Not to worry; it was just a sea hag.

Feathers everywhere.

Australia is gonna be pissed if the tsunami launches any more job-seeking Kiwi's onto their continent.

The seas were angry that day

Tsunami warning on pretty much every low-lying Pacific island that's getting swallowed up by rising sea levels as it is.

This is not going to be pretty.

Gosling: Tsunami warning on pretty much every low-lying Pacific island that's getting swallowed up by rising sea levels as it is.

This is not going to be pretty.

That will teach them to be brown and poor.

On the plus side, maybe Sarah will be washed away!

libranoelrose: I hope the mimes are OK.

ftfy

the convention just started there.
apparently no one has called in yet to say what is happening...or they did call, but since they are mimes, they didn't say much.

From http://ptwc.weather.gov/ptwc/text.php?id=pacific.TSUPAC.2013.02.06.014 9">http://ptwc.weather.gov/ptwc/text.php?id=pacific.TSUPAC.2013.02.06 .014 9

SEA LEVEL READINGS INDICATE A TSUNAMI WAS GENERATED. IT MAY HAVE
BEEN DESTRUCTIVE ALONG COASTS NEAR THE EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER AND
COULD ALSO BE A THREAT TO MORE DISTANT COASTS. AUTHORITIES SHOULD
TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION IN RESPONSE TO THIS POSSIBILITY. THIS
CENTER WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR SEA LEVEL DATA TO DETERMINE THE
EXTENT AND SEVERITY OF THE THREAT.

It's times like these that I am happy to live 6700 feet above sea level.

Good luck, 8.0 is a biggie.

/geologist

 

Why do some BIG EARTHQUAKES cause salamis and some don't?

There's been dozens of earthquake-induced salami warnings since the big one in Japan. Why do most turn out to be false alarms? Of the top of my head:

** Exponential scale and all that. A 7.0 earthquake is way way smaller than an 8.0 earthquake.
** The shape and gradient of the sea bed near the earthquake.
** Secret military technology. Nothing to do with earthquakes.

Why only the Christmas day salami of 2004 and the recent one in Japan.

I didn't feel anything here.

5 quakes/aftershocks (nothing smaller than 5.6) in the past 36 minutes.

At last most of the places listed in the warning don't have that much population compared to some areas that are tsunami prone.

Just because you lose, doesn't mean you have to flip the table.

Big Ramifications: Why do some BIG EARTHQUAKES cause salamis and some don't?

There's been dozens of earthquake-induced salami warnings since the big one in Japan. Why do most turn out to be false alarms? Of the top of my head:

** Exponential scale and all that. A 7.0 earthquake is way way smaller than an 8.0 earthquake.
** The shape and gradient of the sea bed near the earthquake.
** Secret military technology. Nothing to do with earthquakes.

Why only the Christmas day salami of 2004 and the recent one in Japan.

For one, because it's a log scale. Both the Japanese and the Boxing Day quakes were pushing 9.0.

Big Ramifications: Why do some BIG EARTHQUAKES cause salamis and some don't?

There's been dozens of earthquake-induced salami warnings since the big one in Japan. Why do most turn out to be false alarms? Of the top of my head:

** Exponential scale and all that. A 7.0 earthquake is way way smaller than an 8.0 earthquake.
** The shape and gradient of the sea bed near the earthquake.
** Secret military technology. Nothing to do with earthquakes.

Why only the Christmas day salami of 2004 and the recent one in Japan.

This may be the most Fruedian post ever commited on Fark.

I wish we just had a simple 1-100 scale for earthquakes.

Take care, everyone.

MemeSlave: Gosling: Tsunami warning on pretty much every low-lying Pacific island that's getting swallowed up by rising sea levels as it is.

This is not going to be pretty.

That will teach them to be brown and poor.

Maybe it's just God punishing them for eating people.

20 miles deep according to the NOAA. Not a serious problem if that's true.

Big Ramifications: Why do some BIG EARTHQUAKES cause salamis and some don't?

There's been dozens of earthquake-induced salami warnings since the big one in Japan. Why do most turn out to be false alarms? Of the top of my head:

** Exponential scale and all that. A 7.0 earthquake is way way smaller than an 8.0 earthquake.
** The shape and gradient of the sea bed near the earthquake.
** Secret military technology. Nothing to do with earthquakes.

Why only the Christmas day salami of 2004 and the recent one in Japan.



Oh you.

6.6 just now.

Zeno-25: [assets.nydailynews.com image 485x377]

Take care luck, everyone.

Bathia_Mapes: Link with more info here

Well if Faux news is reporting it at least we know it's not true. Move along citizens.

/hot

There was an 8.0 in 2007 off of the Solomon Islands that caused an 10 foot tsunami, which resulted in 2 death. The islands are pretty mountainous and there are only half a million people so it's damage will probably be diminished thankfully. .
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Strong_earthquake_near_Solomon_Islands,_ ts unami_warnings_issued