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Does anyone else find the way of using tsunami.gov totally baffling? It tells the user almost nothing, and the target of all the hrefs for the supposed messages listed in the map is just the tsunami.gov homepage again. The entire above-the-fold is occupied by the map, and the map tells the user nothing.
0.7m observed about 40 minutes ago.
https://www.tsunami.gov/?p=PHEB/2025/12/08/25342050/2/WEPA40 Shouldn't be too bad; USGS forecasts up to 1 meter tsunami.
Epicentre very deep underground, so shouldn’t be dangerous aside from small tsunamis.
Your comment prompted me to go read about epicenters and I learned something new. The hypocenter of an earthquake is apparently the point of origin of the earthquake and the epicenter is the point on the earth's surface directly above the hypocenter. Had never heard of a hypocenter before.
In case the site gets hugged to death: https://www.tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/2025/12/08/t6yfla/1/WEAK... WEAK53 PAAQ 081430 TIBAK1 Tsunami Information Statement Number 1 NWS National Tsunami Warning Center Palmer AK 630 AM PST Mon Dec 8 2025 ...THIS IS A TSUNAMI INFORMATION STATEMENT FOR ALASKA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WASHINGTON, OREGON AND CALIFORNIA... EVALUATION ---------- * There is no tsunami danger for the U.S. West C…
better link: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000rtdt...
Was in a hotel in Sapporo, almost got thrown out of bed. Lot of people in the hotel lobby now. Considering leaving Hokkaido by air if a Hokkaido and Sanriku Subsequent Earthquake Advisory is issued, don't really want to be in a potential megaquake.
Was in a hotel in Sapporo, almost got thrown out of bed. Lot of people in the hotel lobby now. Considering leaving Hokkaido by air if a Hokkaido and Sanriku Subsequent Earthquake Advisory is issued, don't really want to be in a potential megaquake.