That doesn’t make too much sense to me, especially looking at the map that **EvilTOJ **linked.
One thought that had been running through my head was if there might be a plane filled with surfers crossing the Pacific trying to meet up with the wave to surf it all the way across the ocean.
Also a tsunami out in the deep ocean is only a couple of feet high, and sailors rarely feel them. It’s not until they get close to the coast that they become a massive wall of water.
Isn’t that because the water is so deep? The amount of water displaced is small in relation to the deep waters but is magnified exponentially when the water is shallow?
Just heard on CNN:
“…they move at 450 to 600 mph”.
Holy. Fuck.
Even if the wave was “surf-able”, it travels at hundreds of miles per hour. that would be quite a rush to ride a surf board at 500 mph. Talk about X-games.
ETA…What gaffa just said
Looking at this map there are some really big after-shocks. Including one that is significantly away from the big one’s epicenter.
Could it be that the Tsunami moves faster throught the somewhat shallower coastal areas until it reaches Alaska. TO get to Hawaii it has to move through deep ocean, displacing a lot more water, which means, I would think that it isn’t moving as fast.
Yes… it’s the energy released by the quake that is travelling radially outward. When the ocean is miles deep, that energy is diffused through the entire thing. (and 8.8 is a real whopper. About 80 times the magnitude of the 7.0 Haiti quake, and ~800 times as much energy released)
I just got a Special Weather Statement. My bay isn’t listed, but the one 25 miles down the coast might expect a wave of 0.46 feet.
Well, yes. I was asking more from the point of view of wondering whether there are any particular Doper friends that we should be worried about.
I’m trying to follow New Zealand because I have a friend who just arrived there a day or so ago for a vacation…
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/tsunami-wave-measured-nz-mainland-3384488
CNN has a really terrible picture supplied by Skype, while MSNBC, The Weather Channel and Fox News have decent satellite pictures.
Has Time-Warner screwed the pooch on this one?
I’m watching CNN, too. They said they’re getting reports of the tsunami hitting an island off of New Zealand, and that that marks the 12-hour point from the earthquake event. Hawaii is more at the 15-hour mark.
Better feed on The Weather Channel, eh? I’ll go check.
This is their bread and butter, while I get the feeling the bean counters at Time Warner decided that paying to have an reporter stationed in Hawaii was a waste of money.
On MSNBC at the moment, there are people on the beach!
People, standing on the beach. Waiting for the tsunami. Seriously.
FoxNews had a camera shot of some people on cliff overlooking the ocean. It is somewhere in Hawaii but they gave no clue on what island it was on. I could tell my the shadows that the ocean was to the southeast.
Cmon Fox tell us where the cameras are at.
Feed from Waikiki showed a couple of surfers paddling blithely out into the surf an hour or so ago.
watching it live on Hawaii TV, water moving in and out. amazing
Link?