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3/10/11 Hawaii Tsunami Warning

The State of Hawaii is currently on a Tsunami Warning due to a massive earthquake in Japan.

quoting the Civil Defense announcement:

Quote:

TIME/DATE: 9:45 PM/March 10, 2011
TSUNAMI MESSAGE NUMBER 3
NWS PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER EWA BEACH HI
931 PM HST THU MAR 10 2011
TO - CIVIL DEFENSE IN THE STATE OF HAWAII SUBJECT - TSUNAMI WARNING A TSUNAMI WARNING IS ISSUED FOR THE STATE OF HAWAII EFFECTIVE AT
0931 PM HST.
AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS
ORIGIN TIME - 0746 PM HST 10 MAR 2011
COORDINATES - 38.2 NORTH 142.5 EAST
LOCATION - NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU JAPAN
MAGNITUDE - 8.8 MOMENT
MEASUREMENTS OR REPORTS OF TSUNAMI WAVE ACTIVITY
GAUGE LOCATION LAT LON TIME AMPL PER
DART 21413 30.5N 152.1E 0659Z 0.76M / 2.5FT 32MIN
HANASAKI HOKKAIDO J 43.3N 145.6E 0657Z 2.79M / 9.2FT 76MIN
DART 21401 42.6N 152.6E 0643Z 0.67M / 2.2FT 40MIN
DART 21418 38.7N 148.7E 0619Z 1.08M / 3.5FT 06MIN
LAT - LATITUDE (N-NORTH, S-SOUTH)
LON - LONGITUDE (E-EAST, W-WEST)
TIME - TIME OF THE MEASUREMENT (Z IS UTC IS GREENWICH TIME) AMPL - TSUNAMI AMPLITUDE MEASURED RELATIVE TO NORMAL SEA LEVEL.
IT IS ...NOT... CREST-TO-TROUGH WAVE HEIGHT.
VALUES ARE GIVEN IN BOTH METERS(M) AND FEET(FT).
PER - PERIOD OF TIME IN MINUTES(MIN) FROM ONE WAVE TO THE NEXT.
NOTE - DART MEASUREMENTS ARE FROM THE DEEP OCEAN AND THEY
ARE GENERALLY MUCH SMALLER THAN WOULD BE COASTAL
MEASUREMENTS AT SIMILAR LOCATIONS.
EVALUATION
A TSUNAMI HAS BEEN GENERATED THAT COULD CAUSE DAMAGE ALONG COASTLINES OF ALL ISLANDS IN THE STATE OF HAWAII. URGENT ACTION SHOULD BE TAKEN TO PROTECT LIVES AND PROPERTY.
THE ESTIMATED ARRIVAL TIME IN HAWAII OF THE FIRST TSUNAMI WAVE IS
0259 AM HST FRI 11 MAR 2011 MESSAGES WILL BE ISSUED HOURLY OR SOONER AS CONDITIONS WARRANT.

Me and my friend Malcolm (my EDF-Revo/ERBE cameraman) watching the announcement on TV:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE5XmgVirYs

Anyone else in Japan/Hawaii, be careful you guys...it's hell outside right now. Half-mile long backups everywhere for gas and emergency supplies...if it doesn't sound that impressive, consider that Hilo has a population of only 50,000.

Holy crap batman.

HOLY CRAP are you serious? 8.8 magnitude?? Hey Lito whats the story over there in Japan where you are? Are you OK? Well we sure hope that there are no Tsunamis to wory about. Good luck there in Hawaii. Our son is presently attending school at The University of Hawaii. Keep us posted.

my condolences to anyone effected!

Holy crap!!!!:gasp: I just saw the announcement of earthquake. Japan is totaly messed up.:oh:

My wife's family seems to be in a safe area so I am happy about that but it sounds like there will be a high death toll from this. I heard people have been washed away. I am sad to hear this and hope the casualties are at a minimum but from the seens on the tv it looks very serious.

There are already 60 deaths confirmed.

Jerry, I'm doing okay here on the ship. I have duty today so I can't go home. So far, nothing was damage on base but it was pretty scary. The quake lasted almost a minute long and there were plenty of aftershocks. The tsunami was only about 6 feet on base but the northern part of Japan wasn't as lucky. They were inundated with 23-foot waves and I could just watch in amazement how fishing boat, trucks, cars and houses were swept by the waves. My family is doing okay but they were scared and shaken bad. It sucks because I can't go home and console them especially the kids. It doesn't help either living in the 8th floor of a high rise tower. Were about 41 miles southeast of Tokyo.

Thanks for the concern. Now, it time fior me to go on a 4-hour Officer of the Deck watch. I can't wait until I get home tomorrow.

It is good to hear that you and your family are OK Lito. Duty comes first, and I know that well Chief. I was lucky enough to never get to stand an Officer of the Deck watch in over 20 years. Once I made E-6 I stood duty Chief and once I made Chief I was Engineering Officer of the day for my duties. At least you can go home in the morning after your section is relieved to give everyone a big hug. We still do not have any TV system hooked up here, so I have not seen any news in over a week. We should be able to get our hands on an AFN receiver in a week or two, so we can at least get to watch Fox News, BBC, and CNN. I hate being out of touch with whats going on in the world. Glad to hear your OK Chief.

well Hawaii is okay, fortunately only minimal damage. Thoughts go out to everyone affected in Japan, they really got devastated.

So anyone have any info on the 2 reactors over there that collapsed? Man I hope they are OK

Well from all of the on line news that we have read through so far it does not look good. One reactor has already had some leakage, but so far it was minimal. The reactor is normally cooled by purified/distilled water in a closed system which is very well controlled, but after some damage they have had to revert to using seawater pumped from the near by ocean as an emergency cooling medium. As long as they can keep the water flowing and the rods covered things are good to go, but if cooling fails all together there would be a meltdown, and more than likely a pretty big explosion. It could end up much like the disaster in Chernobyl, Russia, which resulted in an area of about 30-40 square miles being a barron waste land. Everything within that circle will die and be contaminated for approx 100 years or more.

This is a very serious matter. The scariest thing is that a ploom of nuclear radiation could leak into the atmosphere and travel hundreds of miles or more poisoning everything in its path. If two reactors end up this way simotaniously within the same region it could be comepletely disasterous for the entire island of Japan and its nearby neighbors. We should all be saying some kind of prayers for everyone affected by this situation. It is quickly becoming an internation responsibility to resolve whatever problems there are looming from this very large Earthquake and Tsunami. The people of Japan will need help on every level to get out of this mess. The French who from what I am reading set these reactors up in Japan are already ordering all of their people out of Japan for their own safety.

I believe in our worlds nuclear specialists in that they can contain these reactors.but all they need is one slip up and a 100 hundred square mile radioactive plume flies over japan and California,like the world economy could withstand one of the largest tech producers and one of the biggest breadbaskets in the world collapsing.

Adding to the chaos.

I also just read that Japan has declared states of disaster in six of its nuke plants as of about an hour ago. The official death toll now stands at about 1400. I am sure with the level of devistation it will take weeks for their efforts to reach final numbers and figure out exactly what level of damage has been done. The estimates I just saw may equal somewhere near $65billion in just insured damages.

Todays news reports

We finally saw some of the news videos that show entire towns being washed out to sea. It is devistating just to think of what these poor people had to endure. The news said that yesterday off one of the towns worst hit they found over 1000 bodies along the seashore. There is a report of a second explosion at one of the Nuke plants, but that the radiation levels were within exceptable limits so there was no danger of major leakage. The videos are just painful to watch.

This might help with the reactor understanding?

http://images.smh.com.au/2011/03/14/...n-reactor2.jpg