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Hamma
2011-03-11, 09:03 PM
YouTube - Japanese Earthquake Tsunami Wave hits Emeryville

Amazing video.
Peacemaker
2011-03-11, 11:33 PM
"tsunami waves 'SLAM' west coast" on the news tonight.... really... the media in this country is always looking and reaching for something that just aint there.
Rbstr
2011-03-12, 12:27 AM
Yeah seriously what a Tsunami wave we got...
Here's the real thing:
http://webtv.hurriyet.com.tr/2/14617/0/1/boyle-goruntu-ilk-kez-cekildi.aspx

Lets just hope the worst of the troubles are over and they get power back to the coolant systems at that reactor before it gets too far along.
Firefly
2011-03-12, 12:51 AM
Lets just hope the worst of the troubles are over and they get power back to the coolant systems at that reactor before it gets too far along.
Yeah. Poor bastards - getting nuked three times in under a century?
Baneblade
2011-03-12, 01:17 AM
Yeah, it could be HirOHSHIT 2.0
Hamma
2011-03-12, 10:32 AM
"tsunami waves 'SLAM' west coast" on the news tonight.... really... the media in this country is always looking and reaching for something that just aint there.

Yea sensationalism ftl

This is why I try to get my news via other internets sources.

It's still a crazy video to think that wave travelled across the entire ocean.
Firefly
2011-03-12, 11:58 AM
to think that wave travelled across the entire ocean.
... and BOY, are its arms tired!
Hamma
2011-03-12, 12:29 PM
:lol:
Peacemaker
2011-03-12, 07:42 PM
1940s stand up comedy win.
Raymac
2011-03-14, 06:11 PM
"tsunami waves 'SLAM' west coast" on the news tonight.... really... the media in this country is always looking and reaching for something that just aint there.

The news usually does turn things up to 11, but this tsunami did "slam" the west coast. There is some amazing footage from a marina in Santa Cruz where 3-4 ft. waves were tossing the boats around and damaging the docks. Also a guy (albeit a darwin award nominee) died in California when the tsunami swept him out to sea.

I know that spot in Emeryville as I've driven past it a couple hundred times and I've never seen anything like that before. Not as dramatic as some of the other footage out there, but still extremely interesting.
Firefly
2011-03-14, 08:25 PM
WHOA! HOLY FUCKING SHIT! 3-4 FOOT WAVES!! OH MY FUCKING GOD!

Nothing like a mild tropical storm brushing the eastern seaboard to generate a three foot wave. Now, granted... 3-4' waves inside a marina is cause for alarm, generally they're supposed to be sheltered ports.
Baneblade
2011-03-14, 08:31 PM
That's not even surfing size.
BUGGER
2011-03-15, 07:03 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgt8qBSZEn0&feature=player_embedded

Supposibly Crescent City's harbor, near the California/Oregon border got it worse. There's a cool time lapse video of the tide rushing into the harbor in a matter of seconds.
Manitou
2011-03-15, 09:02 AM
The incredible thing is, this wave was generated by an event over 5000 miles away. It traveled the whole way across the Pacific Ocean and affected a continent on the other side of the world.

Whether it was labeled "small" or not, this is an amazing event.
Firefly
2011-03-15, 10:47 AM
The incredible thing is, this wave was generated by an event over 5000 miles away. It traveled the whole way across the Pacific Ocean and affected a continent on the other side of the world.

Whether it was labeled "small" or not, this is an amazing event.
There's nothing to stop the wave. So, you generate sufficient force to create a big-ass wave, and since there's precious little to stand in its way, it's got nowhere to go until it hits something (or other conditions are met like subsurface temperature changes, amplification becoming too great to support the wave thereby causing it to topple, etc).
Manitou
2011-03-15, 11:25 AM
There's nothing to stop the wave. So, you generate sufficient force to create a big-ass wave, and since there's precious little to stand in its way, it's got nowhere to go until it hits something (or other conditions are met like subsurface temperature changes, amplification becoming too great to support the wave thereby causing it to topple, etc).
True, and with the depth of the Pacific the wave can travel with speed and yet remain seemingly innocuous on the surface until it reaches shallow shores where the energy is focused and the wave is forced upward.

Nonetheless it is a terrible and awe-inspiring event.
Firefly
2011-03-15, 11:52 AM
Nonetheless it is a terrible and awe-inspiring event.
Yes indeed.
Raymac
2011-03-15, 12:50 PM
WHOA! HOLY FUCKING SHIT! 3-4 FOOT WAVES!! OH MY FUCKING GOD!

Nothing like a mild tropical storm brushing the eastern seaboard to generate a three foot wave. Now, granted... 3-4' waves inside a marina is cause for alarm, generally they're supposed to be sheltered ports.

C'mon dude. You seem to be a smart guy who has spent a fair amount of times outdoors. I would think you would understand the difference between a 3-4' wave, and a 3-4' tsunami swell. The latter has quite a bit more power behind it as you can see in the vid that Bugger so kindly put up.