7.4 Quake off California Coast--Tsunami Warning Issued

[kurtyboy]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Quakes/at00000363.htm

A major earthquake occurred at 02:50:56 (UTC)<6:50 PDT> on Wednesday, June 15, 2005. The magnitude 7.4 event has been located OFF THE COAST OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.)

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WEPA41 PAAQ 150256
TSUWCA

TO - TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEM PARTICIPANTS IN
ALASKA/BRITISH COLUMBIA/WASHINGTON/OREGON/CALIFORNIA
FROM - WEST COAST AND ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
SUBJECT - TSUNAMI WARNING BULLETIN - INITIAL
BULLETIN NUMBER 1
ISSUED 06/15/2005 AT 0256 UTC

...A TSUNAMI WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE COASTAL AREAS
FROM THE CALIFORNIA-MEXICO BORDER TO THE NORTH TIP OF
VANCOUVER I.-BC. INCLUSIVE...

...A TSUNAMI WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE COASTAL AREAS FROM
THE NORTH TIP OF VANCOUVER I.-BC. TO SITKA-AK...

...AT THIS TIME THIS BULLETIN IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY FOR
OTHER AREAS OF ALASKA...

EARTHQUAKE DATA
PRELIMINARY MAGNITUDE - 7.4
LOCATION - 41.3N 125.7W - 90 MILES NW OF EUREKA-CA.
300 MILES NW OF SAN FRANCISCO-CA.
TIME - 1851 ADT 06/14/2005
1951 PDT 06/14/2005
0251 UTC 06/15/2005

EVALUATION
IT IS NOT KNOWN - REPEAT NOT KNOWN - IF A TSUNAMI EXISTS BUT A
TSUNAMI MAY HAVE BEEN GENERATED. THEREFORE PERSONS IN LOW
LYING COASTAL AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT TO INSTRUCTIONS FROM THEIR
LOCAL EMERGENCY OFFICIALS. PERSONS ON THE BEACH SHOULD MOVE TO
HIGHER GROUND IF IN A WARNED AREA. TSUNAMIS MAY BE A SERIES OF
WAVES WHICH COULD BE DANGEROUS FOR SEVERAL HOURS AFTER THE
INITIAL WAVE ARRIVAL.

$$
PZZ130-131-133-134-132-135-150-153-156-110-250-210-255-350-
353-356-450-455-550-530-535-555-670-673-650-655-750-WAZ001-
002-005-006-007-008-009-010-011-013-014-015-016-021-ORZ001-
002-021-022-CAZ001-002-005-007-006-075-074-009-034-035-039-
040-046-041-042-043-150456-
COASTAL AREAS FROM THE CALIFORNIA-MEXICO BORDER TO THE
NORTH TIP OF VANCOUVER I.-BC. INCLUSIVE.

...A TSUNAMI WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE COASTAL AREAS
FROM THE CALIFORNIA-MEXICO BORDER TO THE NORTH TIP OF
VANCOUVER I.-BC. INCLUSIVE...

ESTIMATED TIMES OF INITIAL WAVE ARRIVAL
CRESCENT CITY-CA 2029 PDT JUN 14 ASTORIA-OR 2154 PDT JUN 14
CHARLESTON-OR 2044 PDT JUN 14 TOFINO-BC 2157 PDT JUN 14
SAN FRANCISCO-CA 2123 PDT JUN 14 SAN PEDRO-CA 2200 PDT JUN 14
SEASIDE-OR 2126 PDT JUN 14 LA JOLLA-CA 2214 PDT JUN 14
NEAH BAY-WA 2148 PDT JUN 14
$$
PKZ032-031-042-034-033-035-041-036-AKZ023-024-025-026-028-
029-027-150456-
COASTAL AREAS FROM THE NORTH TIP OF VANCOUVER I.-BC. TO
SITKA-AK.

...A TSUNAMI WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE COASTAL AREAS FROM
THE NORTH TIP OF VANCOUVER I.-BC. TO SITKA-AK...

ESTIMATED TIMES OF INITIAL WAVE ARRIVAL
LANGARA-BC 2244 PDT JUN 14 KETCHIKAN-AK 2257 ADT JUN 14
SITKA-AK 2227 ADT JUN 14
$$
PKZ176-175-172-170-171-155-150-132-136-138-137-130-141-140-
120-121-129-127-125-126-128-052-051-053-022-012-043-013-
011-021-AKZ191-185-181-171-145-111-101-121-125-131-135-017-
020-018-019-021-022-150456-
COASTAL AREAS FROM SITKA-AK. TO ATTU-AK.

...TSUNAMI INFORMATION STATEMENT...

NO - REPEAT NO - TSUNAMI WATCH OR WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR
THE COASTAL AREAS FROM SITKA-AK. TO ATTU-AK.

FOR INFORMATION ONLY - ESTIMATED TIMES OF INITIAL WAVE ARRIVAL
YAKUTAT-AK 2317 ADT JUN 14 CORDOVA-AK 0007 ADT JUN 15
KODIAK-AK 2332 ADT JUN 14 DUTCH HARBOR-AK 0013 ADT JUN 15
JUNEAU-AK 2334 ADT JUN 14 COLD BAY-AK 0034 ADT JUN 15
SEWARD-AK 2339 ADT JUN 14 ADAK-AK 0038 ADT JUN 15
VALDEZ-AK 2357 ADT JUN 14 HOMER-AK 0044 ADT JUN 15
SAND PT.-AK 2358 ADT JUN 14 SHEMYA-AK 0119 ADT JUN 15
$$

THE PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER AT EWA BEACH HAWAII WILL
ISSUE BULLETINS FOR OTHER AREAS OF THE PACIFIC.

