Pacific under tsunami threat after massive 8.8 quake strikes Chile

[lefty]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/27/chile.quake/index.html?hpt=T1

[Libri]

latest report, 82 dead

[benefactor]

Waves in Hawaii are predicted to hit between 5 and 6pm(central).

[Cry Havoc]

http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=147700

[CuckingFunt]

We've got a tsunami advisory where I am due to the earthquake. I'd be very surprised if anything real big happened here, but I got a good view of the beaches when I was driving around and running errands today -- the ocean is definitely a bit angry. I could see big, active waves far out where it's normally pretty still.

[IronMexican]

I'm about 15-20 minutes from the beach. I think I'm safe.

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

At the rate things are going U of A will be a beach college by the time I graduate.

[MiamiHeat]

this thing in hawaii is gonna be awesome though, i mean in relation of news coverage

there are going to be tons of cameras rolling in hawaii, all waiting for the tsunami.

[Wild Cobra]

There wasn't much happening in Hawaii, was there?

I should have known better. Tsunami's are a threat because of the continental shelves. Hawaii is all sea mountains. You don't get the same type of wave formations.

Has there ever been a serious Tsunami that hit Hawaii? It doesn't seem like they can ever get one like Indonesia got, just because of the under sea terrain difference.

Am I wrong?

[spursfan09]

There wasn't much happening in Hawaii, was there?

I should have known better. Tsunami's are a threat because of the continental shelves. Hawaii is all sea mountains. You don't get the same type of wave formations.

Has there ever been a serious Tsunami that hit Hawaii? It doesn't seem like they can ever get one like Indonesia got, just because of the under sea terrain difference.

Am I wrong?

I was listening to some of the coverage, and they were mentioning one that happened in the 60's. Don't really know the damage or the seriousness though.

[CubanMustGo]

http://www.pdc.org/iweb/tsunami_history.jsp


In Hawaii, tsunamis have accounted for more lost lives than the total of all other local disasters. In the 20th century, an estimated 221 people have been killed by tsunamis. Most of these deaths occurred on the Big Island during the tsunamis of 1946 and 1960, two of the largest tsunamis to strike in the Pacific.

1946

The tsunami of 1946 was generated by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake in the Aleutian Islands. This tsunami struck the Big Island of Hawaii on April 1st. The tsunami flooded the downtown area of Hilo killing 159 people and causing more than $26 million in damages.

1952

On November 4, 1952 a tsunami was generated by a magnitude 8.2 earthquake on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the USSR. In Hawaii, property damage from these waves was estimated at $800,000-$1,000,000 (1952 dollars); no lives were lost. The waves beached boats, caused houses to collide, destroyed piers, scoured beaches, and moved road pavement.

1957

On March 9, 1957 a tsunami was generated by a magnitude 8.3 earthquake in the Aleutian Islands. It generated a 8-m (24 feet) tsunami that did great damage on Adak Island, especially to the fuel and oil docks. The Hawaiian Islands incurred about $5,000,000 of damage in 1957 dollars. The highest wave in Hawaii was 3.6 m (12 feet).

1960

The tsunami of May 23, 1960 was generated by a magnitude 8.3 earthquake in Chile. The 35 foot tsunami struck Hilo, Hawaii causing severe damage. 61 deaths were recorded and $23 million in damage occurred. In the area of maximum destruction, only buildings of reinforced concrete or structural steel, and a few others sheltered by these buildings, remained standing - and even these were generally gutted. Frame buildings were either crushed or floated nearly to the limits of the flooding.

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