more destructive activity than I'd realized.Did you ever walk into the old Huki-Lau in Reed's Bay and look at the wave height markers on the windows?
It could unfortunately be a test of the breakwall that was built after that Tsunami - to date as of yet untested.
>>>The record shows that damaging tsunamis from distant earthquakes reached Hawaii these years: 1837, 1841, 1868, 1869, 1877, 1883, 1906, 1918, 1923, 1933, 1946, 1957, and 1960. Other smaller tsunamis that caused no significant damage in Hawaii were generated by distant earthquakes in 1896, 1901, 1906, 1919, 1922, 1923, two in 1927, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1938, 1944, 1952, and 1964. In a period of 157 years, a damaging or destructive tsunami struck the Hawaiian Islands on the average of once in every twelve years.<<<
Just got word that at 6 AM local time, the evacuation sirens will be sounded here. It's 2:45 AM right now. D
Rumor has it that before that Tsunami struck that Hilo Bay was virtually emptied, and people were running into the bay picking up floundering fish - yikes.
Then the water came in....Hilo was built much closer to the water at that time and there was of course no buoy system as of yet. Kind of crazy because in all
likelihood it will by all appearance look just like another day in Paradise later today until the water starts to rise. Be safe.
Edited by reddybuild, 27 February 2010 - 08:18 AM.
#7
Posted 27 February 2010 - 08:29 AM
Hilo Bay Webcam.
(still dark)
I know just where that museum is, and the street it is overlooking.
Part of the downtown section leading towards the Hamakua coast.
If we start seeing water from that vantage view it will not be good.
#8
Posted 27 February 2010 - 08:38 AM
We are still almost 8 hours from expected impact. The estimated size of the waves is actually known by authorities but they are saying they do not want to release that info because they don't want people to either panic or the opposite, to minimize the danger. They are only saying that the waves are expected to be "more than ten feet in some areas". I am in an area that can be considered "safe", by the way. Wasn't serious about "assuming we survive". Meantime, though, evacuation is being planned and coordinated, at least for now.Hilo Bay Webcam.
(still dark)
I know just where that museum is, and the street it is overlooking.
Part of the downtown section leading towards the Hamakua coast.
If we start seeing water from that vantage view it will not be good.
#9
Posted 27 February 2010 - 08:55 AM
#10
Posted 27 February 2010 - 09:07 AM
Thanks, Tekno. I don't, but interestingly, I am hearing advise right now on a local TV station that the very best thing you can do to protect your boat is to simply take it out to sea and wait it out there. When you are 1/4 to 1/2 mile out or more, you don't even feel the tsunami when it passes under you.....there will be a decent set of waves from this.....if you have a boat in the harbor Don pull it outta the water ASAP or go offshore a couple of miles with her and hope there is a harbor left to recover in.