BULLETINS WILL BE ISSUED HOURLY OR SOONER IF CONDITIONS
WARRANT. THE TSUNAMI WATCH/WARNING WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT
UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. REFER TO THE INTERNET SITE
WCATWC.ARH.NOAA.GOV FOR MORE INFORMATION AND ETA SITES.

http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/message.txt

[Blue_In_AK]

1. That's a pretty good shaker...

Good thing it wasn't on land.

[Gregorian]

2. Wow, something is pretty screwed up here...

It isn't in Oregon. And it's going to happen tomorrow. No wonder I didn't feel a thing.

[Joebert]

3. Note the time zone... UTC. :-)

[Gregorian]

5. I did. Don't you add 8 hours...oh yeah.

I guess the pre-edited title had me confused.

[kurtyboy]

39. The Tsunami Warning has been lifted---now only a Tsunami Bulletin

Per Bill Steele, University of Washington seismologist. Via Northwest Cable News @ 8:40 PM.

[acmavm]

4. Okay, someone please explain this. It says that it HAS occurred

tomorrow??? What is UTC? Where is this place that is confirming this quake.

I know that I'm to blame here, I just don't know if its from ignorance or Alzheimers.

[Joebert]

12. Check out...

http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl

[acmavm]

15. Thanks. But where is it? Is it Greenwich time?

.

[Joebert]

22. Yes, but now the Atomic equivalent of that time zone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC

[haele]

19. UTC is greenwich mean time "Universal Time Clock"

To figure for Pacific Daylight Savings time (PDT), subtract 7 hours. Normal Pacific time, subtract 8 hours.
So, it happened at 19:50:26 or 7:50:56pm local time.

BTW, it's been downgraded to a 7 pointer as of 8:25 pm PDT.

Haele

[thebaghwan]

44. I thought UTC stood for Uniform Time Converted which is the same as

Greenwich Mean Time?

[AngryAmish]

57. Greenwich Mean Time just sounds cooler

[Davis_X_Machina]

94. Universal Temps Coordiné

The SI people (Systeme Internationale) folks who guard the metric system are based just outside Paris.é

[pinniped]

125. Also Coordinated Universal Time.

.

[Proud_Lefty]

6. Am I missing something?

Wednesday isn't here yet.

[99Pancakes]

7. Sensationalism!!

Not!!!!!!!!!!!!

[doublethink]

13. Okay is that picture real or photo shopped?

:shrug: I'm on the coast of Cali, San Diego ..... but up on a hill pretty high. I'll keep an eye on the waves from here. And thanks to the OP for the heads up. Peace. :)

[99Pancakes]

25. borrowed it

from some Google friends!
;-)

[uppityperson]

36. Tidal surge, NOT tsunami.

Still, don't go down to look.

[doublethink]

45. Thanks for the advice .......

:scared: .... everything seems pretty calm from here, can still see the Roller Coaster at Mission Bay Park. Still standing. After looking at the map I think the N. Cal people should be more concerned though. Prayers.

[MisterP]

29. cable TV did a NWS alert

so much for sensationalism (good thing I'm on a big hill of rubble).
downgraded to 7.0

[99Pancakes]

37. Is this San Diego?

[doublethink]

51. No that doesn't look like San Diego ....

but damn if it was what a great wave to catch on my surf board !!!!!! Hey maybe I will go down and check things out on the beach! :bounce:

[MisterP]

58. now look what you've done!

;)

[Scout1071]

8. That sounds like a pretty heavy duty quake.

I can only hope that the tsunami will be no where near as devastating as the Asian tsunami.

[aquart]

9. My sister just told me. So I came here to check.

She's in SD, but they're calling their Northern California friends.

[whistle]

10. Looks like two quakes in the last hour....this one was inland

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Maps/US10/37.47.-130.-120.html


http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Quakes/nc51161168.htm

Recent Earthquake Activity in the USA


Magnitude 3.9 - NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
2005 June 15 02:57:00 UTC
Preliminary Earthquake Report
California Integrated Seismic Net
USGS/ Caltech/ CGS/ UCB/ UCSD/ UNR

A minor earthquake occurred at 02:57:00 (UTC) on Wednesday, June 15, 2005. The magnitude 3.9 event has been located in NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 4 km ( 2 miles). (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.)




Magnitude 3.9
Date-Time Wednesday, June 15, 2005 at 02:57:00 (UTC)
= Coordinated Universal Time
Tuesday, June 14, 2005 at 7:57:00 PM
= local time at epicenter

Location 38.848°N, 122.823°W
Depth 3.6 km (2.2 miles)
Region NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Distances 6 km (4 miles) NNW (345°) from The Geysers, CA
9 km (6 miles) W (279°) from Cobb, CA
14 km (9 miles) NW (305°) from Anderson Springs, CA
18 km (11 miles) ENE (72°) from Cloverdale, CA
46 km (28 miles) NNW (347°) from Santa Rosa, CA
122 km (76 miles) WNW (286°) from Sacramento, CA

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 0.5 km (0.3 miles); depth +/- 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Parameters Nst= 17, Nph= 17, Dmin=4 km, Rmss=0.1 sec, Gp=158°,
M-type=duration magnitude (Md), Version=2
Source California Integrated Seismic Net
USGS/ Caltech/ CGS/ UCB/ UCSD/ UNR

Event ID nc51161168

[Pachamama]

75. They say if there is a Tsunami, it will be here in the next 20 minutes!

:scared:

[whistle]

131. Here is where???

...hopefully no tsunami

[Pachamama]

134. San Francisco Bay Area....

....it got canceled about 5 minutes after I posted....phew...

