These were very interesting, Jay. Thanks for posting. -- Joe --- On Sat, 3/12/11, Jay Eads <jayleads@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Jay Eads <jayleads@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Tsunami coming to Hawaii To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Saturday, March 12, 2011, 10:46 AM They are reporting 1900 missing from one town on the coast, about 1/2 the population of the town. The death toll in Japan will probably soar over the next week. Just a horrible situation there. On the other hand, I was reading the SF Gate and Mercury News and looking at the pictures they had and it seems many went down to the beaches and areas after being told not to. In one case a mother had her kids playing in the ocean . . . not sure about that with the increase rip currents as the waves hit. The surfers I can understand . . . as I surfed 25 to 30 years ago as a teen (about 90 lbs less also) the Santa Cruz area. Love the Bay Area to visit but too many people for me now (Salt Lake area reminds me of the Bay Area growing up and I fear it will have too many people in 20 years . . . then again, I'll be retired by then and can move south to warmer climbs).
I thought this video was rather interesting from the Emeryville area of the SF Bay: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jdMDCLwblkY
This one is interesting also in how the waves build up at the last into distinct parts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vw2KHrECdo
Here is from the Santa Cruz Marina. I recommend you put the volume down, no real swearing but for some who are religious they use the name of God in vain. Still both videos show the power after traveling all that distance from Japan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B-ACV3pPqc
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkgGzxtybbE&feature=related
Interesting to see the boat hit the bridge with its mast while sinking and then the surge hitting the boat. There have been between 8 and 12 surges on the west coast. The west coast from Crescent City to the SF Bay area has topography that once a tsunami wave hits, it tends to bounce around cause surges to come in over time. So the coast this weekend isn't a good place to be.
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 9:34 AM, <erikhansen@thebluezone.net> wrote:
Sounds like it did more damage to west coast of the mainland, with 3-4 ft waves. It hit in Japan with over 20 ft waves while people were waking up, I guess the massive earth quake woke them up first.
LUCKY!
--- On Fri, 3/11/11, Rob Ratkowski Photography
<ratkwski@hawaii.rr.com>
wrote:
From: Rob Ratkowski Photography <ratkwski@hawaii.rr.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Tsunami coming to Hawaii To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Friday, March 11, 2011, 5:17 PM The wave that Kahului had was in the 6-7 ft range and the harbor had some damage. As I came down the mountain to do some work in Kihei, a large patch of disturbed water was seen, it filled 1/3-1/2 the harbor. Parts of the Kihei shoreline were closed off but the beach I go to showed evidence of the wave going up to the plant barriers and grass (about 150 ft). It was pretty cool to see the beach smooth and flat w/ very few people on it and hardly any footprints. I spent 2 hrs. in the sun and only saw one set of waves that actually came farther up the beach than the normal small waves of today. It was also odd to see no boats of any kind out, usually the count is between 10-20 boats at one time, just saw several whale breeches. It was beautiful sunny day and the water was clear and cool also w/ a flat bottom with the normal undulating bottom was made flat. Pretty girls too ;^)
Aloha Rob
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