News tsunami warning northern california coast

[gorobei]

7.0 quake off the coast in the pacific ocean, tsunami possibility hitting at 12:10pst, anyone coastside or bayside asked to move inland or be 30 feet above sea/bay level.
they evacuated the animals at the sf zoo which is near the beach.

stay safe all.

 

[Indus]

Tsunami warning cancelled apparently.

Seems more like a Foreshock.

 

[gorobei]

it was pretty far north, the wave if there was one would have been running parallel to the coast. glad there wasnt a 30ft wave, that would have been a mess.

 

[manly]

Seems just a touch south of the Cascadia subduction zone, thought to be capable of megathrust earthquakes every 400 to 500 years.

The last time was in 1700:

1700 Cascadia earthquake - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[hal2kilo]

Seems just a touch south of the Cascadia subduction zone, thought to be capable of megathrust earthquakes every 400 to 500 years.

The last time was in 1700:

1700 Cascadia earthquake - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Tick, toc.

 

[skyking]

<hurries to put in siesmic bracing in new structure>.

 

[hal2kilo]

<hurries to put in siesmic bracing in new structure>.

I at least need to strap my hot water heater.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

We get these pretty regularly around the bay thanks to various earthquakes around the pacific rim.

Was WFH today, continued WFH today, nothing happened. If we had a history of Tsunamis here then I think it would have been worth taking more seriously, but I think our coastline just isn't conducive to the kind of waves Japan/Indonesia get, and the major faultlines are more inland/onshore than out in the ocean.

It's pretty funny when the news stations send an anchor and camera crew out to the beach for these events. Like... if this were an actual Tsunami do you just expect your anchor and camera crew to die?

Also, discovered that we have absolutely no functional Tsunami warning network or plan out here. More confusion and panic from the lack of clear messaging than anything else.

 

[BoomerD]

7.0 quake off the coast in the pacific ocean, tsunami possibility hitting at 12:10pst, anyone coastside or bayside asked to move inland or be 30 feet above sea/bay level.
they evacuated the animals at the sf zoo which is near the beach.

stay safe all.

I live in coastal WA state. IIRC, my house is at about 15' elevation. A REAL tsunami will be devastating for us here. The local facebook pages blew up with the tsunami warnings...until it cancelled...yet, some people continued to post it.

 

[gorobei]

i felt the initial tremors, minor rumble and swaying shake in multiple pulses over 10 sec. nothing too bad but the longer they last the more you worry about it being the big one.
apparently the epicenter was near the junction of 3 plates, so there can be way more types of movement vs 2 plate slip-strike. the low rolling movement is what spared us from the tsunami.

 

[nakedfrog]

I live in coastal WA state. IIRC, my house is at about 15' elevation. A REAL tsunami will be devastating for us here. The local facebook pages blew up with the tsunami warnings...until it cancelled...yet, some people continued to post it.

/looks down on you smugly from 200' above sea level

 

[IronWing]

/looks down on you smugly from 200' above sea level

Taunts you from 3300'.








Except we could really use a tsunami to put out these forest fires. 🌊 ️‍🔥

 

[nakedfrog]

Taunts you from 3300'.








Except we could really use a tsunami to put out these forest fires. 🌊 ️‍🔥

I live a 90 minute drive from him... and downtown here is 16' above sea level

 

[APU_Fusion]

We get these pretty regularly around the bay thanks to various earthquakes around the pacific rim.

Was WFH today, continued WFH today, nothing happened. If we had a history of Tsunamis here then I think it would have been worth taking more seriously, but I think our coastline just isn't conducive to the kind of waves Japan/Indonesia get, and the major faultlines are more inland/onshore than out in the ocean.

It's pretty funny when the news stations send an anchor and camera crew out to the beach for these events. Like... if this were an actual Tsunami do you just expect your anchor and camera crew to die?

Also, discovered that we have absolutely no functional Tsunami warning network or plan out here. More confusion and panic from the lack of clear messaging than anything else.

This earthquake was also a strike-slip earthquake with side to side movement versus upward and downward so water was not displaced massively thus reducing tsunami effects. Ps. I am no geologist

 

[Indus]

This earthquake was also a strike-slip earthquake with side to side movement versus upward and downward so water was not displaced massively thus reducing tsunami effects. Ps. I am no geologist

Interesting.. I was theorizing it might be the foreshock to the Cascadia megathrust that's just about due.

 

[BoomerD]

Interesting.. I was theorizing it might be the foreshock to the Cascadia megathrust that's just about due.

Shut your filthy whore mouth!

 

[APU_Fusion]

Interesting.. I was theorizing it might be the foreshock to the Cascadia megathrust that's just about due.

Statistically we are not ready for mega thrust earthquake. Like Yellowstone you can’t extrapolate from average years between events that we are overdue. At least that is what geolists I watch say

 

[repoman0]

I’m in socal for a few days for work and reading this thread makes me extra excited to GTFO and get back to New England. No thanks to giant earthquakes.

 

[hal2kilo]

/looks down on you smugly from 200' above sea level

Almost 500'.