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General => General Talk => Topic started by: Sailfish on January 24, 2018, 11:08:40 AM

Title: Earthquake in Alaska yesterday!
Post by: Sailfish on January 24, 2018, 11:08:40 AM
Hope the big waves won't make it here!

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/us/earthquake-tsunami-alaska.html
Title: Re: Earthwake in Alaska yesterday!
Post by: Azkikr on January 24, 2018, 11:14:53 AM
Yup. Happened yesterday
Title: Re: Earthwake in Alaska yesterday!
Post by: NowhereMan on January 24, 2018, 01:38:30 PM
A “small tsunami, with a wave height of less than eight inches” does not sound like much of a tsunami. But that certainly was a huge earthquake.
Title: Re: Earthwake in Alaska yesterday!
Post by: Sailfish on January 24, 2018, 01:48:51 PM
A “small tsunami, with a wave height of less than eight inches” does not sound like much of a tsunami. But that certainly was a huge earthquake.

Sometimes the low wave tsunami that penetrates further inland can cause more damages than the big wave!

https://www.nytimes.com/video/multimedia/100000000718650/tc-031111-tsunamiclips.html
Title: Re: Earthquake in Alaska yesterday!
Post by: SlackedTide on January 24, 2018, 07:10:25 PM
I thought about going to go get ghost shrimp... but reading bout the earthquake made me change my mind...
Title: Re: Earthwake in Alaska yesterday!
Post by: NowhereMan on January 25, 2018, 12:38:14 PM
A “small tsunami, with a wave height of less than eight inches” does not sound like much of a tsunami. But that certainly was a huge earthquake.

Sometimes the low wave tsunami that penetrates further inland can cause more damages than the big wave!

https://www.nytimes.com/video/multimedia/100000000718650/tc-031111-tsunamiclips.html

The scroll across the bottom on the video says that tsunami was as high as 4 meters.