BillP
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TSUNAMI WARNING
No details on exactly what areas are covered, 8.0 quake in the Pacific near the Solomon Islands.
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David K
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Thanks... 
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BillP
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Looks like no warning for us on the west coast yet.
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/
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No, it is for Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and Australia, it was an 8.0 in the Solomon Islands. I just told my son via Skype to head towards higher
ground, he is in Sydney.
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Ateo
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There are tons of low lying islands in the area. Hopefully everyone is OK and there is no tsunami.
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Just read this on the event:
SYDNEY (AP) — A tsunami alert has been issued for several South Pacific islands after a strong earthquake struck near the Solomon Islands.
It wasn't yet known if a tsunami was generated. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says it issued a warning based on an evaluation of the earthquake.
The U.S. Geological Survey says the 8.0-magnitude quake struck Wednesday 50 miles west of Lata, in the Solomon Islands, at a depth of 3.6 miles.
Josephine Mae, a police official in the Solomon's capital city of Honiara, said she had not felt any shaking.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says the tsunami warning is in effect for the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Tuvalu, New
Caledonia, Kosrae, Fiji, Kiribati, Wallis and Futuna. A tsunami watch is in effect for American Samoa, Australia, New Zealand and eastern Indonesia.
Lots of Cortez sailing visitors are in that area now. Good luck to all, afloat and ashore.
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BillP
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WEAK53 PAAQ 060225
TIBAK1
PUBLIC TSUNAMI INFORMATION STATEMENT NUMBER 2
NWS WEST COAST/ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER PALMER AK
625 PM PST TUE FEB 5 2013
...THIS IS A TSUNAMI INFORMATION STATEMENT FOR ALASKA/ BRITISH
COLUMBIA/ WASHINGTON/ OREGON AND CALIFORNIA...
EVALUATION
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* A TSUNAMI HAS BEEN GENERATED THAT COULD POTENTIALLY IMPACT
THE AREAS LISTED ABOVE.
* THE WEST COAST/ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER IS INVESTIGATING
THE EVENT TO DETERMINE THE LEVEL OF DANGER.
* MORE INFORMATION WILL BE ISSUED AS IT BECOMES AVAILABLE.
* THIS EARTHQUAKE HAS THE POTENTIAL TO GENERATE A DESCTRUCTIVE
TSUNAMI IN THE SOURCE REGION.
PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS
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* MAGNITUDE 8.0
* ORIGIN TIME 1613 AKST FEB 05 2013
1713 PST FEB 05 2013
0113 UTC FEB 06 2013
* COORDINATES 10.9 SOUTH 165.1 EAST
* DEPTH 21 MILES
* LOCATION SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
OBSERVATIONS OF TSUNAMI ACTIVITY - UPDATED
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TIME OBSERVED MAX
SITE OF MEASUREMENT TSUNAMI HEIGHT
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LATA WHARF SOLOMON ISL 0131 UTC 02-06 03.4FT
HEIGHT - OBSERVED MAX TSUNAMI HEIGHT IS THE WATER LEVEL ABOVE THE
TIDE LEVEL AT THE TIME OF MEASUREMENT.
NEXT UPDATE AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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* MESSAGES WILL BE ISSUED HOURLY TO KEEP YOU INFORMED OF THE
PROGRESS OF THIS EVENT.
* REFER TO THE INTERNET SITE WCATWC.ARH.NOAA.GOV FOR
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
* PACIFIC COASTAL REGIONS OUTSIDE CALIFORNIA... OREGON...
WASHINGTON... BRITISH COLUMBIA AND ALASKA SHOULD REFER TO THE
PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER MESSAGES AT PTWC.WEATHER.GOV.
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Link to quake map
Hopefully the link works the same for everyone
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
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I thought this was going to be a post about Nomads with high waist-flood length "tsunami warning" style pants. Carry on Nomads.
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I click on the link 2 posts above several times a day, and have been noticing all these 4.6 to 6.3 quakes in that region over the last few days. Even
did a search on Lata island just yesterday with a Google earth Flyaround. Was wondering if they were foreshocks.
Perhaps the 8.0 was a foreshock.
Just yesterday I noted a bunch of small 2.5 quakes equidistant from Baja to Northern California.
Insert maniacal laughter here.
Lata Island Quakes
There has been 31 aftershocks of 4.8 or bigger since the 8.0
[Edited on 2-6-2013 by landyacht318]
[Edited on 2-6-2013 by landyacht318]
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http://weather.yahoo.com/small-tsunami-hits-solomons-other-w...
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Three miles deep is extremely shallow. If that fault is a slip strike there is less danger than a subduction event. But the real danger in tsunamiland
is a quake causing a massive underwater landslide on a steep slope. The Japanese have an amazing (expensive) array of hundreds of buoys that can radio
via satellite instantly the presence of a mid-ocean quake caused ripple. I cannot imagine a sizable tsunami event going unannounced to geologists and
governments.
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