Shake map for that huge earthquake in Kamchatka (with confirmed tsunami impacts in Kamchata, watches/warnings from Japan to Canada to California) #earthquake #tsunami
A good time to remind people that a 3 meter tsunami is not the kind of wave you pipeline at Pleasure Point. It's a 3 meter flood tide full of logs, bits of houses and whatever other junk it picks up. It's not a sight-seeing opportunity. It's a thing to avoid. I'm looking at you, Crescent City.
@istartedi remember a video of a relatively small tsunami that hit California a few years ago, looked like just a small wave until it hit a floating dock and absolutely wrecked it.
@theothersimo @istartedi maybe 8-10 years ago I was living in San Diego and we had a Tsunami warning, so my buddies and I headed to Swamis to try to surf it. Everyone was lined up at the top of the cliff to watch as it came in.
It was ultimately pretty anticlimactic... like, you could tell when it hit because the wave frequency picked up quite a bit, but there was no drain out, no massive wave, no epic surf. We didn't even notice any stronger currents.
Probably not the lesson I (and everyone at the top of the cliff watching) should've learned from that... but clearly what hit us wasn't the disaster-causing wall of water it was supposed to be.
@mathaetaes @theothersimo @istartedi Tsunami doesn't put in a "Wave", it puts in a bunch of crap, if you've ever seen what came in Tohuku (logs, dirt, mud, houses, etc. etc.)... not surfable.
@theothersimo @istartedi Yeah, I've seen videos taken in cities, and once it hits civilization it's basically just a flood. However, if you're out in the ocean where would it get all that crap from? The videos of that big 2011 tsunami in Japan, taken from a boat, just look like a massive swell. No debris or crap. Like this: youtu.be/MUC5kNCMetY?t=107
The period is so long and the wave moving so fast you'd probably need to tow-in to catch it... but I don't see how you'd get logs and debris coming from the open ocean like that.
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Even without a significant wave they can still be fatal.
A few years ago we had a warning for a small tsunami for Sydney. It had travelled a long way to get to us.
The tide was 3/4 the way out. The water rose over a few minutes to be near the high tide mark, then back down to normal. Then repeated that a few times in a couple of hours.
There is video of small creeks and lagoons nealy drained, then having water rush in and out quickly.
Doesn't seem much, but that type of water movement generated strong currents and rips that seem to come out of nowhere and in places where they were not a few minutes earlier.
Kids playing in a safe lagoon, swimmers standing on safe sandbanks can all be suddenly in a potential life-threatening situation.
It is thought Bondi's black Saturday a mass rescue of 250 people, 150 needing assistance, 35 unconcious and 5 dead was a result of a small tsunami wave on a crowded beach.
@theothersimo @istartedi Several California harbors are shaped in a way that makes a 30cm tsunami damaging. Crescent City, Santa Cruz, Ventura, Channel Islands harbors all have experienced damage after recent somewhat minor events.
The Juan De Fuca (sp?) straits are incredibly vulnerable because they narrow like a Venturi and if it hits there it will be up to 3x higher than just against an open shoreline.
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in reply to arceuthobium • • •@theothersimo @istartedi maybe 8-10 years ago I was living in San Diego and we had a Tsunami warning, so my buddies and I headed to Swamis to try to surf it. Everyone was lined up at the top of the cliff to watch as it came in.
It was ultimately pretty anticlimactic... like, you could tell when it hit because the wave frequency picked up quite a bit, but there was no drain out, no massive wave, no epic surf. We didn't even notice any stronger currents.
Probably not the lesson I (and everyone at the top of the cliff watching) should've learned from that... but clearly what hit us wasn't the disaster-causing wall of water it was supposed to be.
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in reply to AI6YR Ben • • •@theothersimo @istartedi Yeah, I've seen videos taken in cities, and once it hits civilization it's basically just a flood. However, if you're out in the ocean where would it get all that crap from? The videos of that big 2011 tsunami in Japan, taken from a boat, just look like a massive swell. No debris or crap. Like this: youtu.be/MUC5kNCMetY?t=107
The period is so long and the wave moving so fast you'd probably need to tow-in to catch it... but I don't see how you'd get logs and debris coming from the open ocean like that.
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Even without a significant wave they can still be fatal.
A few years ago we had a warning for a small tsunami for Sydney. It had travelled a long way to get to us.
The tide was 3/4 the way out. The water rose over a few minutes to be near the high tide mark, then back down to normal. Then repeated that a few times in a couple of hours.
There is video of small creeks and lagoons nealy drained, then having water rush in and out quickly.
Doesn't seem much, but that type of water movement generated strong currents and rips that seem to come out of nowhere and in places where they were not a few minutes earlier.
Kids playing in a safe lagoon, swimmers standing on safe sandbanks can all be suddenly in a potential life-threatening situation.
It is thought Bondi's black Saturday a mass rescue of 250 people, 150 needing assistance, 35 unconcious and 5 dead was a result of a small tsunami wave on a crowded beach.
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