Tsunami Warning for AK, British Columbia, US East Coast and US West Coast

[bananas]

Source: Google Public Alerts

Locations: Coastal areas between and including the north tip of Vancouver Island, British Columbia to Cape Decision, Alaska (85 miles SE of Sitka); Langara Island, British Columbia; Sitka, Alaska; Elfin Cove, Alaska; Tofino, British Columbia; Craig, Alaska; Neah Bay, Washington; Seaside, Oregon; Charleston, Oregon; Westport, Washington; Yakutat, Alaska; Crescent City, California; Seward, Alaska; Kodiak, Alaska; Valdez, Alaska; Cordova, Alaska; Sand Point, Alaska; Fort Point, New Hampshire; Dutch Harbor, Alaska; Santa Barbara, California; Homer, Alaska; San Pedro, California; Cold Bay, Alaska; Adak, Alaska; La Jolla, California; Shemya, Alaska; St. Paul, Alaska

15 minutes ago – West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center


How likely: Observed
How soon: Immediate
How severe: Extreme

A tsunami Warning is now in effect which includes the coastal areas of British Columbia and Alaska from the north tip of Vancouver Island, British Columbia to Cape Decision, Alaska (85 miles SE of Sitka). - Event details: Preliminary magnitude 7.1 (Mwp) earthquake / Lat: 52.863, Lon: -131.942 at 2012-10-28T03:04:11Z Tsunami warnings mean that a tsunami with significant widespread inundation is expected, or occurring. Warnings indicate that widespread dangerous coastal flooding accompanied by powerful currents is possible and may continue for several hours after the initial wave arrival.

Estimated arrival times and wave heights

Show all 26 locations

Langara Island, British Columbia 9:16 PM GMT-07 (53 minutes from now)
Sitka, Alaska 8:42 PM GMT-08 (1 hour, 19 minutes from now)

Recommended actions

Recommended Actions: People in low-lying coastal areas should be alert to instructions from their local emergency officials. If in a tsunami warning coastal area, move inland to higher ground. Next update and additional information: This message will be updated in 30 minutes or sooner if the situation warrants. The tsunami message will remain in effect until further notice. Refer to the internet site wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov

for more information.

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Read more: http://www.google.org/publicalerts/alert?aid=e03a6e895721fff1&hl=en&gl=US&source=web

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I just went to do a google search and this was at the top of the page.

[regnaD kciN]

1. New Hampshire???

[GP6971]

3. Strange. n/t

[happyslug]

4. Nothing from the Federal Tsunami Center

http://ptwc.weather.gov/

Something for the West Coast, but nothing for the Atlantic.

[onenote]

7. I believe there is a Fort Point in California. The NH reference may be a typo/mistake.

[regnaD kciN]

12. I was thinking that, too...

[Cobalt Violet]

9. Sounds like Romney Geography

No way could that be and not have warnings for Maine and Mass.

[Canuckistanian]

13. Must be a mistake

Prince Rupert is on the West Coast

[dballance]

5. Um, how do you manage to pin tectonic plates that far out moving

To climate change? I could see pinning Sandy it. Or earthquakes near tracking sites. But not one so far out.

[PaulaFarrell]

30. Here is a very good explanation of why we should expect more earthquakes

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/26/why-climate-change-shake-earth

"The signs are that this is already happening. In the detached US state of Alaska, where climate change has propelled temperatures upwards by more than 3C in the last half century, the glaciers are melting at a staggering rate, some losing up to 1km in thickness in the last 100 years. The reduction in weight on the crust beneath is allowing faults contained therein to slide more easily, promoting increased earthquake activity in recent decades. The permafrost that helps hold the state's mountain peaks together is also thawing rapidly, leading to a rise in the number of giant rock and ice avalanches. In fact, in mountainous areas around the world, landslide activity is on the up; a reaction both to a general ramping-up of global temperatures and to the increasingly frequent summer heatwaves."
...

[Bette Noir]

6. According to this, there was a quake, but no tsunami warning.

http://ptwc.weather.gov/ptwc/?region=1&id=pacific.TIBPAC.2012.10.28.0320

[bananas]

10. Tsunami warning from www.tsunami.gov

Some of the websites are down, this one is up and has the warning text:

http://www.tsunami.gov/text.php?id=alaska.TSUAK1.2012.10.28.0334

000
WEAK51 PAAQ 280334
TSUAK1

BULLETIN
PUBLIC TSUNAMI MESSAGE NUMBER 2
NWS WEST COAST/ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER PALMER AK
834 PM PDT SAT OCT 27 2012

THE MAGNITUDE IS UPDATED TO 7.7. THE WARNING ZONE REMAINS THE
SAME.

