A magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia

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- 8.8 magnitude quake hits near city of Petropavlovsk-Kaamchatsky
- Tsunami of 3-4 metres recorded in Kamchatka Peninsula
- Warnings for Japan, Hawaii, US West Coast and other Pacific nations

July 30 (Reuters) - A magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday, damaging buildings and generating a tsunami of up to 4 metres (13 feet) that prompted warnings and evacuations stretching across the Pacific Ocean.


 
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Dr.D00p said:
Lol, why?

It will barely register by the time it reaches California. As Tsunamis go, 3-4m wave heights are very weak sauce after travelling thousands of miles.
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Looooool a tsunami warning? Must be nothing, right?

Just the potential of a few million gallons of water smashing into the coast. What's the worst that could happen?

Imagine being this confidently stupid about natural disasters. Hope no one takes advice from you when the water starts rushing in
 
HRK69 said:
Looooool a tsunami warning? Must be nothing, right?

Just the potential of a few million gallons of water smashing into the coast. What's the worst that could happen?

Imagine being this confidently stupid about natural disasters. Hope no one takes advice from you when the water starts rushing in
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Please do post the videos of the devastation about to be caused by this natural calamity upon California...
 
Dr.D00p said:
Please do post the videos of the devastation about to be caused by this natural calamity upon California...
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Why does he need to post videos?

It's just a warning incase of a worst case scenario.

I'm sure the 10,000+ people of Japan who died in 2011 would have appreciated a heads up to evacuate.
 
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On Kauai right now. They just downgraded from a warning to an advisory. Some flooding on the big island at a few places but nothing serious. A nothing burger this time.
 
Experts are being careful because it is too chaotic to predict. Mostly it should be nothing but you can't predict if some spot might get some weirdly concentrated wave.
 
I don't want to appear cuntish because that's not my intention but, has there been any tsunami recorded or just a bit of water?
 
Got the all clear on Kauai. Having a beer 100 feet from the south shore. I think maybe Hilo got roughed up a little, but Kauai is fine. No damage at all, power still on. Locals seemed to be having a party up in the hills were I was, I guess this means no work for them tomorrow lol.
 
Diddy X said:
How strong is that I have no idea.
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I had to look it up as well. I knew 8 was high, I just didn't know how high exactly.

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You guys know you are arguing about something that didn't even happen right? California only got watches and advisories not warnings because there was never consideration of any significant risk that far from the earthquake. Even those watches and advisories were more about common sense stuff like not swimming, staying off the beaches and protecting docked boats. Nothing about evacuations or anything like that. The comparison to 2011 would be the impact that had on California not the impact it had on Japan and while there was $100 million in damages that was boats and stuff in harbors and not flooding or anything that would present a risk to people inland. The one death was of course somebody not using common sense that got sucked out by a wave. So yes watches and advisories for California made sense but warnings would have been ridiculous. But again California didn't go higher than an advisory so no point arguing something that didn't even happen. Some people just label all things like that warnings.
 
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Windle Poons said:
I don't want to appear cuntish because that's not my intention but, has there been any tsunami recorded or just a bit of water?
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Are you talking about in California or the world? The boxing day Tsunami in 2004 killed nearly a quarter of a million people in Thailand and surrounding countries and there was the Fukashima Tsunami in Japan back in 2011.
 
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Kacho said:
I think Windle Poons Windle Poons is talking about this specific event.
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Thats not how it reads?...

Windle Poons said:
I don't want to appear cuntish because that's not my intention but, has there been any tsunami recorded or just a bit of water?
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But you may be right, still, this one has been recorded also, I was intending it to be a response to 'just a bit of water' really, as you DO NOT take Tsunami's lightly, they can cause massive devastation and loss of life in a very short space of time.
 
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midnightAI said:
Thats not how it reads?...
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Yeah, I see how you all are reading it. I just think he didn't clarify he was talking about this event specifically. I don't think the user believes there hasn't been a recorded Tsunami in the history of mankind lol
 


Not just images of a volcano sprung back to life, but also of tsunami waves hitting a Russian beach. You see a man up on a hill recording everything but he was scared away when the waves were going straight up the hill towards him.

Annoying scary background music though.
 
kruis said:


Not just images of a volcano sprung back to life, but also of tsunami waves hitting a Russian beach. You see a man up on a hill recording everything but he was scared away when the waves were going straight up the hill towards him.

Annoying scary background music though.
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Tsunamis are some scary shit. Nature truly shows how small we really are. That, volcanos, fires, etc...all natural disasters really. But there's something particularly scary about the sea.

When i watch those videos of ships going through huge storms it's also a nice reminder of this.
 
Wasn't someone predicting a 10 magnitude around Indonesia a while back? Also the North West coast of America is overdue.
 
Huge quakes, ring of fire becoming increasingly active, solar flares and auroras in strange places...

If anyone is a student of Graham Hancock, feel free to join me at a consensually agreed spot and start digging out a set of bunkers and tunnels to weather the coming storm and rebuild humanity from the salt soaked pitch that will cover us all.

If you don't subscribe to the Younger Dryas periods' near extinction level event....well....uh....

That's some weather!
 
HAYA8U5A said:
You guys know you are arguing about something that didn't even happen right? California only got watches and advisories not warnings because there was never consideration of any significant risk that far from the earthquake. Even those watches and advisories were more about common sense stuff like not swimming, staying off the beaches and protecting docked boats. Nothing about evacuations or anything like that. The comparison to 2011 would be the impact that had on California not the impact it had on Japan and while there was $100 million in damages that was boats and stuff in harbors and not flooding or anything that would present a risk to people inland. The one death was of course somebody not using common sense that got sucked out by a wave. So yes watches and advisories for California made sense but warnings would have been ridiculous. But again California didn't go higher than an advisory so no point arguing something that didn't even happen. Some people just label all things like that warnings.
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It's depressing as hell people turn this shit political.

