8.3 quake has struck American Samoa about 2 hrs ago

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Submitted by Nor-LA-SD-guy on September 29, 2009 - 1:09pm

8.3 quake has struck American Samoa about 2 hrs ago. tsunami warning, not much news coming out of area, but what they hear is: cars swept to to sea by 5 ft tsunami, this is low lying island,,,, tsunami expected to hit Hawaii about 3 PM, do not know if that is our time or Hawaiian time.

OK sorry but it looks like this was not nearly as bad as I first heard, only 5 ft Tsunami.

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Submitted by Nor-LA-SD-guy on September 29, 2009 - 2:11pm.

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I wonder if the tsunami is
Submitted by scalou on September 29, 2009 - 1:56pm.

I wonder if the tsunami is the direct result of the earthquake or the result of thousand of fat samoans falling in the water after the initial shock-wave...
(average samoan: 400 lbs)

Just heard on Radio, Tsunami
Submitted by Nor-LA-SD-guy on September 29, 2009 - 5:14pm.

Just heard on Radio,

Tsunami advisory issued for California coast after 7.9 Samoan quake

http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_13446...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_pacific_ea...

Towering tsunami waves spawned by a powerful earthquake swept ashore on Samoa and American Samoa early Tuesday, flattening villages, killing at least 34 people and leaving dozens of workers missing at devastated National Park Service facilities.

Cars and people were swept out to sea by the fast-churning waters as survivors fled to high ground, where they remained huddled hours later. Hampered by power and communications outages, officials struggled to assess the casualties and damage.

The quake, with a magnitude between 8.0 and 8.3, struck around dawn about 20 miles below to ocean floor, 120 miles (190 kilometers) from American Samoa, a U.S. territory that is home to 65,000 people, and 125 miles (200 kilometers) from Samoa.

Mike Reynolds, superintendent of the National Park of American Samoa, was quoted as saying four tsunami waves 15 to 20 feet high roared ashore soon afterward, reaching up to a mile inland. Holly Bundock, spokeswoman for the National Park Service's Pacific West Region in Oakland, Calif., said Reynolds spoke to officials from under a coconut tree uphill from Pago Pago Harbor and reported that the park's visitor center and offices appeared to have been destroyed.

Bundock said Reynolds and another park service staffer had been able to locate only 20 percent of the park's 13 to 15 employees and 30 to 50 volunteers.

Look for prices to drop
Submitted by Casca on September 30, 2009 - 5:24am.

Look for prices to drop dramatically in Coronado tomorrow.

Someone asked me what's so
Submitted by Ren on September 30, 2009 - 10:19am.

Someone asked me what's so bad about a 15-foot wave. Some places get them all the time.

Here's a side view of a normal beach wave:

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A tsunami wave looks more like this (once it reaches shallow water):

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It's more of a sudden/temporary increase in the local sea level than a wave, so it has far more weight and energy behind it.