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- EddiePotato, on 09/30/2009, -0/+10People are confusing a tsunami with a normal wave. A typical 10 foot wave is relatively short measured front to back by the time it rises up and starts to break. It gives up its limited energy quickly and falls back to the sea. Whereas a tsunami can be very long and holds a much, much greater volume of water and energy. It effectively raises the local sea level for a period of time, engulfing anything near the shore that's less than 10 feet above sea level.
- noknockers, on 09/30/2009, -0/+6we're talking about a 10 ft high wave that's 100+ft thick. It's a huge 10ft high surge, not a little wave.
- Hnnnnnghhh, on 09/30/2009, -0/+5Video of aftermath
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co_o1-FSirs
bonus for having o_o in the url. - noknockers, on 09/30/2009, -0/+3I hope more people read your comment, i'm getting really sick of all the '10ft high wave is nothing...blah blah'. But people dont realise it's a 10ft high surge, maybe 100+ft thick, just running everything down. It's also moving a lot faster than a normal wave.
- vroom101, on 09/30/2009, -0/+2"PAGO PAGO, American Samoa -- Towering tsunami waves spawned by a powerful earthquake swept ashore on Samoa and American Samoa early Tuesday [29 September 2009], flattening villages, killing at least 34 people and leaving dozens of workers missing at devastated National Park Service facilities. . . . The quake, with a magnitude between 8.0 and 8.3, struck around dawn about 20 miles below to ocean floor, 120 miles (190 kilometers) from American Samoa, a U.S. territory that is home to 65,000 people, and 125 miles (200 kilometers) from Samoa. Mike Reynolds, superintendent of the National Park of American Samoa, was quoted as saying four tsunami waves 15 to 20 feet high roared ashore soon afterward, reaching up to a mile inland. Holly Bundock, spokeswoman for the National Park Service's Pacific West Region in Oakland, Calif., said Reynolds spoke to officials from under a coconut tree uphill from Pago Pago Harbor and reported that the park's visitor center and offices appeared to have been destroyed . . ."
Via "Quake triggers tsunami in the Samoas, killing 34" at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_pacific_earthquake - vroom101, on 09/30/2009, -0/+2"Highest tides expected near Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo as tsunami advisory prompts L.A. beach closures" posted on 29 September 2009 at 5:54 pm (PST): http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/09/high ... (latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/09/highest-tides-expected-on-santa-barbara-san-luis-opisbo-coast-as-tsunami-advisory-prompt-la-beach-cl.html)
- IamNOTmrT, on 09/30/2009, -0/+2Really? 100 people dead and counting. A tiny isolated country who's economy depends on tourism get's most of it's coastal infrastructure wiped out. And to that you say surfs up.
I wish people with nothing worthwhile to contribute would stop posting brainless cliches like this. - noknockers, on 09/30/2009, -0/+2we're talking about a 10 ft high wave that's 100+ft thick. It's a huge 10ft high surge, not a little wave.
- CourageWulf, on 09/30/2009, -0/+2We're on advisory here in San Diego. Supposed to hit hard sometime tonight, only like 5 footers though.
- MrSlumberjack, on 09/30/2009, -0/+1Death toll is 141 and counting...
http://www.repubblica.it/2009/09/sezioni/esteri/te ... - spiderman0505, on 09/29/2009, -0/+1Scary stuff
- readacook, on 09/30/2009, -0/+1Dugg for correct use of temblor. /grammarnazi
- NOD32user, on 09/30/2009, -0/+1Looks like it trashed everything beach-side with water going inland up to about 100 meters.
It's actually a busy place there for big tremors. They had a 4.6 nearby just this last Monday at lat:-19.7161 lon:-177.5347 (depth of 401.60 km so for sure nobody would have noticed) and there's maybe a couple of hundred earthquakes showing for the close neighborhood in Google Earth. - vroom101, on 09/30/2009, -0/+1"Samoa tsunami warning: 'They won't cope'" by Marissa Calligeros: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/they-wo ... (www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/they-wont-cope-20090930-gbs2.html)
- vroom101, on 09/30/2009, -0/+1Photo -- "Christopher Moore of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration looked at projected tsunami travel times at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach, Hawaii. (Many tsunami warnings were later canceled.)": http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/09/29/world ... (www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/09/29/world/30tsunami.1.395-inline.ready.html)
Via: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/world/asia/30tsu ... (www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/world/asia/30tsunami.html) - MrSlumberjack, on 09/30/2009, -0/+1Actually, they were 15-20ft high.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-f ... - wachris, on 09/30/2009, -0/+1That's shocking
- MrSlumberjack, on 09/30/2009, -0/+1http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8281956.st ...
Idiot. - KingRocket, on 09/30/2009, -0/+1Cool story bro.
- MrSlumberjack, on 09/30/2009, -0/+1Unimpressive? Shows how much you know. Pics of the devastation:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8281956.st ...
...and by the way, it was four 15-foot tsunamis. - MisterEThoughts, on 09/30/2009, -0/+1Poor people!
- friday1970, on 09/30/2009, -0/+1A you f'ing kidding me that a news agency posted a hail storm video for a tsunami?
- vroom101, on 09/30/2009, -0/+1". . . New Zealander Hamish Nead was out surfing when the tsunami hit. He says the reef was sucked dry in front of his eyes. . ."
Via "Australian girl killed in tsunami" at http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/30/2701 ... (www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/30/2701157.htm) - inactive, on 09/30/2009, -0/+1Americans are fatter.
- CJDesign, on 09/30/2009, -0/+1terrible news....you have to feel for the poeple of samoa and american samoa as this must have been like something out of a bad horror movie
- mcphilip, on 09/30/2009, -1/+1Tsunami funraiser time! Who's with me?
-Michael Scott - iDoraemon, on 09/30/2009, -1/+1Oh no. :( I hope this doesn't affect their cookie production. I love their cookies.
- Benjerama, on 09/30/2009, -1/+1Maybe some of those deaths came from this video? Hopefully not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79aoAtlZ2lU&fea ...
From this article:
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/art ... - anumv4ever, on 09/30/2009, -0/+0oohhhhhhhhhhhhhh..........
- qazws, on 09/30/2009, -3/+2Cowabunga Dudes!!!
- canvashinder, on 09/30/2009, -7/+2Surfs up.
- Gibletoid, on 09/30/2009, -6/+110 feet from trough to peak.
The trough portion doesn't hit land, it's a void. The part above sea level was 5 feet, unless you think the entire wave, top to trough, was above sea level.
You need to turn on your sarcasm detector as well, I would employ subpar labour for any of my sand building endeavours. - cCPanda, on 09/30/2009, -8/+3 10 feet seems really unimpressive to me. I have only lived on the coast for a few years though so what do I know.
- Gibletoid, on 09/30/2009, -10/+310 feet? More like a TsuNOTme.
So a 5 foot wave actually, as no coastline has ever been overrun by a Tidal Trough. My sandcastles withstand worse, and they are poorly constructed, using cheap unskilled labor, and subpar sand. - jmdwinter, on 09/30/2009, -11/+1I'm off to Surfer's Paradise. Who's with me?!
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