# Tsunami travelling across the Pacific **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 27, 2010, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631 "2010-02-27T08:42:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631/21 "2010-02-27T15:13:50Z")
There was also a 7+ 'quake in [Japan](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35607824/ns/world_news-asiapacific/) last night, about 10 hours befor the one in Chile. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631/22 "2010-02-27T15:23:08Z")
Good luck to you Epic, and everyone else on the Islands. Scary stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631/23 "2010-02-27T15:23:27Z")
So… the Pacific has just turned into a giant bathtub with monster sloshes? I really, really hope the death toll on this is under 6 digits, but clearly this goes far beyond either Santiago or Chile ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631/24 "2010-02-27T15:23:29Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > That’s such a daft thing to say. Mighty astute of you to notice that. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631/25 "2010-02-27T16:20:46Z")
So, the tsunami should be hitting Hawai’i now. Hope it’s not too bad… ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631/26 "2010-02-27T16:21:19Z")
> [@An\_Arky](#): > > So, the tsunami should be hitting Hawai’i now. Hope it’s not too bad… Actually not for another five hours. 11:18 Hawaiian time; 4:18 Eastern time. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631/27 "2010-02-27T16:45:31Z")
Do we have any Chilean Dopers? ---
**Author:** ![Waxwinged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@Waxwinged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waxwinged)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631/28 "2010-02-27T16:59:49Z")
Lovely, more natural disasters. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631/29 "2010-02-27T17:05:46Z")
I remember watching a documentary about a Tsunami in Hawaii, in Hilo, I don’t recal when, but they had a Tsunami warning and it had the opposite effect. Everyone ran down to the beach to see the Tsunami. And then it didn’t come on time, so people ignored it and then it came later and killed a bunch of people ---
**Author:** ![pudytat72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@pudytat72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pudytat72)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631/30 "2010-02-27T17:51:14Z")
They are saying the wave to hit Hilo, HI could be 8 feet. That worries me, then I remembered they were surfing 40 foot waves back in December. I have not heard from my son (in the Navy stationed at Pearl Harbor) but the best guess is that he is on his ship going out to sea to ride it out. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631/31 "2010-02-27T17:57:59Z")
CNN had the death toll at 122 last I looked, and expected to rise. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631/32 "2010-02-27T18:10:41Z")
At least with tsunamis, you have a chance of getting a warning. Get high, coastal Dopers! (Uh, geographically - what you do while you’re up there is your own business. 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631/33 "2010-02-27T18:19:27Z")
luck to you all. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631/34 "2010-02-27T18:19:59Z")
The warning for Australia suggests that waves could strike along the NSW coast from 0845 Sunday morning (ie in just over three hours’ time), and people are being warned to stay away from beaches. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631/35 "2010-02-27T18:25:30Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > Do we have any Chilean Dopers? Probably, but power is out in a lot of places in Chile right now, and even if it’s not they might well have more pressing concerns at the moment. I’m sure they’ll check in over the next few days. > [@Markxxx](#): > > I remember watching a documentary about a Tsunami in Hawaii, in Hilo, I don’t recal when, but they had a Tsunami warning and it had the opposite effect. Everyone ran down to the beach to see the Tsunami. And then it didn’t come on time, so people ignored it and then it came later and killed a bunch of people I think, after the video from the Boxing Day Tsunami, people take the warnings to stay away from the beach in these circumstances a lot more seriously. ---
**Author:** ![pudytat72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@pudytat72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pudytat72)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631/36 "2010-02-27T18:28:31Z")
I have just learned that a Tusnami wave is not a “surfable” wave, so the comparison of surfing waves and Tsunami waves is not true. Thank goodness for the internet-I can watch the TV news in Hawaii!! ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631/37 "2010-02-27T18:33:06Z")
Hopefully everyone will get out harms way. This tsunami should be well documented considering the considerable advanced warning. How about New Zealand? From what I am seeing on maps, they should be the first heavily populated place that is affected. That said I have no idea what the topography of the east coast of New Zealand is like. I have a step brother who lives in New Zealand, but I have no idea where he is at on the island. Go to high ground everyone. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631/38 "2010-02-27T18:48:02Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > At 8.8 on the Richter Scale( although I prefer the more valuable “Ricker” Scale, which measures the bowel relieving capacity of an experience!), this quake was almost a tenth less powerful than the biggest one they’ve ever had, which occured in 1960. Those who experienced that probably didn’t even notice it. Nit: geologists do not use the Richter scale any more, although the press sometimes still says “Richter” erroneously. They use the [moment magnitude scale](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_magnitude), which has values similar to the Richter scale except at very high values. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631/39 "2010-02-27T18:56:08Z")
I’m watching some video from the Hawaiian news, and a geophysicist said Alaska will be hit first, and then Hawaii. How does that work? ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631/40 "2010-02-27T18:59:07Z")
I live in Buenos Aires, there are reports of people who felt the earthquake, I slept like a baby, did not feel anything. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631.md?page=3)