Chile Earthquake and Tsunami Warning for Feb. 27, 2010

[Kaukura]

Re: Chile Earthquake and Tsunami Warning for Feb. 27, 2010

looking up Maunakea St in chinatown, its virtually deserted.

[Adri]

Re: Chile Earthquake and Tsunami Warning for Feb. 27, 2010

TV news says they're gonna shut off the water on Maui so fill up your containers if you're on Maui!

[Kelly0040]

Re: Chile Earthquake and Tsunami Warning for Feb. 27, 2010

Thinking of you guys - stay safe!

[Kalalau]

Re: Chile Earthquake and Tsunami Warning for Feb. 27, 2010

In looking over the Atlas of Hawaii, vol. 2, the 1960 Chile 9.5 quake produced "recorded heights of tsunami run-up in feet" in the range of 12 to 13 ft. on the se coast of the Big Island, to 16 at Kealakekua Bay and 7 at Hilo, in the 11 to 9 ft. range on southern Maui, 6 to 12 on southern O'ahu and up to 14 at southern Kaua'i. Since this 8.8 quake was smaller than the 1960 quake one maybe run-ups will be a bit lower. The truly large run-ups are from the 1946 Aleutian quake, up to 55 near Pololu on the Big Island and 53 near Hanalei Bay on Kaua'i.

[U'ilani]

Re: Chile Earthquake and Tsunami Warning for Feb. 27, 2010

I'm watching the news via live streaming here:

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/Global/category.asp?C=176904

[helen]

Re: Chile Earthquake and Tsunami Warning for Feb. 27, 2010

KHON, KITV, KHNL/KFVE/KGMB are now broadcasting live news of this event, as well as the Civil Defense sirens going on for the second time today.

[Peshkwe]

Re: Chile Earthquake and Tsunami Warning for Feb. 27, 2010

Y'all keep yer feet dry!!

*hoping it fizzles out and ends up just mildly rough seas for a while*

[DannyWilliams]

Re: Chile Earthquake and Tsunami warning for 02/26-27/10

My hearts go out to EVERYONE that the Tsunami Expected will not and hope not touch the Hawaiian Islands.... I have friends, families, my Sam Goody friends that I worked with, & classmates that I went to school with from Aiea High 1986 that still reside on the islands.....

MSNBC says that Ewa Beach is gonna get hit first vs. a News Link Clip of KGMB/KHNL says Hilo is gonna get hit first.....

[MyopicJoe]

Re: Chile Earthquake and Tsunami warning for 02/26-27/10

Heh heh. I wonder if Mufi will rush back to Hawaii as fast as he rushed over to Hanauma Bay.

[TATTRAT]

Re: Chile Earthquake and Tsunami warning for 02/26-27/10

thinking of you all!

[matapule]

Re: Chile Earthquake and Tsunami warning for 02/26-27/10

Predicted impact time for tsunami in Cabo, Mexico, came and went with no evidence of tsunami. Just another nice day in a paradise location.

[LikaNui]

Re: Chile Earthquake and Tsunami warning for 02/26-27/10

The official website for the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center is at http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/ . They posting regular updates and that's the site to follow during this situation.
The earthquake in Chile was at the same location that caused the last tsunami that hit Hilo and killed so many people, according to KGMB.
There are already looong lines at all the gas stations and stores are already crowded with folks getting emergency supplies. Many of the 'big box' stores opened around 4am.
Good luck, everyone...

[Adri]

Re: Chile Earthquake and Tsunami warning for 02/26-27/10

Hope everyone has water, rice, toilet paper and batteries! Stay safe!

[naunca]

I'm sure you will all see it on the news this am but a tsunami warning has been issued for the islands.

more information here...
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/message....27.125041.txt

and here...
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/?region=2

chris

There's another (larger) thread on this topic under the "Around the Rim" section.

[helen]

Re: Chile Earthquake and Tsunami warning for 02/26-27/10

Just came back from Don Quijote to stock up on bottled water and canned soda. It seems that everyone else who was there also was buying bottled water.

KHON now has Joe Moore on doing a live report with the help of someone else who's name I can't remember.

KFVE and KHNL are showing the Today show, KITV is showing paid programming and KGMB is showing CBS's Early show but all these stations are displaying text crawls.

And Joe Moore just mentioned that KHON is in or close to a tsunami flood zone.

So far KHON is reporting that Civil Defense will sound the sirens at 6am HST and the first wave is expected to hit Hilo around 11:19 am.