Earthquake in Japan, Tsunami watch in Hawaii...
Jan 12th, 2007, 09:28 PM
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Earthquake in Japan, Tsunami watch in Hawaii...
Just heard this on our news...Honolulu is under a tsunami watch due to 8.4 earthquake. No other info yet. I pray a quake that big didn't hit a city.
Jan 12th, 2007, 09:31 PM
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Oops, guess that was the teaser info...now they say the quake was about 330 miles from Japan. Any Tsunami will arrive here about midnight, and will arrive in Dutch harbor, Alaska about an hour earlier.
Jan 12th, 2007, 09:48 PM
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Here is the news from CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapc...pan/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapc...pan/index.html
Jan 12th, 2007, 09:49 PM
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My husband is on a job project in the Aleutians, north of Dutch Harbor.. I talked to him tonight before news of the quake..
funny, there was a recent quake around Dutch Harbor a couple days ago around 1 a.m., and he didn't feel it.
Otfen, it is so windy out there that the buildings shake and you figure it is just the wind.
Having lived out there for many years, we were evacuated occasionally for tsunami watch if it was above a 7.0.
I was a young child during the 1964 Alaska quake which I remember to this day.. it was upgraded to a 9.2.~lots of devastation in coastal areas from tsunamis.
I will update when I learn more.. there is no cell service out there, only land lines, so I may not hear til late tonight or tomorrow morning. J.
funny, there was a recent quake around Dutch Harbor a couple days ago around 1 a.m., and he didn't feel it.
Otfen, it is so windy out there that the buildings shake and you figure it is just the wind.
Having lived out there for many years, we were evacuated occasionally for tsunami watch if it was above a 7.0.
I was a young child during the 1964 Alaska quake which I remember to this day.. it was upgraded to a 9.2.~lots of devastation in coastal areas from tsunamis.
I will update when I learn more.. there is no cell service out there, only land lines, so I may not hear til late tonight or tomorrow morning. J.
Jan 12th, 2007, 10:16 PM
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state of Hawaii under Tsunami watch, if there is a tsunami it will hit kauai around midnight, then oahu, maui and the big island 45 minutes later. the news is warning people not to go surfing during a tsunami!?!
hope your hubby's o.k. jet!
hope your hubby's o.k. jet!