...THE TSUNAMI WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR THE COASTAL
AREAS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA AND ALASKA FROM THE NORTH TIP OF
VANCOUVER ISLAND BRITISH COLUMBIA TO CAPE DECISION
ALASKA/LOCATED 85 MILES SE OF SITKA/...

...THIS MESSAGE IS INFORMATION ONLY FOR COASTAL AREAS OF
CALIFORNIA - OREGON - WASHINGTON AND BRITISH COLUMBIA FROM
THE CALIFORNIA-MEXICO BORDER TO THE NORTH TIP OF VANCOUVER
ISLAND BRITISH COLUMBIA...

...THIS MESSAGE IS INFORMATION ONLY FOR COASTAL AREAS OF
ALASKA FROM CAPE DECISION ALASKA/LOCATED 85 MILES SE OF
SITKA/ TO ATTU ALASKA...

A TSUNAMI WARNING MEANS... ALL COASTAL RESIDENTS IN THE WARNING
AREA WHO ARE NEAR THE BEACH OR IN LOW-LYING REGIONS SHOULD MOVE
IMMEDIATELY INLAND TO HIGHER GROUND AND AWAY FROM ALL HARBORS AND
INLETS INCLUDING THOSE SHELTERED DIRECTLY FROM THE SEA. THOSE
FEELING THE EARTH SHAKE... SEEING UNUSUAL WAVE ACTION... OR THE
WATER LEVEL RISING OR RECEDING MAY HAVE ONLY A FEW MINUTES BEFORE
THE TSUNAMI ARRIVAL AND SHOULD MOVE IMMEDIATELY. HOMES AND
SMALL BUILDINGS ARE NOT DESIGNED TO WITHSTAND TSUNAMI IMPACTS.
DO NOT STAY IN THESE STRUCTURES.

ALL RESIDENTS WITHIN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR
INSTRUCTIONS BROADCAST FROM THEIR LOCAL CIVIL AUTHORITIES.
EARTHQUAKES OF THIS SIZE ARE KNOWN TO GENERATE TSUNAMIS.

AT 804 PM PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME ON OCTOBER 27 AN EARTHQUAKE WITH
PRELIMINARY MAGNITUDE 7.7 OCCURRED 25 MILES/40 KM SOUTH OF
SANDSPIT BRITISH COLUMBIA.
EARTHQUAKES OF THIS SIZE ARE KNOWN TO GENERATE TSUNAMIS.
IF A TSUNAMI HAS BEEN GENERATED THE WAVES WILL FIRST REACH
LANGARA ISLAND BRITISH COLUMBIA AT 916 PM PDT ON OCTOBER 27.
ESTIMATED TSUNAMI ARRIVAL TIMES AND MAPS ALONG WITH SAFETY RULES
AND OTHER INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND ON THE WEB SITE
WCATWC.ARH.NOAA.GOV.

TSUNAMIS CAN BE DANGEROUS WAVES THAT ARE NOT SURVIVABLE. WAVE
HEIGHTS ARE AMPLIFIED BY IRREGULAR SHORELINE AND ARE DIFFICULT TO
FORECAST. TSUNAMIS OFTEN APPEAR AS A STRONG SURGE AND MAY BE
PRECEDED BY A RECEDING WATER LEVEL. MARINERS IN WATER DEEPER
THAN 600 FEET SHOULD NOT BE AFFECTED BY A TSUNAMI. WAVE HEIGHTS
WILL INCREASE RAPIDLY AS WATER SHALLOWS. TSUNAMIS ARE A SERIES OF
OCEAN WAVES WHICH CAN BE DANGEROUS FOR SEVERAL HOURS AFTER THE
INITIAL WAVE ARRIVAL. DO NOT RETURN TO EVACUATED AREAS UNTIL AN
ALL CLEAR IS GIVEN BY LOCAL CIVIL AUTHORITIES.

PACIFIC COASTAL REGIONS OUTSIDE CALIFORNIA/ OREGON/ WASHINGTON/
BRITISH COLUMBIA AND ALASKA SHOULD REFER TO THE PACIFIC TSUNAMI
WARNING CENTER MESSAGES FOR INFORMATION ON THIS EVENT AT
PTWC.WEATHER.GOV.