[NV Whino]

79. Those little quakes are from the geysers

We get them all the time. No big deal, but I can't keep any pictures straight in my house. (I'm in Napa Valley.)

[whistle]

133. Oh man that would drive me batty.....

[NV Whino]

136. Most of the time you don't even feel them

But straightening my pictures all the time does drive me batty.

[KoKo]

11. Geeze this looks for real. Is 7.4 that big? How does it compare

with the one in Indonesia..was that a 9?

I've never ever heard of a Tsunami alert in the US...It's quite frightening. My prayers are with our West Coast DU'ers that it doesn't come or is no more than a small wave action. :-(

[Gregorian]

16. It's exponential. So a bit less than a hundred times as strong.

But if this keeps up, the property I'm trying to buy might be under water.

[daleo]

27. Underwater topography plays a role, too.

As does the depth of the earthquake, and some other variables. I sure hope nothing happens.

[Journeyman]

35. Google tsunami and California, historical record. . .

and ocean topography and you'll understand why -- here in the Southland -- I'm not concerned at all. Further north, along the Northwest coast and especially in British Columbia, there's a much greater chance of an event.

[PsN2Wind]

55. Crescent City, Ca

was devastated by the wave generated by the 1964 Alaska quake.

[LeftyMom]

56. The Loma Prieta quake in 1989

was a 7.1 and it ruined tons of houses, caused fires, collapsed a freeway in Oakland and a section of the Bay Bridge.

So 7.4 is pretty freakin' big. A 9 is catastrophic.

[fooj]

117. Lived through that one!

We were rockin' for days...it was awful! Lived about 10 miles from the epicenter! Now I live a few blocks from the beach! What timing!

peace.

[Scout1071]

14. Any networks covering yet?

[Scout1071]

17. Scrolling on CNN now

[BrotherBuzz]

23. Extensive radio coverage in Northern California

Tsunami warings from CHP etc...still developing.

[Scout1071]

26. Still nothing more than a brief scroll on CNN. Nothing on MSNBC.

I NEVER stop on Faux, so someone else is going to have to look at that crap.

[BrotherBuzz]

33. Maybe Faux is rolling a news crew to the coast....

One can hope!!! :evilgrin:

[uppityperson]

18. Tuesday, June 14, 2005 at 6:50:54 PM local time @ epicenter

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2005/usziae/

[rainbow4321]

40. Looks like there was one near Alaska earlier today? 6.8

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2005/uszhcb/


Magnitude 6.8
Date-Time Tuesday, June 14, 2005 at 17:10:17 (UTC)
= Coordinated Universal Time
Tuesday, June 14, 2005 at 8:10:17 AM
= local time at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 51.309°N, 179.413°E
Depth 51.7 km (32.1 miles)
Region RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
Distances
70 km (45 miles) S of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska
95 km (60 miles) SE of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska
2175 km (1350 miles) WSW of Anchorage, Alaska
3015 km (1870 miles) W of JUNEAU, Alaska

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 5.8 km (3.6 miles); depth +/- 8.1 km (5.0 miles)
Parameters Nst=224, Nph=224, Dmin=246 km, Rmss=0.98 sec, Gp= 32°,
M-type=moment magnitude (Mw), Version=8
Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

[evolvenow]

108. HAARP? DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO CHECK IF IT WAS TRIGGERED? Seriously

[Xithras]

122. Nothing short of a nuke could have triggered that.

Tin foil paranoia aside, HAARP doesn't have enough energy to trigger an earthquake. These things are ativated FAR below the surface of the rock...the Cali quake was epicentered 10 miles underground, and the Alaska quake more than 30. At that depth, even a surface explosion wouldn't release enough energy to displace any appreciable amount of rock...certainly no low-frequency radio signal is going to do it.

Earthquakes are normal. Even big ones.

[evolvenow]

128. Tesla methods, Scalar, Haarp, Elf, Gwen, Take your pick, they planned 9/11

and I would not put anything past the Fascist's who are losing ground, with DSM as proof of their illegal war, innocent people dying everyday for NO DAMN REASON, images from Gitmo, Arnie plummeting, Soc. Security going under, the deficit exploding, the murderers may be scrambling for another tragedy.

Before that sounds crazy, ask yourself how in the world these people have STOLEN at least 2 presidential elections, waged 2 illegal wars killing over 120,700 people in order to occupy a country for their resources, used Enron scandal and Bankrupted CA energy, installed a Dictator as Gov with Op-scan machines, ousted Shelley who was trying to get rid of the illegal voting machines, passed a prop that allows DNA samples to be taken from anyone arrested and could use the Patriot act to round up and jail anyone without any fair trial or representation,? These acts are insane. Earthquakes can be triggered underground, in the rocks, under the ocean, this stuff is classified and will not be found on FAUX or any newspaper. They have had the technology for many, many years, and not just our own country. They are bent on destroying CA, and with it's propensity towards seismic activity, who would know? But that is just my opinion, and many others.


http://www.bariumblues.com/telegeodynamics.htm

The January 1978 edition of Specula magazine ran an article describing an incredibly profound phenomenon that could be produced within the Earth by what is called the 'Tesla Effect.' According to the article, electromagnetic signals of certain frequencies can be transmitted through the Earth to form standing waves in the Earth itself. In certain cases, coherence to this standing wave can be induced wherein a fraction of the vast, surging electromagnetic current of the Earth itself feeds into and augments the induced standing wave. In other words, "much more energy is now present in the standing wave than the ...amount being fed in from the Earth's surface." By interferometer techniques, giant standing waves can be combined to produce a focused beam of very great energy. This can then be used to produce earthquakes induced at distant aiming points.

