01-20-2022, 08:17 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-20-2022, 08:29 AM by HereOnThePrimalEdge.)
the lack of warning -someone should REALLY figure out what is going on there... no warning until AFTER the first waves hit, though state officials had hours to give some warning
I read an interview with someone at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center who said their models are based on earthquakes, not a major volcanic eruption. They didn’t have a basis of comparison or past experience to work with so couldn’t calculate potential impact or effects. I’ll see if I can find a link, but it’s late so may have to wait until tomorrow.
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Found it:
“The volcano caused tsunami is not the normal type of tsunami that we analyze at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center,” said Chip McCreery, director of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.
He said the tsunami they normally analyze are from large earthquakes — and they have a wealth of tools to do that — but in this case, a tsunami was triggered by an underwater volcanic eruption.
“We had no idea because we did not have information to constrain the source,” McCreery said. “We didn’t know how big the explosion was, what kind of mass of material went on into the sea.”
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2022/01/16...-eruption/
I read an interview with someone at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center who said their models are based on earthquakes, not a major volcanic eruption. They didn’t have a basis of comparison or past experience to work with so couldn’t calculate potential impact or effects. I’ll see if I can find a link, but it’s late so may have to wait until tomorrow.
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Found it:
“The volcano caused tsunami is not the normal type of tsunami that we analyze at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center,” said Chip McCreery, director of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.
He said the tsunami they normally analyze are from large earthquakes — and they have a wealth of tools to do that — but in this case, a tsunami was triggered by an underwater volcanic eruption.
“We had no idea because we did not have information to constrain the source,” McCreery said. “We didn’t know how big the explosion was, what kind of mass of material went on into the sea.”
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2022/01/16...-eruption/