[meteorite-list] Tsunami alert

From: Matthew Martin <mmartin_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:09:20 -1000
Message-ID: <CA3EACE0-9759-4997-BBF6-6B9B5AA06585_at_meteoritetreasures.com>

Things are getting pretty busy here on Oahu. Lines at gas stations are horribly long and several gas stations have run out of gas already. Boats are evacuating harbors...The City & County has evacuation busses going around the island. The coastal roads will close in an hour. There's still crazy people out surfing! And no, I'm not talking about Gary. ;) Police helicopters are out telling the surfers to go in?

The Earth shook a lot yesterday... 8.8 in Chile last night, a 7.0 near Okinawa yesterday (no tsunami generated), and a 2.5 near the southeast coast of the Big Island yesterday. The Okinawa earthquake is the largest they've had in over 100 years.

To my fellow list members in the islands, take care and stay safe.

Aloha,

Matthew Martin
Kaneohe, Hawaii



On Feb 27, 2010, at 7:59 AM, Gary Fujihara wrote:

> Wow! Thanks for the link Darren. Looks like Hawaii misses the brunt of the full force, but our brothers and sisters in Marquesas, Tahiti and Samoa may feel it more.
>
> On Feb 27, 2010, at 7:57 AM, Darren Garrison wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:33:27 +0000, you wrote:
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>>>
>>> The sirens just went off; Hawaii is expecting a tsunami by 11:00 a.m. locally. We have about 5 hours to evacuate if needed. I'm bugging out after we pack and will be offline for a while. The big problem locally is if the power plant gets inundated, as it is in the flood plain/ central valley of Maui.
>>
>> A computer model of energy released here:
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>> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/02/27/magnitude-8-8-earthquake-off-chile-coast/
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