Tsunami

[cleetussnow]

Whats up with this quake and Tsunami threat in the Pacific?  Seems bad! 

[psv88]

3 hours until the waves hit Hawajj

[RU848789]

Wow, tsunami warnings are up for most of the "Ring of Fire" around the Pacific, from a magnitude 8.8 earthquake about an hour ago off the coast of Kamchatka, Russia. It is feared that this could generate tsunami waves of up to 10 feet in parts of nearby Japan and Russia and perhaps several feet in places like Hawaii and elsewhere - even the US West Coast and Alaska are under tsunami alerts.

 

This was a very powerful earthquake and, unfortunately, tsunami predictions aren't particularly accurate. Back in 2004, people in Indonesia certainly didn't expect the 150 foot tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands from a 9.2 magnitude earthquake; similarly in 2011, parts of Japan didn't expect tsunami waves of 50-100+ feet from a 9.0 earthquake (including at the Fukushima nuclear reactor, where 50' waves inundated and destroyed the facility, leading to partial reactor meltdowns and release of radioactivity). Hopefully people at risk are taking this seriously.

https://www.ksl.com/.../87-magnitude-earthquake-in...