Rob, I hope you and your neighbors all come through it well and unscathed. How big was the wave? - Kurt
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
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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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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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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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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While at the beach yesterday after they opened up the coast roads I only saw one set of waves that were unusual. It was a small beach break kind of day but this one group of waves went up the beach about 100ft to just wet my toes even during big break days and high tide rarely does the water lap that high Several harbors got some damage out here Keehi Lagoon, Oahu had docks ripped way w/ 125 boats floating free in the harbor while here on Maui Kahului Harbor had some damage but the small boat harbors of Maalaea and Lahaina had boats sink http://www.mauinews.com/page/category.detail/nav/10/Local-News.html and dock damage. Kona on the Big Island had the worst of it all w/ flooding and some damage to shops, condos and homes. This is the price one pays for being at sea level and close to the water, but living by the sea is quite nice. Aloha Rob
Yokwe, Rob -- I went to Emon Beach (on the island of Kwajalein, Marshall Islands) to see the tsunami that followed the Alaskan earthquake of 1964. It was night, a security guard tried to chase me off, but the tsunami did no damage -- it was almost undetectable, though I heard that some waves were something like three feet higher on the beach than usual. The reason is that Kwaj sits on top of an undersea mountain range, which is nearly vertical. A tsunami only builds to a towering, destructive monster when there's a long shallow stretch before landfall. I have a hunch that much of Hawaii is surrounded by deep water, so it should not be damaged awfully by tsunamis. Was any place in Hawaii destroyed in '64 or bt any other tsunamis? Yokwe yuk, Joe --- On Sat, 3/12/11, 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: Saturday, March 12, 2011, 11:35 AM While at the beach yesterday after they opened up the coast roads I only saw one set of waves that were unusual. It was a small beach break kind of day but this one group of waves went up the beach about 100ft to just wet my toes even during big break days and high tide rarely does the water lap that high
Several harbors got some damage out here Keehi Lagoon, Oahu had docks ripped way w/ 125 boats floating free in the harbor while here on Maui Kahului Harbor had some damage but the small boat harbors of Maalaea and Lahaina had boats sink http://www.mauinews.com/page/category.detail/nav/10/Local-News.html and dock damage. Kona on the Big Island had the worst of it all w/ flooding and some damage to shops, condos and homes. This is the price one pays for being at sea level and close to the water, but living by the sea is quite nice.
Aloha Rob
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Aloha Joe!! Hilo got nailed by the Chile '60' quake and some damage from Alaska 64 quake. The last 2010 Chile quake produced the most noticeable tidal changes that were broadcast, but this is the 1dt tsunami type event that I've seen here that caused damage. Hawaii has some reefs that slow things down but I was in Kihei today and saw indications that the water went several 100's of yards in . The Humpback Sanctuary offices had their parking lot under water still, it was the site of the original WWVH , it is right on and along the bay just a few feet above sea level. For us to get a big tsunami we'd need a big local earthquake and we would have minimal time to evacuate, it would be bad but probably wouldn't happen in my lifetime. A hui ho Rob
On 12 Mar 2011, at 11:46, Joe Bauman wrote:
I went to Emon Beach (on the island of Kwajalein, Marshall Islands) to see the tsunami that followed the Alaskan earthquake of 1964.
Y'all need to ask Siegfried about his experience with the 1964 earthquake. He was right in the thick of it. patrick
Siegfried and Bill Cowles. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Wiggins" <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 6:38:49 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Tsunami coming to Hawaii On 12 Mar 2011, at 11:46, Joe Bauman wrote:
I went to Emon Beach (on the island of Kwajalein, Marshall Islands) to see the tsunami that followed the Alaskan earthquake of 1964.
Y'all need to ask Siegfried about his experience with the 1964 earthquake. He was right in the thick of it. patrick _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com
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From: sfisher01@comcast.net <sfisher01@comcast.net> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Tsunami coming to Hawaii To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Saturday, March 12, 2011, 8:22 PM
Siegfried and Bill Cowles.
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On 12 Mar 2011, at 11:46, Joe Bauman wrote:
I went to Emon Beach (on the island of Kwajalein, Marshall Islands) to see the tsunami that followed the Alaskan earthquake of 1964.
Y'all need to ask Siegfried about his experience with the 1964 earthquake. He was right in the thick of it.
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