TSUNAMI WARNING Ca coast 8 AM 3-11

They say it's coming. Don't know how big. 8:15 or so in San Fran. Watch out!

Japan videos were just amazing to see it happen in real time. Stuff wiped out before your eyes.

Gonna go watch this from the parking lot at salmon creek on the am.

What caused it?

 

  Big freakin earthquake 7+ in Japan somewhere.  Last time a tsunami warning was given in Santa Cruz county, people rushed to the beach to watch it!    All that really happened was the tide seemed to roll way out farther than a normal low tide.  The amount of beach exposed was awesom.

  Big freakin earthquake 7+ in Japan somewhere.  Last time a tsunami warning was given in Santa Cruz county, people rushed to the beach to watch it!    All that really happened was the tide seemed to roll way out farther than a normal low tide.  The amount of beach exposed was awesom.

8.9 Earthquake to be exact

just talked to friends in Tokyo-- still stuck in office. They said that there was a big shake, biggest they'd ever felt then it eased up, then went crazy...stuff literally flying all over- they were all on the 26th and 29th floors of an office building. Luckily they and all their families are ok.
The internet never went down, power for about 10 min, and the phones even stayed up

people in santa cruz evacuating  to  summit .   

  8.9....  Wow   unbelievable...

 the video is shocking,  just imagine a 8.9 here...

and " The Big Moon... " is on the 19....

Good luck Brothers. Remember, head down and don't stop paddling. 

Definitely  a sad day in Japan!

I wonder how this will affect the perch derby this Saturday. With all the after shock and the possibility of Tsunami I'm kinda hesitant to walk the seashore. Goodluck and be safe.

regards
Alex

Be safe coastal dudes!

I'll make sure i bring the vhf radio to listen for any update.  And if i see the water receding and perch flopping I'm grabbing the bigest BSP and getting the hell Out!

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Live update from Carmel, so far so good.

Thanks for the update.  See you there later after the warnings are removed.

Rey

Latest update....

TOKYO – A ferocious tsunami spawned by one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded slammed Japan's eastern coast Friday, killing hundreds of people as it swept away boats, cars and homes while widespread fires burned out of control.

Hours later, the tsunami hit Hawaii and warnings blanketed the Pacific, putting areas on alert as far away as South America, Canada, Alaska and the entire U.S. West Coast. In Japan, the area around a nuclear power plant in the northeast was evacuated after the reactor's cooling system failed.

Police said 200 to 300 bodies were found in the northeastern coastal city of Sendai, the city in Miyagi prefecture (state) closest to the quake's epicenter. Another 110 were confirmed killed, with 350 people missing. Police also said 544 people were injured.

The magnitude-8.9 offshore quake unleashed a 23-foot (seven-meter) tsunami and was followed by more than 50 aftershocks for hours, many of them of more than magnitude 6.0.

Dozens of cities and villages along a 1,300-mile (2,100-kilometer) stretch of coastline were shaken by violent tremors that reached as far away as Tokyo, hundreds of miles (kilometers) from the epicenter.

A large section of Kesennuma, a town of 70,000 people in Miyagi, burned furiously into the night with no apparent hope of the flames being extinguished, public broadcaster NHK said. A witness told the broadcaster that the fire began after the tsunami knocked over several cars, causing them to leak oil and gas. The fire started hours later and rescuers have yet to arrive, according to NHK.

"The earthquake has caused major damage in broad areas in northern Japan," Prime Minister Naoto Kan said at a news conference.

The government ordered thousands of residents near a nuclear power plant in Onahama city to move back at least two miles (three kilometers) from the plant. The reactor was not leaking radiation but its core remained hot even after a shutdown. The plant is 170 miles (270 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo.

Trouble was reported at two other nuclear plants as well, but there was no radiation leak at either.