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tsunami warning in effect from mexico to vancouver. anyone feel this? I didn't (in SF)...

 

[fse]

tsunami warning? is that true?

 

[Socreges]

CNN doesn't have BREAKING NEWS covering half the screen, so this can't be true/serious.

 

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it's on drudge.

http://edis.oes.ca.gov/bulletins/1118804239.txt

 

[Socreges]

Ah, Vancouver Island, not Vancouver. No worries then!

Honestly, I think this is probably a mixture of paranoia/demonstration. After what happened in South-East Asia, we may see a lot of these warnings over the next several years.

 

[fse]

we are gonna die! end is nigh!

 

[Escape Goat]

WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?

 

[MC Safety]

tsunami warning in effect from mexico to vancouver. anyone feel this? I didn't (in SF)...

Skip, I feel now might be a good time to hit you up for, say, $20.

 

[Matlock]

Insert insensitive Everclear song title reference here.

 

[Grizzlyjin]

That would take out quite a few movie stars, which would make room for my debut.

 

[Matlock]

Apparently they're calling for waves around 9:15 PDT.

25 minutes.

If a tsunami is generated, it is predicted to hit Crescent City, Calif., first at 8:29 p.m., followed minutes later in Charleston, Ore., and at 9:23 in San Francisco. The arrival time in the Los Angeles Harbor area of San Pedro is set for 10 p.m. and in La Jolla at 10:14 p.m.

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44782

 

[demon]

Holy shit, I didn't see the big red square up in the corner until just now........wow...

 

[xsarien]

Apparently they're calling for waves around 9:15 PDT.

25 minutes.

Yeah, well, I'm not gonna head on down to the beach to take a look.

 

[Matlock]

Why are none of the news channels covering this?

 

[xsarien]

Why are none of the news channels covering this?

Michael Jackson post-game show, duh.

 

[Escape Goat]

xsarien died late monday night as tidal waves came crashing down upon many California beaches....

 

[pollo]

tough luck west coast

guess we know who god likes better now :lol

 

[ImNotLikeThem]

its on msnbc right now at least. other sites coming soon most likely.

 

[skip]

ocean beach has a pretty big concrete retaining wall, protecting the bulk of SF. wouldn't want to be on the bridge tonight, though!

 

[videogamer]

tsunami warning? is that true?

Yeah. ForecastFox told me there was a "severe weather alert". I was like, it's just cloudy outside.

Tsunami warning... scary.

 

[kamikaze]

heh, i just got a message while watching espn. the emergency alert system actually gives me something relevant...well kinda. i feel pretty good having a nice mountain seperating me from the pacific. didn't feel the quake at all from here (marin).

and pollo, i've been on both coasts and even with the occasional quake (and now a possible tsunami), i think the guy upstairs likes us more.

 

[pollo]

ok after posting that i feel kind of bad,
keep it safe guys..and just run the fuck out if you need to

 

[Socreges]

CNN just reported it. Then immediately cut to Larry King Live with Jacko coverage. :lol

 

[fse]

Yeah. ForecastFox told me there was a "severe weather alert". I was like, it's just cloudy outside.

Tsunami warning... scary.

Atleast I live 3,000+ feet above the ocean.

 

[Mike Works]

The weather's been pretty damn weird here in Vancouver the past couple days, today included. It'd be perfectly sunny with few clouds overhead, and then a thunderstorm a few miles over. Quite disconcerting, and I hope nothing really bad happens.

 

[rc213]

It's being reported on Channel 9 here in Los Angeles, they say it was 7.0 magnitude 80 miles off the coast of Northern California.

 

[AirBrian]

Front page of Yahoo now...

Major Quake Strikes Off California Coast

21 minutes ago

CRESCENT CITY, Calif. - A major earthquake struck Tuesday night about 80 miles off the coast of northern California, prompting a tsunami warning along the Pacific coast.
ADVERTISEMENT

The 7.0-magnitude quake struck at about 7:50 p.m. southwest of the coastal community of Crescent City, according to the
U.S. Geological Survey Web site.

A tsunami warning was in effect from the California-Mexico border north to Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

Residents were being evacuated from low-lying areas of Crescent City, KCBS radio reported.

 

[videogamer]

Atleast I live 3,000+ feet above the ocean.

Is that like way up in the hills?

 

[fse]

 

[Ninja Scooter]

Why are none of the news channels covering this?

a white woman is missing goddamit!

 

[Matlock]

http://edis.oes.ca.gov/bulletins/1118808595.txt

...THE TSUNAMI WARNING AND WATCH STATUS IS CANCELED FOR
CALIFORNIA - OREGON - WASHINGTON - BRITISH COLUMBIA - AND
ALASKA...

 

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a part of me is disappointed.

 

[AirBrian]

a white woman is missing goddamit!

"The trial is over, can't you people leave me alone!"

 

[Socreges]

"The trial is over, can't you people leave me alone!"

:lol

 

[MIMIC]

a white woman is missing goddamit!

:lol

 

[Poody]

Get the canadians first

 

[xsarien]

An utterly useless program, but pretty cool in a "Wow, it's just like in the movies" kind of way:

http://www.download.com/Earthquake-3D/3000-2054_4-10395117.html?tag=lst-0-1

 

[Loki]

So there were no repercussions from a 7.0 earthquake a mere 80 miles off the coast of Cali? No high waves...nothing? Isn't that odd? I mean, from my understanding, a 7.0 is pretty significant.


Not that I wish death and destruction on you Cali folk, it just strikes me as curious.

 

[xsarien]

So there were no repercussions from a 7.0 earthquake a mere 80 miles off the coast of Cali? No high waves...nothing? Isn't that odd? I mean, from my understanding, a 7.0 is pretty significant.

Tsunamis are generally formed when the plates move vertically against each other, displacing the water and creating waves. In this case, the plates just grinded up against each other, kind of like rubbing your hands together.

a white woman is missing goddamit!

No, she was just on trial in Santa Maria.

 

[Loki]

Tsunamis are generally formed when the plates move vertically against each other, displacing the water and creating waves. In this case, the plates just grinded up against each other, kind of like rubbing your hands together.

So it was a transform fault as opposed to a convergent or divergent boundary, I assume? That would make sense given the direction of motion-- I didn't think of that possibility.

 

[Boogie9IGN]

Fuck me, I live right on the big red square in the Bay Area

 

[OpinionatedCyborg]

Michael Jackson post-game show, duh.

Haha..."THE DAY AFTER" "DAY 1 OF POST MICHAEL JACKSON TRIAL"

CNN has seriously used both of those headlines. :|

 

[Odnetnin]

No, she was just on trial in Santa Maria.

:lol :lol :lol

 

[Drozmight]

Yeah, Forcast Fox popped up with a severe weather alert to inform me of a possible Tsunami. I was like... damn.

 

[Shinobi]

a white woman is missing goddamit!

:lol

 

[Blatz]

Earthquake motion was horizontal, not vertical.....not likely to cause Tsunami

 

[Doth Togo]

so what happened? was the surf good?

 

[Phoenix]

WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?

In heaven laughing at this stupid ass thread.

 

[Escape Goat]

In heaven laughing at this stupid ass thread.

God: *laughing his ass off* Oh shit, that was hilarious. You should have seen all their faces, Jesus. *laughs* I'm priceless.

 

[Setanta]

This is news to me. I can't see a whole big chunk of land with heights above sea level sinking though, if it did happen there would be numerous islands.
In relation to this, 300 Acres of land in Ireland disappear every year, due to the battering the Island gets from the Atlantic Ocean. Although we haven't earthquakes to look forward to.