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I am reminded of a law enforcement guy in 1983 in Galveston who told a surfer wanting to go into the water as Hurricane Alicia approached "I should just shoot you here. At least we will be able to find your body.".
Correct. The news and national weather forecasts have been full of reports about recent strong Pacific storms causing flooding and damage along the West Coast for days, but some still think surf like that would result from an earthquake???? Guess some people truly do live under a tectonic plate!
Plus, there were similar events along the CA coast last winter, as well. No quake, but plenty of really oversized waves. On the central coast, they even took out a chunk of a cliffside city street. Fortunately, the city decided to forego replacing it, or the replacement might have got washed out this winter, sending money as well as rocks and asphalt down the drain.
Not exactly. But perhaps two separate quakes caused by a shifting of the Pacific Plate, which would affect Japan and California.
So sorry, but tsunami waves/seismic slop just doesn't happen before sea floor displacement occurs. Storm waves/high surf has been battering CA for several days. Japan's most recent quakes occurred "today" (depending which side of the International Date Line you're on). Seismic buoys across the Pacific closer to N America certainly would detect the quakes, but they didn't trigger alerts for N America. Tsunami alerts were issued for Japan's western coast (Sea of Japan), not eastern. Those waves would pose potential hazards for Korea or China, not N America.
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"But look at it, Johnny. Look at it! It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, man! Just let me go out there. Let me get one wave before you take me. One wave. I mean, where I am I gonna go, man?"
Lol! I've seen that movie but didn't remember much about it. I thought it was probably from that, but I had to look it up to confirm.
Maybe this ties in with the concurrent thread about American obesity, and all the heavyweights tried doing jumping jacks as part of a new year's resolution causing shock waves to ripple across the ocean to Japan and then back again. LOL
Would make a great Sci-Fi movie premise, at least. I'd watch it with popcorn.
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So tsunamis reached CA before some quake responsible for generating them even occurred? I'd call that unusual!
