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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: colmbo on January 23, 2018, 11:29:21 AM
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Last night just after midnight my wife and I got to evacuate Valdez, AK due to a Tsunami warning. Luckily it was only a 6 hour drive home through sub-zero temps, very slick roads and blowing snow. :) Oh yeah, turned out there wasn't a tsunami after all.
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Interesting coincidence. I am currently reading a book on the Alaskan earthquake.
At least wasn't an ICBM warning!
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My lady friend back home in Anchorage said the quake lasted over a minute. Pretty scary stuff. I was surprised but relieved to hear there was no significant tsunami afterwords, although I heard rumor that a NOAA buoy registered a 36 foot wave at some point afterwords.
Pretty crazy, but I'm immensely grateful that there was no significant damage.
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I assume you mean this one:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUONRzOXUAAMdF9.jpg)
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An albatross must have picked it up and dropped it. :)
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My lady friend back home in Anchorage said the quake lasted over a minute. Pretty scary stuff. I was surprised but relieved to hear there was no significant tsunami afterwords, although I heard rumor that a NOAA buoy registered a 36 foot wave at some point afterwords.
Pretty crazy, but I'm immensely grateful that there was no significant damage.
In Valdez we didn't feel much movement, just some very light shaking...but it did last for a very, very long time.
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An albatross must have picked it up and dropped it. :)
(http://www.xancrom.com/412th/tsunaminot.jpg)
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Glad you and the Mrs are OK.
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Albatross!
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. . . Oh yeah, turned out there wasn't a tsunami after all.
The news is always filled with interviews of people saying how stupid they were to stay after being told to evacuate. The greatest risk seems to come after an evacuation that turned out to be unnecessary. People just do not want to do it again for nothing.
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Why would you live in a earthquake zone?
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Why would you live in a earthquake zone?
The earth is an earthquake zone
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The news is always filled with interviews of people saying how stupid they were to stay after being told to evacuate. The greatest risk seems to come after an evacuation that turned out to be unnecessary. People just do not want to do it again for nothing.
Thays the people that refuse to evacuate the building when the fire alarm sounds unless they can see the fire. Most fire alarms are also false but it still stupid to ignore it because the next might be a real one..
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I remember those types after hurricane andrew.
They were the ones whining on CNN that the government let them down.
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An albatross must have picked it up and dropped it. :)
Lol. Or pooped on it like an ASOS machine to make it IFR/IMC.
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Turns out there was no wave at the bouy. The instrumentation read the pressure spike from the shake and presented it as a water column increase. The actual water column change was only a couple of centimeters.
There was an article in the Anchorage Daily News (that I can't find now) explaining what happened.
** Found the article (https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2018/01/25/the-case-of-the-phantom-tsunami-why-an-alaska-buoy-showed-a-big-wave-that-wasnt-there/)