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RE: Major earthquake off Pacific NW coast - Kelena - 10-31-2012 My point was simply that there is more than one way to skin a cat, which will come as bad news to the cat. The sirens didn't work as intended. Despite that, most were aware of the emergency. It is true that not everyone is as connected to this technology, thank heavens, but my point remains: they are now of secondary or tertiary importance. I never suggested that we shouldn't push for them, especially and most ironically in the areas directly affected, but I seriously doubt that most people on Kaloli Point would have first learned of the earthquake and resulting mini-tsunami through a siren placed on Da Point. All of my immediate neighbors seemed quite aware of the earthquake, and not because they heard a siren. And many sirens NOT on Da Point were not working. I am all for the placement of as many sirens in as many places as the island can afford, but these are becoming of less importance as time goes on. The fact remains that when a tsunami warning issues the police come through, a helicopter flies by, blinking like the spaceship in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Da Point gets special attention from Hawaii County Civil Defense. A siren, while desirable and audible from the interior of my home, was the last thing to tell me I needed to pack up. I knew that at about 7:30 or so, via my smartphone. I did not hear the siren until much later. Let's maintain and augment the sirens, if we can, but let's accept reality: Most people learned of the tsunami-ette through other means. RE: Major earthquake off Pacific NW coast - pahoated - 11-01-2012 This is an interesting graphic of the Ring of Fire. It shows the most recent earthquakes over 7 and there is a clockwise direction in them, with the recent northern British Columbia quake as another data point. http://www.sott.net/image/image/s3/61222/full/ring_of_fire.jpg This (older) graphic shows some more, pointing out with all of this activity, the Juan de Fuca plate running down the US west coast hasn't had a major quake in 50 years. Could be good, could be a lot of pressure building up. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aPW89u_Jcgc/TYIqJ2PP60I/AAAAAAAABC0/aCoLXqwkbHo/s1600/ring_of_fire.gif RE: Major earthquake off Pacific NW coast - Kapohocat - 11-01-2012 quote: I am glad we have at least one crumudgeon! Cant get too hearts and flowers! Other than some logistics on sirens, the NW watch meeting in KV had only minor questions: 1) drunk people at party ? Cant send them on their way down the road. Since it was Halloween party time, because of the road blocks cops got a lot more DUI drivers although CPO said it was because of defiant drunks at road block, than just drunk at road block. 2) Some kind of way to let people know that your house knows so the same house doesnt keep getting checked, and one missed. 3) Letting people in at 9:15 who were at a party in Pahoa come down to get dogs and overnight bags. And them being told they had to walk 2 miles from 4 corners in to get dogs and clothes. (I guess the party heard about it at around 8:30 - 8:45 PM.) Overall it did not seem that much went awry in our 'hood on oct 27 based on Betty's NW presentation. RE: Major earthquake off Pacific NW coast - hikatz - 11-01-2012 I keep my homepage on http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/ It records the latest data from the earthquake reporting stations around the world. |