THIS MESSAGE WILL BE UPDATED IN 30 MINUTES OR SOONER IF
THE SITUATION WARRANTS. THE TSUNAMI MESSAGE WILL REMAIN
IN EFFECT UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION STAY TUNED
TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... YOUR LOCAL TV OR RADIO STATIONS... OR SEE
THE WEB SITE WCATWC.ARH.NOAA.GOV.

$$

[deadbrokediva]

8. I don't mind Alaska being taken out

especially if Sarah Palin is at home, but please leave my beautiful Seaside, Oregon alone.

[Arctic Dave]

11. Hey now.

Don't be hatin on all of us.

[olddad56]

15. what a terrible thing to say. Asshole

[pacalo]

16. ...

[Kurovski]

18. This is highly unusual behaviour for an American, let alone a Dem.

if ever anyone would use the delete post feature, you'd be the one.

[kardonb]

19. Don't mind

what mean spirited comment . There are a lot of great people living in AK , not only Palin . It is a beautiful place , peaceful and and welcoming . Obviously you have never been there , or you would not say such hateful things . Shame on you ,deadbroke !

[0rganism]

14. U.S. EAST coast? WTF?

I'm sorry, that makes no sense at all.

[Kurovski]

17. I used to live across the harbor from Westport, wa.

I'm not seeing anything on the tube. not on weather channel yet.

[Locut0s]

20. Luckily the region the quake struct in is very sparesly populated and...

and so are all the regions that would be affected by any potential tsunami, which isn't to say there is absolutely no danger. Nothing was felt here in Vancouver.

I'm more worried about our forceasted mega 8 or 9+ magnitude quake that will happen one day on the Cascadia fault. I wonder if this quake transferred any extra stress to it?

[Bluenorthwest]

38. Bite me. Thousands of people live in the West Coast tsunami zone

Real humans have died from tsunami on the West Coast of the US as recently as 2011. Crescent City CA was destroyed by a tsunami in 1964: 289 buildings and destroyed, 12 people were confirmed dead, over 100 were injured, and 30 city blocks destroyed.
A shockingly ill informed and calloused comment. Full of BS from BC.

[Hissyspit]

21. CBC News Alerts &#8207;@CBCAlerts Tofino residents being evacuated in wake of tsunami warning after 7.7 qu

CBC News Alerts ?@CBCAlerts
Tofino residents being evacuated in wake of tsunami warning after 7.7 quake, aftershocks on Haida Gwaii. Leave low-lying coastal areas.

[Hissyspit]

22. Michael van Poppel &#8207;@mpoppel Pacific Tsunami Warning Center: A tsunami has been generated that could

Michael van Poppel ?@mpoppel
Pacific Tsunami Warning Center: A tsunami has been generated that could cause damage along coastlines in Hawaii - http://tinyurl.com/97o4j3b

[bananas]

23. 10:44PM PDT THE ADVISORY HAS BEEN EXPANDED TO INCLUDE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND SOUTHERN OREGON.

http://www.tsunami.gov/text.php?id=alaska.TSUAK1.2012.10.28.0544


000
WEAK51 PAAQ 280544
TSUAK1

BULLETIN
PUBLIC TSUNAMI MESSAGE NUMBER 6
NWS WEST COAST/ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER PALMER AK
1044 PM PDT SAT OCT 27 2012

THE ADVISORY HAS BEEN EXPANDED TO INCLUDE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND
SOUTHERN OREGON.

...THE TSUNAMI WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR THE COASTAL
AREAS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA AND ALASKA FROM THE NORTH TIP OF
VANCOUVER ISLAND BRITISH COLUMBIA TO CAPE DECISION
ALASKA/LOCATED 85 MILES SE OF SITKA/...

...THE TSUNAMI ADVISORY IS MODIFIED TO INCLUDE THE COASTAL
AREAS OF CALIFORNIA AND OREGON FROM GUALALA POINT
CALIFORNIA/LOCATED 80 MILES NW OF SAN FRANCISCO/ TO
DOUGLAS-LANE COUNTY LINE OREGON/10 MILES SW OF FLORENCE/...

...THE TSUNAMI ADVISORY CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR THE COASTAL
AREAS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA FROM THE WASHINGTON-BRITISH
COLUMBIA BORDER TO THE NORTH TIP OF VANCOUVER ISLAND
BRITISH COLUMBIA...