Tesla expressed grave concerns about the effects of this technology because it is exactly the type of thing that could easily get out of control once it begins vibrating within the Earth - and it could actually cause the Earth to vibrate to pieces. Could the use of this technique have been responsible for the great earthquake in Tangshan, China in 1976?

Another leading Tesla researcher and nuclear engineer, Lt. Col. Thomas Bearden, lecturing at a Symposium of the US Psychotronics Association (USPA) in 1981 stated:

Tesla found that he could set up standing waves. in the earth (the molten core), or, just set it up through the rocks - the telluric activity in the rocks would furnish activity into these waves and one would get more potential energy in those waves than he put in. He called the concept the Tesla Magnifying Transmitter (TMT).

Bearden goes on to explain how TMTs worked:

They will go through anything. What you do is that you set up a standing wave through the earth and the molten core of the earth begins to feed that wave (we are talking Tesla now). When you have that standing wave, you have set up a triode.

What you've done is that the molten core of the earth is feeding the energy and it's like your signal - that you are putting in - is gating the grid of a triode. Then what you do is that you change the frequency. If you change the frequency one way (start to dephase it), you dump the energy up in the atmosphere beyond the point on the other side of the earth that you focused upon. You start ionising the air, you can change the weather flow patterns (jet streams etc) - you can change all that - if you dump it gradually, real gradually - you influence the heck out of the weather. It's a great weather machine. If you dump it sharply, you don't get little ionisation like that. You will get flashes and fireballs (plasma) that will come down on the surfaces of the earth. you can cause enormous weather changes over entire regions by playing that thing back and forth.

(snip)

[Tesla]

129. I did say I could crack the Earth into 2 pieces

didn't I????

[evolvenow]

138. Welcome TEsla, yes you did!

[schrodingers_cat]

20. Wow! check out this link!

This is how it registered on a nearby land recorder....bizarre pattern - Big long duration! WOW!

http://quake.usgs.gov/waveforms/helicorder/KMPB_HHZ_NC_--_00_22221212.html

[Media_Lies_Daily]

34. Went nuts, didn't it?

[rainbow4321]

21. Here's the "recent earthquake" map

http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/latest.htm

[schrodingers_cat]

31. leave it to us West Coasters to

know the earthquake websites.......
:beer: pour me my last drink and get me a boat!!!!!

[kurtyboy]

24. USGS now saying 7.0 Magnitude

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Quakes/usziae.htm

[ariesgem]

28. My mother & I just came back from shopping in Santa Monica

2 blocks from the beach. I was telling her about some new film footage of the tsunami that I saw on-line and we were talking about where we would run if we ever saw a wave coming at us.

It's nice to be home, high in the hills of Altadena.

[othermeans]

30. MY daughter lives in San Diego and they are giving updates on the news

[doublethink]

64. I'm on the coast San Diego no local news coverage on the TV.

just right wing trash on the radio here too, except for Air America. All seems pretty calm down here. Peace. :)

[doublethink]

69. Okay they just covered it locally .......

San Diego is pretty safe. No real warning here. CNN Faux and Msnbc just coved it too ..... Northern Cal more Likely if something to happen. Peace. :)

[Scout1071]

32. Is this a life threatening situation for Northern Cali/Southern Oregon

residents?

[earth mom]

38. That's what I want to know!

I'm in Oregon but more centrally located.

I'm scared and putting on my tinfoilhat, because I've been expecting LIHOP/MIHOP Part 2 The West Coast Version for awhile now! :tinfoilhat:

[uppityperson]

42. Here are some projected times, just stay off the beach.

CRESCENT CITY-CA 2029 PDT JUN 14 ASTORIA-OR 2154 PDT JUN 14
CHARLESTON-OR 2044 PDT JUN 14 TOFINO-BC 2157 PDT JUN 14
These are up in OP. The information I've gathered so far is historically there should be no problem, but then again stay off the beach and up a bit from 8:30-10ish.

[KoKo]

48. It's terrible that the thought of a hoax even comes into one's mind

but given what we've seen, I guess they could be capable of staging some event and screwing up the NOAA and NGS maps...

Living here in Hurricane Country, we take everything seriously, though..so let's hope whatever it is doesn't affect anyone and if it was a hoax it gets investigated.

Is "Ahhnold" in that much trouble? :shrug:

[othermeans]

41. They just broke into our tv newscast and said that [IF] a tsunami is going

to strike it would hit San Francisco around 9:00

[cobaindrain]

53. how serious would this be

because it seems like the quake hit pretty far off the coast, and with the magnitude being lower than the sri lanka quake, perhaps it won't be too bad.

[Penndems]

59. Is that 9:00 p.m. Pacific Time?

As I type this, it's 11:55 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

[Scout1071]

61. Still nothing on the cable networks other than a brief scroll.

I think it's totally irresponsible of them not to be blasting this warning right now to people.

