PDIII Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Twitter reports of 10 m wave anomalies Warnings all over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthArlington101 Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Maybe there will be something small but if I’m reading things right the threat window for Kodiak (city that would get hit first) has passed and nothing much has happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ice1972 Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 That impact angle into the west coast isn’t ideal for big event.....still should be watched Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 A bit of a dramatic subtitle and opening post to this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stradivarious Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 7.9 earthquake deserves nothing but respect... just go to Valdez and see... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Looks like they've canceled all tsunami advisories except for an advisory of waves 1 foot or less in Alaska Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ice1972 Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 32 minutes ago, Stradivarious said: 7.9 earthquake deserves nothing but respect... just go to Valdez and see... Are you referring to 1964? That was 9.2 and lasted for 4-5 minutes.....it was closer to the coast....much closer....not 150 miles offshore....the tsunami threat today was the bigger deal and it was clear pretty quickly even that was no big deal....they cancelled the warnings and watches fairly quickly....the quake must have not vertically displaced the sea floor significantly enough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 It sounds like this was not a subduction event/a plate flinging upward. Instead it sounds like it was a slipping plate horizontally. At least from what I've seen on Twitter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 1 hour ago, Stradivarious said: 7.9 earthquake deserves nothing but respect... just go to Valdez and see... Sure it does. But having a subtitle that says "Looks to be significant" and then posting about Twatter claims of 10m waves is a bit dramatic, don't you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastCoast NPZ Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 2 hours ago, Stradivarious said: 7.9 earthquake deserves nothing but respect... just go to Valdez and see... That's not the topic of the thread, it was the tsunami.... and the dire tone. From what I've heard the quake was centered 15 miles deep. Too deep to generate vertical thrust needed to generate a significant tsunami. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacindc Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 3 hours ago, mattie g said: Sure it does. But having a subtitle that says "Looks to be significant" and then posting about Twatter claims of 10m waves is a bit dramatic, don't you think? If you were awake at 5 am and were watching Twitter with all of the tsunami warnings all the way down the US coast and video of the folks in Kodiak fleeing for higher ground with sirens going off, at that moment it did appear to be pretty significant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 3 hours ago, Kmlwx said: It sounds like this was not a subduction event/a plate flinging upward. Instead it sounds like it was a slipping plate horizontally. At least from what I've seen on Twitter. so whirlpools instead. got it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 1 hour ago, H2O said: so whirlpools instead. got it. Username checks out. You'd know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 19 minutes ago, jacindc said: If you were awake at 5 am and were watching Twitter with all of the tsunami warnings all the way down the US coast and video of the folks in Kodiak fleeing for higher ground with sirens going off, at that moment it did appear to be pretty significant. It's all semantics, I suppose. Would have been better to say "could be significant." But don't mind me, I tend to overanalyze the manner in which words are used by people to convey their thoughts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskimo Joe Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 So where is the mega tsunami at? Thoughts and prayers needed yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 3 hours ago, Eskimo Joe said: So where is the mega tsunami at? Thoughts and prayers needed yet? Not enough instability or enough sun or clearing in the sky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stradivarious Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 On 1/23/2018 at 8:39 AM, ice1972 said: Are you referring to 1964? That was 9.2 and lasted for 4-5 minutes.....it was closer to the coast....much closer....not 150 miles offshore....the tsunami threat today was the bigger deal and it was clear pretty quickly even that was no big deal....they cancelled the warnings and watches fairly quickly....the quake must have not vertically displaced the sea floor significantly enough Yes, the 1964 One was way bigger, and this one was farther off shore. But in the hour during and after the event, it is not clear what if any or how big a tsunami will occur. I was in Valdez in September, and saw the old city. (Valdez was abandoned, and the whole city moved 4 miles inland after the 1964 Quake, everybody had to move, the old city is still there and it is a ghost town). So, this one was initially called an 8.2 Quake, which is a major event. You may want to go play on the beach right after, but I’ll stand by my post. The tsunami potential should be treated with respect... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stradivarious Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2018/01/25/the-case-of-the-phantom-tsunami-why-an-alaska-buoy-showed-a-big-wave-that-wasnt-there/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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