...THIS MESSAGE IS INFORMATION ONLY FOR COASTAL AREAS OF
CALIFORNIA FROM THE CALIFORNIA-MEXICO BORDER TO GUALALA
POINT CALIFORNIA/LOCATED 80 MILES NW OF SAN FRANCISCO/...

...THIS MESSAGE IS INFORMATION ONLY FOR COASTAL AREAS OF
OREGON AND WASHINGTON FROM DOUGLAS-LANE COUNTY LINE
OREGON/10 MILES SW OF FLORENCE/ TO THE WASHINGTON-BRITISH
COLUMBIA BORDER...

...THIS MESSAGE IS INFORMATION ONLY FOR COASTAL AREAS OF
ALASKA FROM CAPE DECISION ALASKA/LOCATED 85 MILES SE OF
SITKA/ TO ATTU ALASKA...

A TSUNAMI WARNING MEANS... ALL COASTAL RESIDENTS IN THE WARNING
AREA WHO ARE NEAR THE BEACH OR IN LOW-LYING REGIONS SHOULD MOVE
IMMEDIATELY INLAND TO HIGHER GROUND AND AWAY FROM ALL HARBORS AND
INLETS INCLUDING THOSE SHELTERED DIRECTLY FROM THE SEA. THOSE
FEELING THE EARTH SHAKE... SEEING UNUSUAL WAVE ACTION... OR THE
WATER LEVEL RISING OR RECEDING MAY HAVE ONLY A FEW MINUTES BEFORE
THE TSUNAMI ARRIVAL AND SHOULD MOVE IMMEDIATELY. HOMES AND
SMALL BUILDINGS ARE NOT DESIGNED TO WITHSTAND TSUNAMI IMPACTS.
DO NOT STAY IN THESE STRUCTURES.

ALL RESIDENTS WITHIN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR
INSTRUCTIONS BROADCAST FROM THEIR LOCAL CIVIL AUTHORITIES.
A TSUNAMI HAS BEEN RECORDED.

A TSUNAMI ADVISORY MEANS THAT A TSUNAMI CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
STRONG CURRENTS OR WAVES DANGEROUS TO PEOPLE IN OR VERY NEAR
THE WATER IS EXPECTED. SIGNIFICANT WIDESPREAD INUNDATION
IS NOT EXPECTED FOR AREAS UNDER AN ADVISORY. CURRENTS
MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO SWIMMERS... BOATS... AND COASTAL
STRUCTURES AND MAY CONTINUE FOR SEVERAL HOURS AFTER THE
INITIAL WAVE ARRIVAL.

AT 804 PM PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME ON OCTOBER 27 AN EARTHQUAKE WITH
PRELIMINARY MAGNITUDE 7.7 OCCURRED 25 MILES/40 KM SOUTH OF
SANDSPIT BRITISH COLUMBIA.
THIS EARTHQUAKE HAS GENERATED A TSUNAMI WHICH COULD CAUSE DAMAGE
TO REGIONS IN A WARNING OR ADVISORY.
ESTIMATED TSUNAMI ARRIVAL TIMES AND MAPS ALONG WITH SAFETY RULES
AND OTHER INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND ON THE WEB SITE
WCATWC.ARH.NOAA.GOV.

MEASUREMENTS OR REPORTS OF TSUNAMI ACTIVITY

LOCATION LAT LON TIME AMPL
------------------------ ----- ------ ------- -----------
DART46419PT NW SEATTLE 48.8N 129.6W 0345UTC 00.2FT/00.07M
CRAIG AK 55.5N 133.1W 0427UTC 00.4FT/00.11M
PORT ALEXANDER AK 56.2N 134.6W 0410UTC 00.3FT/00.08M
WINTER HARBOUR BC 50.7N 128.3W 0402UTC 00.5FT/00.15M
SITKA AK 57.1N 135.3W 0424UTC 00.3FT/00.08M

TIME - TIME OF MEASUREMENT
AMPL - TSUNAMI AMPLITUDES ARE MEASURED RELATIVE TO NORMAL SEA LEVEL.
IT IS ...NOT... CREST-TO-TROUGH WAVE HEIGHT.
VALUES ARE GIVEN IN BOTH METERS/M/ AND FEET/FT/.

