Hawaii orders evacuations in Pacific tsunami threat.
Hawai. Tsunami hiting the Coast of California. Philippines warning. Tsunami warning north of Point Conception, watch to the south | abc7. LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A tsunami arrived along the California coast on Friday and swept at least four people watching the waves out to sea, and docks were ripped out of harbors, as the destruction of the Japanese earthquake spread to the U.S. Ventura Harbor Patrol reported a large surge of water minutes after 7 p.m. Friday. The Harbor Patrol reported a 7.2-foot change in the water level in about seven minutes' time. No boats were overturned and no damage was reported. The water began to recede immediately afterward. The tsunami warning for coastal areas and harbors north of Point Conception had been downgraded to a tsunami advisory, according to the National Weather Service. At 1:36 a.m. The NWS earlier reported that tsunami levels in those areas have dropped to below 3 feet, but warns that tsunami wave surges, which can produce dangerous currents and changes in sea levels, had been occurring.
Damage estimates in Crescent City were in the millions. (Copyright ©2014 KABC-TV/DT. Tags: Japan earthquake live blog: At least 32 killed. An 8.9-magnitude earthquake hit northern Japan today, triggering tsunamis that sent a wave filled with boats and houses toward land. Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast are under a tsunami warning. Are you in an affected area? Send an iReport. Read the full report on how the quake hit Japan and generated a Pacific-wide tsunami. [11:01 p.m. . [10:01 p.m. Lucy Craft, a freelance correspondent in Tokyo, has a teenage son at a high school near the epicenter in Sendai, northeast of Tokyo.
"The phone lines are still down. . . . [10:32 p.m. Roads and buildings showed cracks as far away as 200 kilometers (125 miles) from Sendai, the closest city to the epicenter. Shoppers were polite but tense as they sought food, water and gasoline from stores where shelves were quickly emptied and pumps soon ran dry. [9:20 p.m. "This is the most terribible earthquake we've had," Ichiro Fujisaki told CNN's Piers Morgan. "We are mobilizing all we can. " [8:30 p.m. . [7:45 p.m. . [6:50 p.m. . [6:45 p.m. . [6:15 p.m. . [5:15 p.m. Weather. Composite Plot. LIVE BLOG: Hawaii Tsunami. 5:18 p.m. First-Person Account from Tokyo The father of Civil Beat reporter Robert Brown gave a brief account of his experience in Tokyo since the earthquake. Here's what the former Honolulu resident, Stan Brown, told us: “All the subways, because they’re extraordinarily efficient here in Japan, were shut down literally immediately.
So that’s the good thing. But then the challenge was, everybody, I was in a taxi heading back to my office and the taxi driver, you know the car really started to rock... “And then as people started to pour into the streets, the biggest challenge was that you have tens of thousands of people in the streets, the hotels were full, taxis were full and there’s no subway. “There were structure fires. "It was by far the worst violent shaking I’ve ever seen.” 5:13 p.m. Now that the danger is past, social media talk about Hawaii's tsunami warning is at a trickle. "Who's doing fundraisers today and this weekend for the earthquake relief effort? 5:11 p.m. 4:57 p.m. News and Talk of Sonoma County.
Text.php?id=pacific.2011.03.11. West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Information. Japan earthquake: tsunami warning for New Zealand and Australia. San Francisco’s Tsunami Inundation Map (Literally Not Figuratively) at SocketSite™ December 18, 2009 San Francisco’s Tsunami Inundation Map (Literally Not Figuratively) By way of the California Emergency Management Agency, California Geological Survey, and University of Southern California: San Francisco’s Tsunami Inundation Map. The inundation map has been compiled with best currently available scientific information. The [red] inundation line represents the maximum considered tsunami runup from a number of extreme, yet realistic, tsunami sources. Pink is potentially problematic. . ∙ Tsunami Inundation Map for Emergency Planning: San Francisco [ca.gov] ∙ Treasure Island: Sold To The Bidder Across The Bay For $105M (Plus) [SocketSite] First Published: December 18, 2009 12:00 PM Posted by: curmudgeon at December 18, 2009 12:02 PM Ahhh...
Posted by: Invented at December 18, 2009 12:44 PM I'm no geologist, but doesn't the direction of the wave play a huge role in where/how much is inundated by a tsunami? So confused. Posted by: anonyman at December 18, 2009 1:05 PM Post a comment. Warnings issued for at least 20 countries after quake. Tsunami demolishes Japan's north coast NEW: Chile upgraded a tsunami warning to an alert for residents of Easter Island, CNN Chile reportsNEW: Some 200 vessels are impacted at Oahu's Keehi LagoonNEW: Warnings are downgraded to advisories for Hawaii, the coastal areas of California and OregonAdvisories are in effect at the California-Mexico border and Washington to Alaska Have you been affected? Send your video, pictures to iReport. (CNN) -- Tsunami waves that raced across the Pacific Ocean triggered warnings in more than 50 countries and territories Friday, but there were few immediate reports of major damage outside of Japan.
The National Weather Service warnings were later downgraded to advisories for the U.S. state of Hawaii, and the coastal areas of California and Oregon. Advisories also were in effect along the California-Mexico border and in the coastal areas of Washington, British Columbia and Alaska, the weather service reported. Breakdown of tsunami warnings After events of a quake. UPDATE 1-Philippines upgrades tsunami warning level. Pacific Rim, Including Hawaii, Under Tsunami Warning. Tsunami Times - Japanese Earthquke - NOAA Warning Includes Alaska, California and Oregon TMV Live Blogging on the earthquake and tsunami ** 8.30 am Pacific Waves should begin hitting the UW mainland.
Waves with an amplitude of at least six feet (1.82 meters) hit Maui earlier this morning. ** 1.29 am Pacific At 07:30 UTC (11.30 PST) the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a “widespread tsunami warning” for the Pacific rim. At 12:51AM PST Friday, the NOAA West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center confirmed a warning for California and Oregon from Point Concepcion, California to the Oregon-Washington border. There is an advisory for Washington, British Columbia and Alaska from the Oregon-Washington border to Amchitka Pass, Alaska (125 miles W of Adak).
A warning means that people should immediately move away from the beach or other low-lying regions to higher ground that is inland and away from all harbors and inlets. Note to NOAA: put a byline, URL and date on images like this one. National Weather Service Watch Warning Advisory Summary.