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M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued

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Re: M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued

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Post by xav0989 »

wging wrote: post #12
lordswork wrote: post #6

https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/maps is getting a hug of death :( If anyone gets on, please post a screenshot.

The USA also has a site that seems to be up at the moment. Without seeing the CA version I'm not sure how it differs, but I suspect it's possible for Canadians to get some useful local information from it: https://www.tsunami.gov/

Anything that ends in .gov is related to a government entity in the US. Other countries don’t get access to that TLD.

Re: M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued

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Post by sugarpimpdorsey »

decimalenough wrote: post #17

Japan forecasting tsunamis up to 3m across basically the entire eastern coast. First waves will hit within 10 minutes. https://www.nhk.or.jp/kishou-saigai/tsunami/ https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/live/ (live, Japanese) https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/live/ (live, English) The east coast is also where the vast majority of Japan's population lives, and was previously hit by the 2011 tsunami (Fukushima and all that). We'…

Japanese news reporting during disaster scenarios is something to behold.

The screen is filled with data and blinking like a Bloomberg Terminal.

Re: M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued

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Post by BalinKing »

ac29 wrote: post #15
yinser wrote: post #4

That is _really_ big. It will likely crack the top 8 ever recorded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_earthquakes

By magnitude it would be the second largest on that list

The first list on that page is specifically for the deadliest earthquakes, and so it only includes earthquakes with 100,000+ fatalities. The ranking by magnitude is farther down (and according to that list, a magnitude of 8.8 would make it tied for sixth place).

Re: M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued

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Post by russellbeattie »

yinser wrote: post #4

That is _really_ big. It will likely crack the top 8 ever recorded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_earthquakes

From videos online so far, it seems the strength of the quake didn't translate to massive lateral movement. There seemed to be lots of intense P-wave wiggling and bumping rather than large S-wave swings back and forth. The big Japan quake was one of those, where you saw offices being slid back and forth and everything flying off shelves.

Not sure what that means for the tsunami - but so far it seems less intense than the 8.8 would imply.

Re: M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued

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Post by vasusen »

My wife decided to not travel to Japan due to an impending warning from a manga for July 2025. I have been making fun of her all month only to get this tsunami warning now!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2025_Japan_megaquake_prop....

> The 2021 reprint capitalizing off this revived popularity warned of a "real disaster" in July 2025, causing a minor case of mass hysteria in 2025 when summer trips to Japan from East Asia decreased markedly and several airlines even cancelled flights.

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