http://www.ustream.tv/channel/hitsunami

watching local news coverage from hawaii. interesting stuff.

2/27/2010 2:08:20 PM

Quote :

"MY BOYFRIEND IS DEFINITELY IN HAWAII RIGHT NOW, ON MAUI. IM SUPPOSED TO GO THERE TWO WEEKS FROM TODAY"

mine is on oahu

saw the news at 630am when i woke up and sent him a text. he usually goes surfing in the morning on the weekends and doesn't always watch tv. he went to the g-sto and said it was packed but hes just outside of the evac zone.

however, calls to him are wonky as shit and it takes 3-4 to get through. he thinks they'll lose power for a day or two.

i'm glad he's a a strong swimmer and not an idiot. also i'm glad he's out there working for the navy so they'll account for his ass if i can't

2/27/2010 2:10:09 PM

Quote :

"tsunamis aren't all that tall anyway. The 2004 one just kept coming and was only 1 or 2 feet tall in some of the places it devastated. Somoan one was a bit taller but more of the same."

Open ocean wave height =/= shore wave height

[Edited on February 27, 2010 at 2:10 PM. Reason : ]

2/27/2010 2:10:14 PM

Correct but the point I was making is that dwelling on height is not important for a tsunami that is more like a river that comes and comes and comes for a few minutes and the amount of water, not the height causes the damage.

2/27/2010 2:13:16 PM

Quote :

"a tsunami that is more like a river that comes and comes and comes for a few minutes"

keep going, i'm almost there

2/27/2010 2:14:15 PM

Quote :

" Location Lat. Lon. Time Amplitude ------------------------ ----- ------ ------- ----------- 74min Talcahuano C 36.7S 73.1W 0657UTC 1.84M/6.1FT 40min San Felix Ch 26.3S 80.1W 0832UTC 0.81M/2.7FT 57min Caldera Chil 27.1S 70.8W 0746UTC 0.52M/1.7FT 47min Coquimbo Chi 29.9S 71.3W 0902UTC 1.27M/4.0FT 78min Iquique Chil 20.2S 70.2W 0851UTC 0.30M/1.0FT 57min Antofagasta 23.3S 70.4W 0956UTC 0.46M/1.5FT 84min Ancud Chile 41.9S 74.3W 0943UTC 0.34M/1.1FT 30min Corral Chile 39.9S 73.4W 1012UTC 1.54M/5.1FT 56min Callao La Pun 12.1S 77.2W 1029UTC 0.66M/2.2FT Time - Time of measurement. Amp. - 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)."

http://ow.ly/1bYZN

2/27/2010 2:18:10 PM

a few minutes away from hawaii arrival...

2/27/2010 3:57:22 PM

STFU ALIAS

2/27/2010 4:02:11 PM

I saw this coming. You can only be Chile for so long before you start to shiver.


Ok. Lame joke.

But I'm glad they at least had better infrastructure than Haiti, though I wouldn't wish this on my worse enemy.

2/27/2010 4:03:44 PM

Pffft...I wish tsunamis on people all the time.

2/27/2010 4:05:05 PM

Pedros weather forecast.


Chile today
Hot tamale!

2/27/2010 4:07:22 PM

lol

some guy was paddling out

2/27/2010 4:07:40 PM

^ He was probably a little too stoked. Someone should have calmed him down.

2/27/2010 4:16:08 PM

^

2/27/2010 4:22:17 PM

holy crap... a friend of mine lives in chile and was actually camping on the beach an hour and a half sw of santiago when the quake hit. they had 17 people and left right after work on friday. the quake woke them up and was so strong they couldn't stand or even sit up, just had to lie in their tents and wait for it to stop.

as soon as it stopped they heard people shouting "tsunami!" (in spanish & english) and they scrambled up this huge cliff and were grabbing onto roots & anything they could to pull themselves up. they sat up there for 2.5 hours listening to the water come in.

after it was over they climbed down and found that their car had been swept 200ft or so from where they parked it and all the windows were busted out. they had to leave everything on the beach (surfboards, purses, tents etc) and only a few people had their cell phones actually on them when it happened.

they had to take 3 taxis back into santiago because none of the cab drivers wanted to get too far away from home. thats the last i heard, no idea if their homes are ok but holy fucking shit

also another friend of mine is down there visiting & traveling for a few months and he posted some pics of the apartment hes staying in

2/27/2010 4:26:19 PM

I bet that tsumani would be gnarly if you could catch the wave though...

2/27/2010 4:29:29 PM

^^

so you are saying that they will have one hell of a story to tell when they get home?

2/27/2010 4:33:03 PM

yeah, and prob for the rest of their lives

as long as you can beat the tsumani... being in a tent on the beach is prob the best place to be

2/27/2010 4:44:02 PM

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=51407

Couple of meters on this buoy.

2/27/2010 4:47:18 PM

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/Global/category.asp?C=176904

This looks to be the best view. Hilo bay. Looks like the initial ebb and flow has started. Pretty cool

2/27/2010 4:50:21 PM

I've got a moped im concerned about in hawaii.

2/27/2010 4:53:04 PM

2/27/2010 4:56:22 PM

am i seeing this?

another earthquake hit argentina?

