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While the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center does not believe we're in for a tsunami, based on known data at this point in time, they do caution people on Hawaii's coast to be aware of erratic currents etc. beginning around 10:28 p.m. tonight.
Here's their notice:
EVALUATION
THE WEST COAST AND ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER HAS ISSUED A
REGIONAL TSUNAMI WARNING AND/OR WATCH AND/OR ADVISORY FOR OTHER
PARTS OF THE PACIFIC LOCATED CLOSER TO THE EARTHQUAKE. BASED ON
ALL AVAILABLE DATA THERE IS NO DESTRUCTIVE TSUNAMI THREAT TO
HAWAII.
HOWEVER... SOME COASTAL AREAS IN HAWAII COULD EXPERIENCE SMALL
NON-DESTRUCTIVE SEA LEVEL CHANGES AND STRONG OR UNUSUAL CURRENTS
LASTING UP TO SEVERAL HOURS. THE ESTIMATED TIME SUCH EFFECTS
MIGHT BEGIN IS
1028 PM HST SAT 27 OCT 2012
THIS WILL BE THE ONLY STATEMENT ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT UNLESS
ADDITIONAL DATA ARE RECEIVED.
Stay safe, everyone...
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The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has changed upgraded Hawaii to a tsunami warning based on new data!
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Meant to make this bigger!!!
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has upgraded Hawaii to a tsunami warning!!! as of 7:09 p.m. Data coming in shows a tsunami headed our way. Here is the printout:
BULLETIN
TSUNAMI MESSAGE NUMBER 3
NWS PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER EWA BEACH HI
709 PM HST SAT OCT 27 2012
TO - CIVIL DEFENSE IN THE STATE OF HAWAII
SUBJECT - TSUNAMI WARNING
A TSUNAMI WARNING IS ISSUED FOR THE STATE OF HAWAII EFFECTIVE AT
0709 PM HST. THIS UPGRADE IS DUE TO THE SEA LEVEL READINGS
RECEIVED AND THE RESULTING CHANGE IN THE HAWAII TSUNAMI
FORECAST.
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Yep...It's been upgraded. It's gonna hit Hawaii. But they don't know how big or where. Im surprised the sirens haven't gone off.
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I got a phone call at 7:09 from County of Hawaii but no messsage, just dead line - good thing they put a crawl on the TV or I'd've missed the whole thing!
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the earthquake was a 7.7 off of BC Canada Coast, followed by a 5.8 ten minutes later & a 4.8 just after 6pm
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/27/qua...ada-coast/
expected arrival 10:28 initial 3' wave to possibly 6' impact off of Kahului
http://www.kitv.com/news/hawaii/Tsunami-...index.html
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Cat, are you and Robert heading up the hill?
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It is strange that the sirens went and went forever on the last Tsunami and it was just a Tsunami "watch". This time it is a full on warning and no sirens at all so far.
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Deborah, actually, there are no sirens anywhere yet, just the CD warnings on the media. I did call some down on the point... it is probably good to have CD phone alerts if you are down in the zone... I tried to call Cat... hopefully they are packing... there is no evacuation request on the warnings yet...BUT ANYONE DOWN SHOULD BE PREPPING TO GO UP NOW (if you do not have a packed bag...)....
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Carey, I've talked to folks in Kona who have sirens going off right now and in HNL. None over here east side so far..hmmm..
