# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**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, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631/61 "2010-02-27T22:15:11Z")
[http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/Global/category.asp?C=176904](http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/Global/category.asp?C=176904) ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631/62 "2010-02-27T23:07:22Z")
Hawaii looks like it was pretty much a non-event. How about elsewhere? ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631/63 "2010-02-28T00:34:19Z")
The talking head sounded down right disappointed when they announced that the Tusnami surge had hit Santa Monica and was measured at: (wait for it) Are you ready?) 2.1 feet. :eek: 😃 Whoopie fucking do ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631/64 "2010-02-28T00:50:59Z")
If this report is correct, it was in Chile where the tsunami came in full force: [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704231304575090723421658124.html](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704231304575090723421658124.html) > [@](#): > > Eye-witnesses along the coastal region of Maule, near the quake’s epicenter, said houses “simply disappeared.” A woman at a shelter in Iloca Maule said, “when the waves came, we ran for the hills.” ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631/65 "2010-02-28T01:14:39Z")
Images of the before and after devastation at Juan FernĂĄndez, better known outside of Chile as the Robinson Crusoe Island: [http://picasaweb.google.com/lester.ah/Tsunami#5443068199307238930](http://picasaweb.google.com/lester.ah/Tsunami#5443068199307238930) Luckily, the warnings were in effect and many did go to higher ground. ---
**Author:** ![fuzzypickles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9d8465/32.png) [@fuzzypickles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzypickles)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631/66 "2010-02-28T01:20:55Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > The talking head sounded down right disappointed when they announced that the Tusnami surge had hit Santa Monica and was measured at: > > (wait for it) > > 2.1 feet. :eek: 😃 > Whoopie fucking do Earlier today, Fox News broke into Hawaii coverage to announce that the sea level at Long Beach, CA had receded to the point where boats could no longer dock at the harbor. Then they realized it was just an unusually low tide. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631/67 "2010-02-28T01:59:21Z")
> [@fuzzypickles](#): > > Then they realized it was just an unusually low tide. :smack: A reporter on MSNBC asked someone “What time does the tide usually go out?” I’m going “Dummy!” but I suppose tides aren’t something people pay attention to if they don’t live on a coast. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631/68 "2010-02-28T08:32:15Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Hawaii looks like it was pretty much a non-event. How about elsewhere? Much the same in Australia. Norfolk Island reported a 50cm surge in sea levels. Along the east coast the increases were in the 15-20cm range. There were no reports of damage. ---
**Author:** ![Ritter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ritter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ritter)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631/69 "2010-03-01T06:35:21Z")
Tsunami fever is mostly over now but just wanted to post a quick report from Christchurch, New Zealand - on the east coast facing Chile. We were lucky that the tsunami hit during a low tide. The water in Lyttelton Harbour sucked out about 100m further than the usual low tide, leaving fish flapping about in the wet sand and dinghies stranded on their sides. It was equivalent to a very high tide, but at the usual low tide time. If it hit during a high tide, it would have been much like the May 23rd, 1960 tsunami (also from a Chilean earthquake, 9 something on the Richter scale I believe) which left boats on the main road to Sumner Beach and drowned a flock of sheep. It’s genius that the people who go to the beach to watch the tsunami will be the first victims if there are any. Survival of the fittest! ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631/70 "2010-03-01T09:12:22Z")
I was too lazy to wander down to the beach and watch the tsunami come in, but today I rode my bike downtown to watch the hockey game. We had a reported two foot tsunami here in Santa Barbara. I could see that it breached the ice plant barrier and made it half way across the parking lot at Ledbetter beach, our most western exposed beach. A super major gnarley storm will breach the entire parking lot, so I don’t think it was that big of a deal. The authorities build a large berm around the boat yard every winter to protect it from storms and the water level went up about 4 feet up it which is probably 5 feet above the high tide level, so it was probably pretty cool to watch. Had this happened during the summer, probably every single catamaran (60 or so) on the beach would have been swept out to sea [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tsunami-travelling-across-the-pacific/530631.md?page=3)