2/27/2010 4:57:50 PM

no

not just now.

[Edited on February 27, 2010 at 5:00 PM. Reason : there was a one this morning ]

2/27/2010 4:58:37 PM

i mean like a couple of hours ago.

a separate event.

2/27/2010 5:00:45 PM

I wonder what Pat Robertson will blame this on.

2/27/2010 5:02:24 PM

Satan is surfing in on this one. Hang ten Hilo

2/27/2010 5:03:13 PM

ya it was before the big one. it was only like a 6. not a newsmaker

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/region/S_America.php

[Edited on February 27, 2010 at 5:04 PM. Reason : if you mean ANOTHER ONE then no]

2/27/2010 5:03:47 PM

6's are pretty serious. check out the one that hit LA back in the early 90s

2/27/2010 5:04:23 PM

^^ that happened like 2 hours ago... the one in Argentina.

There are 6's every week... of course if there in a major Metro area like LA or San Francisco, they will be newsmakers but most of the them are in desolate areas.

** There was actually a 7.0 on Friday off of the coast of Japan.

[Edited on February 27, 2010 at 5:08 PM. Reason : x]

2/27/2010 5:05:57 PM

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/Global/category.asp?C=176904

Link from above

you can really see the water recede

2/27/2010 5:08:58 PM

northridge was closer to being a 7 than a 6

2/27/2010 5:09:52 PM

tsumani warning has been issued here.

2/27/2010 5:10:12 PM

heh.

i was unaware at how common earthquakes were (relatively big ones that is...i know small ones are fairly common).

the more you know

2/27/2010 5:11:33 PM

Quote :

"^^ that happened like 2 hours ago... the one in Argentina."

what?

i've got

Magnitude 6.3
Date-Time Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 15:45:41 UTC
Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 12:45:41 PM at epicenter

Location 24.588°S, 65.432°W
Depth 38.2 km (23.7 miles)
Region SALTA, ARGENTINA





I hate to have to be the one to inform you guys but UTC is not the same as EST...

2/27/2010 5:12:56 PM

dude, i dont think 6's happen every week. if you can find anything to prove me wrong then youve got me...but im pretty sure anything over a 6 is not very frequent

2/27/2010 5:15:07 PM

^^OH REALLY?!?!?!?

[Edited on February 27, 2010 at 5:15 PM. Reason : ]

2/27/2010 5:15:26 PM

Ok it happened 7 hours ago (I thought it was two hours behind, not ahead for some reason).

Still that was long after the Chile one.

2/27/2010 5:17:18 PM

too soon, Joie. too soon...
I'm very disappointed

2/27/2010 5:17:31 PM

its not my fault nym410 has no idea what hes talking about

2/27/2010 5:18:12 PM

damn you emce.


damn you

2/27/2010 5:19:00 PM

^^^lol

[Edited on February 27, 2010 at 5:19 PM. Reason : ]

2/27/2010 5:19:11 PM

I'm on Oahu... the local news is showing the water rushing in and out around Hilo. There's not a lot going on. We'll see what happens....

2/27/2010 5:19:37 PM

6.0+ in February

source: http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/qed/

2010/02/18 01:13:19 42.60N 130.70E 580 6.9 CHINA-RUSSIA-NORTH KOREA BORDER REGION

2010/02/15 21:51:48 7.19S 128.77E 131 6.2 KEPULAUAN BARAT DAYA, INDONESIA

2010/02/13 02:34:28 21.89S 174.76W 11 6.1 TONGA

2010/02/09 01:03:44 15.05S 173.49W 10 6.0 TONGA

2010/02/07 06:10:00 23.48N 123.64E 21 6.3 SOUTHWESTERN RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN

2010/02/06 04:44:58 46.83N 152.73E 30 6.0 KURIL ISLANDS

2010/02/05 06:59:05 47.89S 99.66E 1 6.2 SOUTHEAST INDIAN RIDGE

2010/02/01 22:28:16 6.11S 154.46E 32 6.2 BOUGAINVILLE REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

2/27/2010 5:20:12 PM

Quote :

"its not my fault nym410 has no idea what hes talking about"

Are you fucking retarded?

Lets compare earthquakes using the UTC time zone then.

The big one in Chile happened:
Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 06:34:14 UTC

The one in Argentina happened:
Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 15:45:41 UTC

You said:
ya it was before the big one. it was only like a 6. not a newsmaker

2/27/2010 5:22:10 PM

well, for one you don't know how to edit a post.

but seriously, i didn't realize earthquakes that big happen with such frequency.

2/27/2010 5:26:10 PM

don't try to change the subject. you said it happened 2 hours ago.

2/27/2010 5:30:12 PM

I'm so embarrassed that I didn't know what time zone Argentina was in

I'm sorry that I got something wrong.

^^ yeah, I know a lot about earthquakes apparently... more than I care to, actually.

[Edited on February 27, 2010 at 5:32 PM. Reason : i'm an expert editor (almost every post) -- i just thought this moving fast enough to not double]

2/27/2010 5:32:03 PM

i'm impressed!

2/27/2010 5:34:04 PM

set em up

2/27/2010 5:35:42 PM