[knight_of_the_star]

52. Looking

I'm near SD and we have the luxury of having a huge underwater canyon nearby, that breaks up tidal surges and hurricanes nicely, but not so sure about further north. Anyone know where to find a good aquatic topo map?

[uppityperson]

96. I read your post first as SD meaning South Dakota

I thought it was really dry humor. Then I figured out you meant San Diego.

[dooner]

66. tsunami warning for entire california, oregon, washington coasts

There is a tsunami warning for the entire west coast, along with
estimated times of arrival. Of course this doesn't mean anything will happen or is predicted... just a warning.

http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/message.txt

[schrodingers_cat]

43. I'm looking at the SF bay right now....

and listening to the A's game - so far no interruptions (they are playing at sea level near the bay) all is calm, and the sun is getting close to setting. No change in water level that I can see from my hill. My nice safe hill.......

[cal04]

46. Residents being evacuated from Crescent City

EUREKA, Calif. -- A major earthquake struck about 80 miles off the coast of Northern California tonight, prompting a tsunami warning along the Pacific coast.

The 7.0-magnitude quake struck at about 7:50 p.m. about 90 miles west southwest of the coastal community of Crescent City, according to the U.S. Geological Survey Web site.


A tsunami warning is in effect from the California-Mexico border all the way north to Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Residents were being evacuated from low-lying areas of Crescent City, KCBS radio reported.

http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/showcase/la-me-quake15jun15,0,3382856.story?coll=la-news-alert

[cobaindrain]

47. hope this never materializes

to all wescoasters, stay safe and dry

[IChing]

49. tsunami warning times for the west coast

.A TSUNAMI WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE COASTAL AREAS
FROM THE CALIFORNIA-MEXICO BORDER TO THE NORTH TIP OF
VANCOUVER I.-BC. INCLUSIVE...

ESTIMATED TIMES OF INITIAL WAVE ARRIVAL
CRESCENT CITY-CA 2029 PDT JUN 14 ASTORIA-OR 2154 PDT JUN 14
CHARLESTON-OR 2044 PDT JUN 14 TOFINO-BC 2157 PDT JUN 14
SAN FRANCISCO-CA 2123 PDT JUN 14 SAN PEDRO-CA 2200 PDT JUN 14
SEASIDE-OR 2126 PDT JUN 14 LA JOLLA-CA 2214 PDT JUN 14
NEAH BAY-WA 2148 PDT JUN 14


EVALUATION
IT IS NOT KNOWN - REPEAT NOT KNOWN - IF A TSUNAMI EXISTS BUT A
TSUNAMI MAY HAVE BEEN GENERATED.


i did not feel it here in the Cenrtal Coast

http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/message.txt

[earth mom]

50. Why are these quakes occurring in the Ocean lately?

That's what I want to know. :tinfoilhat:

[Maple]

62. Well there was a major one

in Sumatra at Christmas...and if you check here:

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

you'll see where the shift has been travelling ever since.

[shanti]

65. yeah

i have my :tinfoilhat: on too.:-(

[all.of.me]

70. i don't know, but there's a lot of pacific activity lately

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

[haele]

81. Subduction Zones...

The strength of the quake is determined by the length of fault. The longest faults are "subduction zones", where the plates meet and grind against each other. They are linked by shorter "transverse" faults.
That being said, my understanding is that the worst along the West Coast US will tend to be along either the San Andreas, which has a long "transverse" fault that comes from the Salton Sea (close to the California/Baja border) out into the ocean around Eureka, CA. that they figure can produce around an 7.8 or so at most - (the 1857 Fort Tejon quake was estimated at 7.6), or the Cascadia Subduction Zone (which is estimated to give us around a 9 at most), which runs closest to the US around the Washington/British Columbia area.
Most likely, this was a slip on the northern edge of the San Andreas, from the location they show.
And of course, damage is minimized because here on the Left Coast, we build for quakes, especially for ones that we are likely to get in our area.


Haele

[ElectroPrincess]

54. Oh goody ...

Another *potential* (good enough) natural disaster for the USA corporate media to keep our eyes off of Bush-Co. :puke:

[uppityperson]

60. Hawaii right before 9:30 Hawaiin time, currents, small changes link

http://www.khnl.com/Global/story.asp?S=3475417
EWA BEACH, Hawaii (AP) - Scientists in Hawaii say the Alaska Tsunami Warning Center has issued a regional tsunami warning and watch following a major earthquake off the Northern California coast.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says that based on all data there is no tsunami threat to Hawaii.

The earthquake occurred off the coast near Eureka with a preliminary magnitude of seven-point-four.

Scientists say some coastal areas in Hawaii could experience small sea level changes and strong or unusual currents that could last several hours.

They say these changes could start happening shortly before 9:30 p-m Hawaii time tonight.

[PartyPooper]

97. I was in Ewa Beach, Hawaii in the early 60's during some tsunamis.

At the time, there were earthquakes in Alaska which was the source. And, this was very "low tech" at the time.

Several times we evacuated to higher ground (Ft. Shafter) and all was well.

But, on the last warning, we did not evacuate. We finished our dinner and went to bed.

And, thank God, it was all okay, because we lived right across the street from the ocean. We could have been washed away!

:scared:

[cobaindrain]

63. They mentioned it during the Mets-A's game

In Oakland of course

[Proud liberal Kat]

67. Maybe I am being overreactive...but shouldn't this be on Greatest...

just in case a tsunami does actually happen and this could alert someone surfing DU but not watching tv or listening to the radio?
I know unlikely but what hurts with a greatest page show?

