Just in case anyone’s wondering/worrying/(hoping?), I’m a couple miles from the beach, with several high dunes in between.
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Just in case anyone’s wondering/worrying/(hoping?), I’m a couple miles from the beach, with several high dunes in between.
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Newport & Malibu are closed today.
CNN fail.
They’ve been showing a shot of a beach in Kauai all morning waiting for the tsunami. They just cut to it and after spending the whole morning watching waves crashing on the beach, there is suddenly no water. As they are talking, the water started flowing in. Not in a wave, but a surge, back up to the shoreline. It got up to the shore and started rushing back out. Again, just pull/push, not crashing.
Meanwhile they are talking about waiting to see waves from the tsunami and cut away from the shot. Uh, that WAS a wave from the tsunami! You bozos caught it live and didn’t even notice it
Good to hear.
The aftershocks to this thing are massive.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/140_40_eqs.php
Was there a tsunami here (SoCal)? I can’t be bothered to google or, yerch, turn the tube on. I always figured it was less likely here because the shore is so steep-to.
Carl,
I heard something on the radio about a hotel being flooded in the Northwest (Washinton or Oregon) as water moved ashore up to 500′ inland.
Our Northwest Cable News channel had lots of video of boats being swept out to sea in Cali.
Carl,
The waves are just now reaching southern California (about noon), but fortunately it looks like the energy is mostly spent…
Carl,
I should also add the topography of Southern California, with the offshore islands and coastal orientation to the south and southwest instead of towards Japan are also a factor versus Oregon and Northern California which are more oriented towards Japan. So its difficult for the waves to get compressed and concentrate energy.