California tsunami warning! (cancelled)

[NAILER341]

what the hell?!

[sarah]

eh?

[NAILER341]

http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/ca...m_display.html

7.0 quake in eureka.
coastal southern ca tsunami warning. more info to come.
potential for tsunami at apx 10:20 in the san pedro area

[NAILER341]

http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/message.txt

[NAILER341]

Wepa41 Paaq 150256
Tsuwca

To - Tsunami Warning System Participants In
Alaska/british Columbia/washington/oregon/california
From - West Coast And Alaska Tsunami Warning Center/noaa/nws
Subject - Tsunami Warning Bulletin - Initial
Bulletin Number 1
Issued 06/15/2005 At 0256 Utc

...a Tsunami Warning Is In Effect For The Coastal Areas
From The California-mexico Border To The North Tip Of
Vancouver I.-bc. Inclusive...

...a Tsunami Watch Is In Effect For The Coastal Areas From
The North Tip Of Vancouver I.-bc. To Sitka-ak...

...at This Time This Bulletin Is For Information Only For
Other Areas Of Alaska...

[COLOR=DarkRed]Earthquake Data
Preliminary Magnitude - 7.4
Location - 41.3n 125.7w - 90 Miles Nw Of Eureka-ca.
300 Miles Nw Of San Francisco-ca.
Time - 1851 Adt 06/14/2005
1951 Pdt 06/14/2005
0251 Utc 06/15/2005[/COLOR]

Evaluation
It Is Not Known - Repeat Not Known - If A Tsunami Exists But A
Tsunami May Have Been Generated. Therefore Persons In Low
Lying Coastal Areas Should Be Alert To Instructions From Their
Local Emergency Officials. Persons On The Beach Should Move To
Higher Ground If In A Warned Area. Tsunamis May Be A Series Of
Waves Which Could Be Dangerous For Several Hours After The
Initial Wave Arrival.

$$
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353-356-450-455-550-530-535-555-670-673-650-655-750-waz001-
002-005-006-007-008-009-010-011-013-014-015-016-021-orz001-
002-021-022-caz001-002-005-007-006-075-074-009-034-035-039-
040-046-041-042-043-150456-
Coastal Areas From The California-mexico Border To The
North Tip Of Vancouver I.-bc. Inclusive.

...a Tsunami Warning Is In Effect For The Coastal Areas
From The California-mexico Border To The North Tip Of
Vancouver I.-bc. Inclusive...

Estimated Times Of Initial Wave Arrival
Crescent City-ca 2029 Pdt Jun 14 Astoria-or 2154 Pdt Jun 14
Charleston-or 2044 Pdt Jun 14 Tofino-bc 2157 Pdt Jun 14
San Francisco-ca 2123 Pdt Jun 14 San Pedro-ca 2200 Pdt Jun 14
Seaside-or 2126 Pdt Jun 14 La Jolla-ca 2214 Pdt Jun 14
Neah Bay-wa 2148 Pdt Jun 14

[sarah]

The Tsunami Warning And Watch Status Is Canceled For
California - Oregon - Washington - British Columbia - And
Alaska...

[JeepJunkie]

Heeey!!! I have cousins in Eureka! I should call them up and ask about it...I'll see if i can get ahold of them and I will post whatever i find out!

[jeepdawg]

They interrupted network programming up here to announce it. The newcaster looked scared as hell, even though there's no way it would have made it into Puget Sound. Apparently towns all up and down the coast were evacuating to higher ground. Too bad they don't have more accurate means of predicting these things.

[JeepGal]

wow...at least it was cancelled. They didnt run a bulletin or anything:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...lifornia_quake

Tam

[TJSUPE]

That was crazy last night! That was the last thing I expected to hear.

Glad it didnt turn into anything major.

[RatherBeJeeping]

It's the latest craze in scare tactics.

[seapahn]

I'm on Maui right now and they gave us the warning last night ... that was "interesting" until they said there's no destructive tsunami to worry about this time

I was ready to jump in the jeep (rental) and head straight for the mountain!

[blackZZR]

After the big event last year we are going to get these warnings everytime there is a off shore earthquake. To avoid lawsuits.
It will be trendy for a few years, then they will be ignored again.
Unfortunately the news needs sensationalism, look at your local news, it has nothing really of value in it, just car chases and Micheal Jackson. Would a trail of a child molester in Hemet make the news?
If you want real news you have to get the BBC feed or something that is not dependent on ratings like PBS, and the feds just jerked the funding for PBS. Kinda wonder if they are making it hard for us to get real news.
I think most americans could care less about what is going on anyway.
For an experiment, ask someone at work what the name of their represenative in Sacramento is.
Then ask them if they voted last time.
But they will bitch if something is not to their liking.

::getting off soap box::