Kathy

[Pachamama]

68. Holy Sh*t! They just interupted my TV w/ the EBS saying this! I'm about

20 miles to the coast! Thankfully on hills but this is kinda scary! The earthquake was 7+ and was off the coast...wow...this and the 7.9 in Chile yesterday!

Pachamama is pissed (Pachamama is the Quechua/Inca word for Mother Earth)

[cobaindrain]

71. major networks seem to be ignoring it

I dunno, maybe it's a non event? hopefully.

[Cleita]

73. Well, if Crescent City and Eureka were hit, electricity would

be cut off and we won't know what happened to them until some news comes out.

[janx]

72. 7.8 Earthquake Rocks Chile, 6.9 Quake Hits Alaska--

?

Both happened today; posted to Google 10 hours ago.

Alaska has them often. My son lives there. I'm glad he's not in Valdez anymore.

http://freeinternetpress.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3827

[dooner]

74. evacuating Gold Beach and Crescent City (low lying areas)

per KGO radio, San Francisco AM 810

[rainbow4321]

78. "Shake" map

http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/STORE/Xziae_05/ciim_display.html

[janx]

82. Have they established that a tsunami actually exists?

?

[uppityperson]

89. TSUNAMI WARNING DOWNGRADED sorry for yelling

http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/message.txt

TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEM PARTICIPANTS IN
ALASKA/BRITISH COLUMBIA/WASHINGTON/OREGON/CALIFORNIA
FROM - WEST COAST AND ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
SUBJECT - TSUNAMI WARNING BULLETIN - FINAL
BULLETIN NUMBER 2
ISSUED 06/15/2005 AT 0409 UTC

...THE TSUNAMI WARNING AND WATCH STATUS IS CANCELED FOR
CALIFORNIA - OREGON - WASHINGTON - BRITISH COLUMBIA - AND
ALASKA...

EARTHQUAKE DATA
PRELIMINARY MAGNITUDE - 7.4
LOCATION - 41.4N 125.6W - 85 MILES NW OF EUREKA-CA.
300 MILES NW OF SAN FRANCISCO-CA.
TIME - 1851 ADT 06/14/2005
1951 PDT 06/14/2005
0251 UTC 06/15/2005

A SMALL TSUNAMI WAS OBSERVED AT THE FOLLOWING SITES
WATER LEVELS REMAIN NORMAL AT ALL COASTAL SITES. NO WAVE
BEEN DETECTED.

EVALUATION
NO TSUNAMI DANGER EXISTS FOR ALASKA - BRITISH COLUMBIA -
WASHINGTON - OREGON OR CALIFORNIA. HOWEVER SOME AREAS MAY
EXPERIENCE SMALL SEA LEVEL CHANGES. AS LOCAL CONDITIONS
CAN CAUSE A WIDE VARIATION IN TSUNAMI WAVE ACTION THE ALL
CLEAR DETERMINATIONS MUST BE MADE BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES.

[WillyT]

76. Fuck !!! - I Just Called A Friend In Fort Bragg, CA... He Sounded Scared..

Used to live in Mendocino, and a buddy of mine just moved into the harbor area in Fort Bragg. Just called to see if he was OK,
and he told me the police were in the harbor letting everybody know by megaphone. He sounded in shock,
and then another call came on the line, and we said good-bye.

Man this is freakin me out, can't imagine what he's and his family are goin through!!!

Fuck...

Hopefully it ends up being nothin, but lately...

:scared:

Map:



He lives right about here:

[proud patriot]

112. Great abs in them waters off Fort Bragg

Yummy .

[abrupt]

132. going to Fort Bragg

on Friday. we have a cabin up there.

[Roland99]

77. USGS reporting 7.0 off the coast of Crescent City, CA

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/

[tridim]

90. That site is cool

Thank's for posting it. Stay safe Cali.

Edit: Check http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Anim/canv.html

[Biased Liberal Media]

80. I have family on the central coast of California

and they haven't been issued a warning yet. I called them as soon as I saw the news. I live in the center of WA state so we're not affected, but still...

should they be concerned even if there are no tsunami warnings??

[schrodingers_cat]

83. apparently warning just called off in Bay Area

paraphrasing the local news - sounds like a general call off for the entire coast, but I'm only speaking for this locality and I wouldn't listen to me if you're making personal decisions to seek higher ground.

[Pithy Cherub]

84. My first ever Tsunami warning

and then cancellation here in the OC. :crazy:

[dooner]

85. Thanks for Du Early Warning System...

I live on the California coast, and if I hadn't been online.. I wouldn't have had a clue about the Earthquake or tsunami warning for my area. Called friends who live less than 1/4 mile from the beach, who also hadn't heard.

There was no news crawl during the big NBA game or the other local channels... so how were we supposed to hear about the warning?! So much for public information system!!

Thanks for the heads up DU!

[Scout1071]

88. That's what I'm saying. It's a shame that we've known on DU for

an hour now and I've yet to see any coverage with the exception of one scroll across Lou Dobbs Tonight. If people's lives are endangered, it's pathetic and negligent IMO.

[mandyky]

104. Our local 11PM news mentioned it

and said more details on the early morning news show. Went looking on Cable news, nada, just reruns of shows earlier.

