Plucky 0 Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 I just saw the headlines saying a 6.5 foot tsunami is heading for the Pacific Coast of Japan after an 8.1 eq hit the Kurils. I can't find much information on it at this point. Take care and be safe! Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 yeah on the telly big tsunami warning.. about 2 hours away?? Link to post Share on other sites
farquah 0 Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 All going off on TV, NHK repeating there emergency warnings. But no info of tsunami having arrived yet. Link to post Share on other sites
Plucky 0 Posted November 16, 2006 Author Share Posted November 16, 2006 Fox and CNN are saying that it is supposed to hit after 9:10PM. It is saying this for both Hokkaido and Honshu but nothing more specific. That's in about 40 minutes, correct? Link to post Share on other sites
snosurf 0 Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 Wax up the boards and get out there! Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 Oh shit, this looks bad. 2m for the orange, 0.5m for the yellow. Link to post Share on other sites
eskimobasecamp 0 Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 woah Link to post Share on other sites
moloneb3 0 Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 Is a 2m Tsunami big (this may sound dumb but I am 1.83m??) Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 More here; http://disaster.yahoo.co.jp/1163595304/meteo.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/tsunami/index.html Arrival times of tsunami on the right column. But since the arrival time has passed for Hokkers and there's no news on Japanese websites yet, it may be safe to assume that nothing's happened (?) Link to post Share on other sites
sunrise 0 Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 Hmmmm, a couple more minutes before it passes chiba Link to post Share on other sites
moloneb3 0 Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 Ah, are these predictions accurate like the shinkansen???? You could probably set your watch by them!!! Link to post Share on other sites
sunrise 0 Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 fjef is still alive in chiba Link to post Share on other sites
sunrise 0 Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 no snorkels needed Link to post Share on other sites
Kumapix 0 Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 10 to 40cm for the first wave. Link to post Share on other sites
frannyo 2 Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 Did much happen there in the end_? Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 nope, some small ripples that didn't do much. Hawaii got hit a bit though. Link to post Share on other sites
sunrise 0 Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 it did? Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 yep, a reasonable tsunami hit the coast, flooding a car park, and sucking a woman through a hole in a sea-wall of a pool she was swimming in (minor injuries). Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 Weird how it turned out to be only a 40cm wave, I would have thought normal waves would be bigger than that anyway. Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 yeah but the point is not the height, but the sheer mass of water moving as a slab in one direction. That was what caused the damage in the SE asia tsunami more than the height. 500m to 1km of water suddenly rushing in one direction as a slab can be pretty devastating, even at only a meter or so. Link to post Share on other sites
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