TSUNAMIS CAN BE DANGEROUS WAVES THAT ARE NOT SURVIVABLE. WAVE
HEIGHTS ARE AMPLIFIED BY IRREGULAR SHORELINE AND ARE DIFFICULT TO
FORECAST. TSUNAMIS OFTEN APPEAR AS A STRONG SURGE AND MAY BE
PRECEDED BY A RECEDING WATER LEVEL. MARINERS IN WATER DEEPER
THAN 600 FEET SHOULD NOT BE AFFECTED BY A TSUNAMI. WAVE HEIGHTS
WILL INCREASE RAPIDLY AS WATER SHALLOWS. TSUNAMIS ARE A SERIES OF
OCEAN WAVES WHICH CAN BE DANGEROUS FOR SEVERAL HOURS AFTER THE
INITIAL WAVE ARRIVAL. DO NOT RETURN TO EVACUATED AREAS UNTIL AN
ALL CLEAR IS GIVEN BY LOCAL CIVIL AUTHORITIES.

PACIFIC COASTAL REGIONS OUTSIDE CALIFORNIA/ OREGON/ WASHINGTON/
BRITISH COLUMBIA AND ALASKA SHOULD REFER TO THE PACIFIC TSUNAMI
WARNING CENTER MESSAGES FOR INFORMATION ON THIS EVENT AT
PTWC.WEATHER.GOV.

THIS MESSAGE WILL BE UPDATED IN 30 MINUTES OR SOONER IF
THE SITUATION WARRANTS. THE TSUNAMI MESSAGE WILL REMAIN
IN EFFECT UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION STAY TUNED
TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... YOUR LOCAL TV OR RADIO STATIONS... OR SEE
THE WEB SITE WCATWC.ARH.NOAA.GOV.

$$

[bananas]

24. tsunami sirens going off in Honolulu!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021649523

tsunami sirens going off in Honolulu!!!
just came on a 7:56 pm local time

[ellisonz]

27. Here's a taste of my facebook feed:

I'm in L.A but have many Hawaii friends -

"That is a LOUD ass siren."

"Tsunami sirens going off??"

"It seems chinatowns block party has just turned into an end of the world tsunami costume party, I'll see you all in hell and I'll be the guy dressed as dog the bountyhunter"

[Locut0s]

29. LOL those are funny. Hope everyone is safe though. I suspect that...

this will be a non event even for Hawaii, but still better safe than sorry.

[ellisonz]

31. Yeah I think this one is less scary than the Japan quake...

My sister lucked out an was at home and not at her job in an evacuation zone.

Time for in Hawaii

[Bluenorthwest]

39. 5 dead in CA from the tsunami you reference

So popcorn? To each his own....

[ellisonz]

40. Nothing wrong with a sense of humor about it...

...furthermore, from what I can find the people you are referencing were grossly irresponsible and approached the ocean despite knowing that a tsunami was imminent. Only one person on the West Coast appears to have died: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/14/dustin-weber-tsunami-dead_n_835236.html - Feel bad for his family, but his death was a result of his own folly.

[Kurovski]

25. CNN now reporting on the situation

"The real thing" is headed toward Hawaii.

[Fearless]

26. Average wave height .3ft

Meh.

http://www.google.org/publicalerts/url?rurl=&rsig=f85c8836a3b042b20a0d0eb4fdf856cd57040613

Also to the above ^^ That's CNN in a nutshell. Panic!

[Locut0s]

28. Is that as measured in the open ocean?

Cause even the largest tsunamis are only a few cm high in the open ocean. It's only when they reach landfall that their energy is compressed upward into a large wave.

[Fearless]

32. No, the measurment given on google for British Columbia

http://www.google.org/publicalerts/alert?aid=e03a6e895721fff1&hl=en&gl=US&source=web

[Locut0s]

33. I don't see a measurement there. Also they are forecastin a wave height of 3 to 7 feet for Hawaii...

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/27/quake-with-a-magnitude-of-7-7-strikes-off-canada-coast/

[ellisonz]

35. Hawaii stations are talking 6-7 foot in certain places (Hilo wink wink)

[Tx4obama]

34. Live stream link for Hawaii, below

Tsunami headed to Hawaii.

And an 'advisory' for Oregon, Northern California, British Columbia.



Here's a live stream link for HAWAII

Live TV Honolulu stream, below

http://www.khon2.com/content/mediacenter/livestream.aspx

[bucolic_frolic]

36. New Hampshire

begins the tsunami that's going to swamp Mitt!

[mainer]

37. US East Coast AND West Coast!

Wow, that's some nutty typo.

Seriously, the only way I can see this happening geographically is simultaneous earthquakes in the Pacific and the Atlantic. Or multiple volcanoes exploding everywhere in the globe.