[rainbow4321]

118. Remember that F 5 twister that swept across OK a few yrs back?

My sis lives in Tulsa and her local stations bearly even covered the damn thing as it moved thru their state. I watched the cable stations' live coverage of it (I was watching from TX), telling her the F5's location every few minutes (they don't have cable) as it was crossing OK. The storm stopped right outside the west border of Tulsa. Still her local channels played it down with minimal reporting.
Amazing how we can get live broadcast of shit like the MJ and OJ verdict and car chases but heaven forbid they take time out of regular broadcasting for LIFE threatening natural disasters!

[kurtyboy]

105. You're welcome--I found out when my wife's cell phone lit up

She works for FEMA and is the acting Response Officer for Region X this week. She had to spend an hour collecting information, coordinating with other officials and making the calls on whether to activate elevated-coordination contingencies in Alaska, Oregon, and Washington.

I was damned surprised when I went to check the LBN and nobody had a thing on this.

Wife has been in bed for an hour now, after enjoying some ice cream--

I loathe June thru November--she is always taking calls about wildfires, hurricanes, floods during supper, the middle of the night, etc. I spent about six months without her last year (Florida hurricanes), and I'd like a better year this time...

[General Discontent]

86. Santa Cruz checking in....

I'm about 1/4 mile inland. I'm still here, for now.....
I just saw on EyeWitless news that the tsunami warnig has been cancelled. I don't know how accurate that report is.

I was just talking to my neighboor about earthquakes earlier this afternoon. My other neighboor is on vacation in Peru, and we were talking about how she must have felt Chile's quake. Wild stuff!




GD

[Biased Liberal Media]

87. Hey Santa Cruz

I have family in Monterey and they haven't been issued a warning. Should they heed it??

[Blue Belle]

91. I haven't heard the warning siren yet...

I live in Pacific City which is about 100 miles south of Astoria (20 miles north of Lincoln City) if anything were heading my way, I'd hear it by now. I'm out of the Tsunami zone... but I worry about the tourists that aren't aware of the dangers.

[spuddonna]

92. CNN.com should be ashamed...

cbs, msnbc, and abc online news has this plastered all over their 'Latest Breaking' news areas, but I don't see ANYTHING at cnn...

PS - I found out about the quake from the usgs's automated warning system. I went to cnn, saw nothing then said, "I know the DU will have more info!" :)

[WillyT]

93. Malloy Just Said The Warning Has Been Cancelled...

but I'm not seein that yet at USGS.

:shrug:

[Roland99]

95. Yahoo reporting it's cancelled

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050615/ap_on_re_us/california_quake;_ylt=Ai_esDMnvAxh0zNnQ42oA1Gs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--

[WillyT]

98. Crap... I Think He Was Talkin About The Pacific Basin Alerts...

Not the Pacific Coast Alerts...

Look here, two different Tsunami Alert Centers (bottom right).

Link: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2005/usziae/

[i have issues]

101. And checkout all the recent activityon the pacific plate...

Bad Feeling.
http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

[da_chimperor]

99. MSNBC reporting tsunami warning is cancelled:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8222192/

snip "A tsunami warning was briefly in effect from the California-Mexico border north to Vancouver Island, British Columbia, but was called off about an hour after the quake hit."

[NNN0LHI]

124. Wonder if it was canceled due to lack of interest?

;)

[Extend a Hand]

100. the web-bots followed at urban survival have been predicting

major catastrophies from summer earthquakes.
http://urbansurvival.com/week.htm

[schrodingers_cat]

102. I'm no quake expert

but I look at the shake maps whenever there's a shaker, and that is the strangest shake pattern I have ever seen!! (see link below) Maybe they look different when they're oceanic quakes, but generally they start with a micro rumble, then a BIG release of energy, then they peter out. What's up with this one?
BTW, wall to wall coverage on the local news now, it started a good 1/2 hr after it was posted here on DU by kurtyboy. Thanks for the heads up, KB!!!

http://quake.usgs.gov/waveforms/helicorder/KMPB_HHZ_NC_--_00_20050614.html

[evolvenow]

107. Bet its HAARP, FLipping B*astards, Never has there been a Tsunami Warning

for the Entire West Coast.

With everything falling to pieces with the WAR CRIMINAL CLUB, it would be just like their sick, insane, twisted logic to create earthquakes in CA.

Tesla knew techniques for exacerbating faults, and I would not be surprised if this accounts for the odd patterns.

Think good thoughts please.

Normally my birds and animals freak right before, and they are calm, so that is a good sign.

I am seriously concerned that this is a rehearsal or another fear tactic.

Listen to your instincts and stay away from the shore. This week I have been feeling a big earthquake was coming.

?

[earth mom]

123. I'm feeling the same way....

I've been expecting something to occur for awhile now on the West Coast. We're blue staters over here and are no doubt disposable.

Okay, so I've got my tin foil hat on and am wondering: Perhaps this quake wasn't as big as expected and that's why the warning was for the entire West Coast? How many quakes can you have before people put 2 and 2 together? And would they even risk that? And if not what is Plan B? :scared: :tinfoilhat:

[evolvenow]

127. Agree, rehearsal, false alarm, very odd. I would question Everything right

now.

http://www.bariumblues.com/telegeodynamics.htm



The January 1978 edition of Specula magazine ran an article describing an incredibly profound phenomenon that could be produced within the Earth by what is called the 'Tesla Effect.' According to the article, electromagnetic signals of certain frequencies can be transmitted through the Earth to form standing waves in the Earth itself. In certain cases, coherence to this standing wave can be induced wherein a fraction of the vast, surging electromagnetic current of the Earth itself feeds into and augments the induced standing wave. In other words, "much more energy is now present in the standing wave than the ...amount being fed in from the Earth's surface." By interferometer techniques, giant standing waves can be combined to produce a focused beam of very great energy. This can then be used to produce earthquakes induced at distant aiming points.

