7.9 eartquake Chile

[Opihikaobob]

Tsumani Watch
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/e...al_summary

[beejee]

I just heard the emergency broadcast over the radio as well. Still premature...

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

A TSUNAMI WATCH IS ISSUED FOR THE STATE OF HAWAII EFFECTIVE AT
0108 PM HST.

IF TSUNAMI WAVES IMPACT HAWAII THE ESTIMATED EARLIEST ARRIVAL OF
THE FIRST TSUNAMI WAVE IS

0228 AM HST THU 17 SEP 2015

http://ptwc.weather.gov/?region=2

[MattKarma]

7.9 shouldn't be too bad, I was in Thailand in 2004 when the 9.2 hit of Aceh Provence in Indonesia. More than a quarter million died, actually had a flight to PhiPhi day before... was feeling sick, I missed the flight.

[PaulW]

USGS link says 8.3 now

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

National Data Buoy Center
Four Buoys are currently in Tsunami Event Mode:

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

One of the buoys off Chile showed a spike of 20 meters or 60 feet (a single reading does not indicate a tsunami, wait for other buoy readings)
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=32401&type=2&seriestime=20150916230045

If a tsunami has been generated, new arrival time to Hawaii would be:
0306 AM HST THU 17 SEP 2015

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Preliminary estimate for height of tsunami (if any) in Hawaii is 1-3 feet:

* TSUNAMI WAVES REACHING 0.3 TO 1 METERS ABOVE THE TIDE LEVEL
ARE POSSIBLE FOR SOME COASTS OF

... HAWAII...
http://ptwc.weather.gov/ptwc/text.php?id...09.16.2347

[dmbwest]

Saw this one ... Amazing : https://twitter.com/MorganKIRO7/status/6...gr%5Etweet

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

In a grocery store in Chile as it happened.
The tremor lasted a long, long time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=43&v=CLv42ZLdNkE