What time did the earthquake/tsunamis hit?

[Muse]

Unbelievably, I wasn't able to find this out reading the S.F. Chronicle and I didn't hear it reported on any telecasts. The closest I've heard is sometime Sunday morning. What time was the earthquake and at what times did the tidal waves hit various population centers?

 

[FoBoT]

tidal waves travel at about 500 miles per hour
i don't know the details, the earthquake web site should give the lat/long of the source quake

 

[Fritzo]

NEW INFORMATION:

The wave wasn't caused by a quake! It was caused by Michael Moore doing a canonball off of his yacht!

Good thing he didn't do a belly flop...would have taken out Australia and Africa too.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
tidal waves travel at about 500 miles per hour
i don't know the details, the earthquake web site should give the lat/long of the source quake

Links?

Actually, tidal waves CAN travel up to possibly 600 MHP, but it depends a lot on the depth of the water. In shallower water they slow down and build up height. In really deep water they go very fast but have minimal height (maybe a couple of feet).

Note: They never say this on TV, etc. but the water itself doesn't travel at 300-600 MPH, just the wave forms. I think the fastest that the water would actually flow would be 30-40 MPH when the waves are crashing at the shoreline. That's my guesstimate.

 

[FoBoT]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/usslav/

this is the details from the USGS web site

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/usslav/

this is the details from the USGS web site

That's what I was looking for. Thanks!

When the earthquake hit I and 6 other people were just being seated in a Chinese restaurant (The Silver Dragon) in Oakland's Chinatown to have dinner. The earthquake hit at 4:59 PM, Saturday PST and we had a 5:00 PM reservation. We were totally unaware. Funny thing is I don't believe there was any mention of it in Sunday's S.F. Chronicle, delivered almost 15 hours later.

Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 7:58:53 AM
= local time at epicenter

Edit: There was a small article in Sunday's Chronicle on this that greatly underestimated the event. It was on page 2 of the first section and looks to be around 500-600 words. The headline read: "Big quake hits Indonesia - hundreds reported dead" the the byline indicated it was furnished by the Associated Press.

 

[Muse]

From USGS:

OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 00:58:53 (UTC) - Coordinated Universal Time
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 07:58:53 AM local time at epicenter
North America:
Saturday, December 25, 2004 at 09:28:53 PM (NST) - Newfoundland Standard (St. John's)
Saturday, December 25, 2004 at 08:58:53 PM (AST) - Atlantic Standard (Halifax, San Juan)
Saturday, December 25, 2004 at 07:58:53 PM (EST) - Eastern Standard (New York, Toronto, Jamaica)
Saturday, December 25, 2004 at 06:58:53 PM (CST) - Central Standard (Chicago, Mexico City, Guatemala)
Saturday, December 25, 2004 at 05:58:53 PM (MST) - Mountain Standard (Denver, Phoenix, Calgary, Mazatlan)
Saturday, December 25, 2004 at 04:58:53 PM (PST) - Pacific Standard (Los Angeles, Vancouver, Tijuana)
Saturday, December 25, 2004 at 03:58:53 PM (AKST) - Alaska Standard (Anchorage)
Saturday, December 25, 2004 at 02:58:53 PM (AHST) - Aleutian Standard (Adak)
Saturday, December 25, 2004 at 02:58:53 PM (HST) - Hawaii Standard (Honolulu)
South America:
Saturday, December 25, 2004 at 07:58:53 PM - Bogota, Quito, Lima
Saturday, December 25, 2004 at 08:58:53 PM - Caracas, Manaus, La Paz
Saturday, December 25, 2004 at 09:58:53 PM - Belem, Buenos Aires, Santiago
Saturday, December 25, 2004 at 10:58:53 PM - Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo
Europe:
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 12:58:53 AM - London, Lisbon
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 01:58:53 AM - Madrid, Rome, Berlin, Warsaw
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 02:58:53 AM - Kiev, Istanbul, Athens
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 03:58:53 AM - Moscow, St. Petersburg
Africa:
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 12:58:53 AM - Casablanca, Abidjan
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 01:58:53 AM - Algiers, Lagos, Kinshasa
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 02:58:53 AM - Cairo, Lusaka, Cape Town
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 03:58:53 AM - Addis Ababa, Nairobi
Asia:
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 02:58:53 AM - Ankara, Damascus
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 03:58:53 AM - Baghdad, Riyadh
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 04:28:53 AM - Tehran, Mashhad
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 04:58:53 AM - Samara, Baku, Tbilisi, Muscat
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 05:28:53 AM - Kabul
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 05:58:53 AM - Yekaterinburg, Tashkent, Karachi
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 06:28:53 AM - Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 06:58:53 AM - Novosibirsk, Almaty, Dhaka
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 07:58:53 AM - Krasnoyarsk, Bangkok, Jakarta
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 08:58:53 AM - Irkutsk, Beijing, Manila, Singapore
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 09:58:53 AM - Chita, Seoul, Tokyo
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 10:58:53 AM - Vladivostok, Guam
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 11:58:53 AM - Magadan
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 12:58:53 PM - Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy
Australasia/Oceania:
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 08:58:53 AM - Perth
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 10:28:53 AM - Darwin
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 10:58:53 AM - Port Moresby, Brisbane
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 11:28:53 AM - Adelaide
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 11:58:53 AM - Sydney, Melbourne, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 12:58:53 PM - Fiji
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 01:58:53 PM - Auckland, Christchurch
Saturday, December 25, 2004 at 01:58:53 PM - American Samoa
Saturday, December 25, 2004 at 02:58:53 PM - Tahiti