BajaNomad

Tsunami (tidal wave) alert cancelled!

David K - 6-14-2005 at 09:31 PM

All the cable channels have been going crazy here in Oceanside... a 7.4 earthquake hit off the northern California coast tonight... the alert was for all of the west coast... including Baja!

No sign of the tsunami so alert cancelled...

Quake

roundtuit - 6-14-2005 at 09:40 PM

Earth quake was 91 miles wsw of Cresent City. Aprox 250 miles west of me. 7.0 on scale. Never felt it here. :?::?:

BajaNomad - 6-14-2005 at 09:44 PM

TO - TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEM PARTICIPANTS IN
ALASKA/BRITISH COLUMBIA/WASHINGTON/OREGON/CALIFORNIA
FROM - WEST COAST AND ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
SUBJECT - TSUNAMI WARNING BULLETIN - FINAL
BULLETIN NUMBER 2
ISSUED 06/15/2005 AT 0409 UTC

...THE TSUNAMI WARNING AND WATCH STATUS IS CANCELED FOR
CALIFORNIA - OREGON - WASHINGTON - BRITISH COLUMBIA - AND
ALASKA...

EARTHQUAKE DATA
PRELIMINARY MAGNITUDE - 7.4
LOCATION - 41.4N 125.6W - 85 MILES NW OF EUREKA-CA.
300 MILES NW OF SAN FRANCISCO-CA.
TIME - 1851 ADT 06/14/2005
1951 PDT 06/14/2005
0251 UTC 06/15/2005

A SMALL TSUNAMI WAS OBSERVED AT THE FOLLOWING SITES
WATER LEVELS REMAIN NORMAL AT ALL COASTAL SITES. NO WAVE
BEEN DETECTED.

EVALUATION
NO TSUNAMI DANGER EXISTS FOR ALASKA - BRITISH COLUMBIA -
WASHINGTON - OREGON OR CALIFORNIA. HOWEVER SOME AREAS MAY
EXPERIENCE SMALL SEA LEVEL CHANGES. AS LOCAL CONDITIONS
CAN CAUSE A WIDE VARIATION IN TSUNAMI WAVE ACTION THE ALL
CLEAR DETERMINATIONS MUST BE MADE BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES.

http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/message.txt

roundtuit - 6-14-2005 at 09:49 PM

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/125-41.html

7.0 2005/06/14 19:50:54 41.329N 125.863W 10.0 146 km (91 mi) WSW of Crescent City, CA
What gov should we believe