The advisories are basically "pay attention to the news just in case and be careful in the water."
 
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TheInfamousKira said:
Huge quakes, ring of fire becoming increasingly active, solar flares and auroras in strange places...

If anyone is a student of Graham Hancock, feel free to join me at a consensually agreed spot and start digging out a set of bunkers and tunnels to weather the coming storm and rebuild humanity from the salt soaked pitch that will cover us all.

If you don't subscribe to the Younger Dryas periods' near extinction level event....well....uh....

That's some weather!
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Can't. I'm busy camping in Yellowstone for the summer ...
 
TheInfamousKira said:
When you're done, come dig in Pittsburgh with me. I think the east coast will be the least-fucked spot in the US if old yeller' gets angry.
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I live in north-ish Georgia. I think we're okay if she goes -- but gotta say, all the animals moving in groups and acting weird up there in the last couple of weeks doesn't have me feeling too great.
 
IntentionalPun said:
Whole lot of tsunami damage or even deaths happen from what looks like just a bit of water, and not violent huge waves.
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Yeah, people always picture The Day After Tomorrow mile high waves that wash away continents or whatever, but the bog standard tsunami is basically a rapid increase in sea level, basically Earth decided that the shoreline needs gerrymandered.
 
TheInfamousKira said:
Yeah, people always picture The Day After Tomorrow mile high waves that wash away continents or whatever, but the bog standard tsunami is basically a rapid increase in sea level, basically Earth decided that the shoreline needs gerrymandered.
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Yeah and then it decides to pull it back into the sea lol
 
spookyfish said:
I live in north-ish Georgia. I think we're okay if she goes -- but gotta say, all the animals moving in groups and acting weird up there in the last couple of weeks doesn't have me feeling too great.
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I'm probably too Rogan brained for my own good, but it's nuts when you listen to like eight podcasts (not entirely JRE, I listen to Shawn Ryan and Lex Fridman pretty often, as well) and similar shit starts happening IRL.

All the talk of Gobekli Tepe maybe being a refuge spot like Cappadocia for groups of people to survive natural cataclysms, and then DUMBs, I don't know, man. Maybe I wish I was Link or something, but it feels like there's more to THE story. I don't know, man.

If a super Volcano erupts, I hope you find a cave.
 
TheInfamousKira said:
I'm probably too Rogan brained for my own good, but it's nuts when you listen to like eight podcasts (not entirely JRE, I listen to Shawn Ryan and Lex Fridman pretty often, as well) and similar shit starts happening IRL.

All the talk of Gobekli Tepe maybe being a refuge spot like Cappadocia for groups of people to survive natural cataclysms, and then DUMBs, I don't know, man. Maybe I wish I was Link or something, but it feels like there's more to THE story. I don't know, man.

If a super Volcano erupts, I hope you find a cave.
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It's kind of like an asteroid impact, man. If God decides it's time, it's time, and there's nothing I nor anyone can do about it. Can't get worked up about it. I listen to MrMBB333 on YT, and he keeps up with Yellowstone, as far as USGS monitoring up there. (And we have some caves here, in the foothills of the mountains.)

That quake in Russia rang a lot of bells, worldwide. Is it the start of the show, or a solo act? Time will tell.
 
These volcanos take 100's of thousands or millions of years before their "next eruption." And many erupt without any perceivable warning. Sometimes we detect activity days or weeks in advance but sometimes not.

I really don't think anyone has their finger on the pulse of when the next big-one will hit the series of hot spots in Yellowstone lol
 
IntentionalPun said:
These volcanos take 100's of thousands or millions of years before their "next eruption." And many erupt without any perceivable warning. Sometimes we detect activity days or weeks in advance but sometimes not.

I really don't think anyone has their finger on the pulse of when the next big-one will hit the series of hot spots in Yellowstone lol
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Oh, there's no way to know, for sure. I mean, the floor of Lake Yellowstone was rising years ago, but now it seems to be subsiding ...
 
IntentionalPun said:
These volcanos take 100's of thousands or millions of years before their "next eruption." And many erupt without any perceivable warning. Sometimes we detect activity days or weeks in advance but sometimes not.

I really don't think anyone has their finger on the pulse of when the next big-one will hit the series of hot spots in Yellowstone lol
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I'm pretty firmly in the "nothing ever happens," camp, but I do have a weird background sort of...unease about the world. I know every generation thinks the end of the world is coming, and I'm not at that point, but it feels like something big, like fundamentals-changing is out there. Be it a scientific breakthrough, an archeological site, or mil spec tech stuff is coming. Maybe it's just me being a bored mammal, but conspiracies are fun, to a point.

I did see some clips on X showcasing some sites in Yellowstone where the ground was literally vibrating objects placed on it, like bottles and stuff. I'm no Yellowstone expert, so that may be a common occurrence. Realizing that we're essentially Islands on a sea of magma kind of freaks me out, though. I'm of the mind of the butterfly effect, so eruptions along the ring of fire could disturb some pocket of deep earth and ripple out to destroying the US Pompeii style.

Once again though, I'm at the point of learning where I'm intelligent enough to understand that I don't understand shit. It's a struggle.
 
spookyfish said:
Doesn't keep me from trying or wanting to, though.
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Good attitude. One I try to maintain. It's actually sort of silly in retrospect how eager I am for information and learning in my adult life versus growing up (where it would have made the most sense, haha)

It's always crazy getting into a new subject and realizing the hidden depth that almost everything in the world has.
 
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