My friend lives in Hawaii but she's asleep and I can't reach her. :( Do they have warning sirens there for this stuff?
What does this mean?Tsunami warnings for zones A, B, C and D of British Columbia coast.
BULLETIN
TSUNAMI MESSAGE NUMBER 3
NWS PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER EWA BEACH HI
110 AM HST TUE JAN 23 2018
TO - EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IN THE STATE OF HAWAII
SUBJECT - TSUNAMI WATCH CANCELLATION
THE TSUNAMI WATCH IS CANCELLED FOR THE STATE OF HAWAII EFFECTIVE
AT 0110 AM HST.
AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS
NOTE REVISED EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE
ORIGIN TIME - 1132 PM HST 22 JAN 2018
COORDINATES - 56.0 NORTH 149.2 WEST
LOCATION - GULF OF ALASKA
MAGNITUDE - 7.9 MOMENT
MEASUREMENTS OR REPORTS OF TSUNAMI WAVE ACTIVITY
GAUGE LOCATION LAT LON TIME AMPL PER
------------------- ----- ------ ----- --------------- -----
DART 46403 52.6N 156.9W 1024Z 0.03M / 0.1FT 08MIN
DART 46410 57.6N 143.8W 1008Z 0.04M / 0.1FT 06MIN
DART 46409 55.3N 148.5W 0944Z 0.12M / 0.4FT 04MIN
LAT - LATITUDE (N-NORTH, S-SOUTH)
LON - LONGITUDE (E-EAST, W-WEST)
TIME - TIME OF THE MEASUREMENT (Z IS UTC IS GREENWICH TIME)
AMPL - TSUNAMI AMPLITUDE MEASURED RELATIVE TO NORMAL SEA LEVEL.
IT IS ...NOT... CREST-TO-TROUGH WAVE HEIGHT.
VALUES ARE GIVEN IN BOTH METERS(M) AND FEET(FT).
PER - PERIOD OF TIME IN MINUTES(MIN) FROM ONE WAVE TO THE NEXT.
NOTE - DART MEASUREMENTS ARE FROM THE DEEP OCEAN AND THEY
ARE GENERALLY MUCH SMALLER THAN WOULD BE COASTAL
MEASUREMENTS AT SIMILAR LOCATIONS.
EVALUATION
BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE DATA THERE IS NO TSUNAMI THREAT TO THE
STATE OF HAWAII. THEREFORE... THE TSUNAMI WATCH FOR HAWAII IS NOW
CANCELLED.
THIS WILL BE THE FINAL MESSAGE ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT UNLESS
ADDITIONAL DATA ARE RECEIVED.
If there's a tsunami, it will hit land in the next few minutes. The first hit will be Kodiak, in Alaska. Local reports say the entire town has been evacuated
The first tsunami observations are coming in. In Old Harbor, Alaska, waves of half a foot were detected, the tsunami centre says.
First waves were supposed to hit 15 mins ago so let's hope everyone's okayIf it happened 2 hours ago you'd think it would've hit by now.
So far so good. Hope it stays that way.
Also with a grain of salt but apparently some of the tsunami buoys were turned off because of the government shutdown and not turned back on yet.