Tesla expressed grave concerns about the effects of this technology because it is exactly the type of thing that could easily get out of control once it begins vibrating within the Earth - and it could actually cause the Earth to vibrate to pieces. Could the use of this technique have been responsible for the great earthquake in Tangshan, China in 1976?

Another leading Tesla researcher and nuclear engineer, Lt. Col. Thomas Bearden, lecturing at a Symposium of the US Psychotronics Association (USPA) in 1981 stated:

Tesla found that he could set up standing waves. in the earth (the molten core), or, just set it up through the rocks - the telluric activity in the rocks would furnish activity into these waves and one would get more potential energy in those waves than he put in. He called the concept the Tesla Magnifying Transmitter (TMT).

Bearden goes on to explain how TMTs worked:

They will go through anything. What you do is that you set up a standing wave through the earth and the molten core of the earth begins to feed that wave (we are talking Tesla now). When you have that standing wave, you have set up a triode.

What you've done is that the molten core of the earth is feeding the energy and it's like your signal - that you are putting in - is gating the grid of a triode. Then what you do is that you change the frequency. If you change the frequency one way (start to dephase it), you dump the energy up in the atmosphere beyond the point on the other side of the earth that you focused upon. You start ionising the air, you can change the weather flow patterns (jet streams etc) - you can change all that - if you dump it gradually, real gradually - you influence the heck out of the weather. It's a great weather machine. If you dump it sharply, you don't get little ionisation like that. You will get flashes and fireballs (plasma) that will come down on the surfaces of the earth. you can cause enormous weather changes over entire regions by playing that thing back and forth.

[tmorelli415]

103. KRON-TV SFO: Confirmed Cancelation for CA; Aftershocks

KRON confirmed that the California coast is out of danger, tsunami warning canceled. Aftershocks are being reported. 4.0 north of Santa Rosa. Another near Eureka. Both typical.

I'm a little surprised at how long it took to get the original info on the news here in the Bay Area. Not encouraging news about the stae of our warning system. It took more than an hour for most to even hear abou it.

[Cleita]

111. I heard it on the NY news from my satellite feed and I

live in California. The local news was MJ all the time.

[BrightKnight]

106. tsunami hit Crescent City in 1964

"Crescent City was the site of the only known tsunami to kill people in the continental United States. Eleven people died and 29 city blocks were washed away when a tsunami hit Crescent City in 1964. "

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20050614-2112-ca-norcalquake.html

[Blue_In_AK]

115. The Alaska Good Friday Quake, no doubt... n/t

[CoffeeCat]

119. I was born on the day of that Alaskan quake...

My grandfather used to tease me, "You caused quite a stir the day you came into this world..."

Because the Alaskan quake was on my bday, I read a great deal about it and was fascinated by it.

[Blue_In_AK]

121. "Earthquake Park" is about a mile or so from my house...

It's where a BIG chunk of land just slid on down into Cook Inlet on that day in 1964, taking many homes with it. The city set the land apart so no one would ever build there again. When I first came up here in 1972, it was still rough-looking, chunky, but now after all these years it's just a gentle slope down to the beach, punctuated by smooth mounds of various sizes all overgrown with birches and alders. It's kind of eerie to walk in there now, now that it's so peaceful, and to think about the devastation of that day and all the lives that were changed forever.

[kineneb]

116. I remember hearing about it on the news.

I was but 6 years old, but the tsunami was the result of the massive quake in Anchorage, Alaska. We had the Nat. Geog. magazine on the quake for sometime around the house. The damage was incredible.

[Coastie for Truth]

109. Tsunami Warning Lifted - But Your Neighbors Are Ready

And notwithstanding what the freepers and GOP say - your friends and neighbors - will be there - with a place to sleep, and warm food, and a hug.

[fortyfeetunder]

110. Downgraded to a bulletin

But I will be on the lookout to see what eventually happens. We are prepared for a shaker around here....but not a tsunami.

[uppityperson]

113. Thank you kurtyboy and all DUers who participated tonight

I really appreciate having instant access to people working together on a potential problem. Helps keep the information up and scariness down. Thank you all.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

114. Tsunami warning cancelled

[Andromeda]

120. I live in Northern California...

and I didn't feel a thing. It's almost 10:55 pm PDT here in Sonoma County and everything is calm.

[pinniped]

126. Concast busted thru all channels with the warning message.

.

[dooner]

135. not in my area...

central coast of CA

[meganmonkey]

130. I used to live in Manila, right on the ocean by Humboldt Bay

We were generally too wasted to think about the possibility of a tsunami (:smoke:) but we knew it could happen.

Scary stuff - to live on a sandbar, 2 feet above sea level, on a fault!

[Gays_R_Family]

137. we had a Tsunami scare last night ...

I live right across the street from the ocean in San Francisco and went the Tsunami warning hit the TV screen around 9:18 p.m. there was a bit of a panic in the condominium I live in.

We went online to the NOAA.gov website and saw that it would be hitting us in 5 minutes. Neighbors were in the hallway wondering whether to take it seriously or not and one family had already gathered up their kids and were headed out the door.

Then almost as quickly as it was announced, the NOAA.gov site said the warning was cancelled.

We stayed home and prayed for the best. Glad to wake up this morning and see that nothing came of it.

[evolvenow]

139. Welcome Gays_R_Family, glad you are safe and sound!