Tsunami warning issued for Japan's Hokkaido island

[helderheid]

Reuters
Friday, January 12, 2007; 11:52 PM

TOKYO (Reuters) - A tsunami warning was issued on Saturday for the eastern part of Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido and a lesser warning for a wide swathe of northeastern and eastern Honshu, Japan's main island, NHK public television said.

The earliest possible arrival of the tsunami was estimated at 2 p.m. (0500 GMT) on the eastern coast of Hokkaido with an estimated maximum height of one meter.

The warning came after a moderate earthquake on the Japanese scale of 3 rocked parts of eastern Hokkaido and northeastern Honshu. There were no immediate reports of injuries from the earthquake.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/12/AR2007011202503.html

[originalpckelly]

1. OH NO!

Let's hope nothing bad happens. It's 17 minutes past the time when it could have arrived, so hopefully it won't come. (It's currently 0517 GMT)

http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/

[Speck Tater]

3. Maximum height, ONE METER!!!

Oh no! Get all the wiener dogs off the beach an up on the picnic tables!!
That's a wave nearly waist high! Oh the humanity!

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Remember first waves are not indicative of the full

POTENTIAL damage

[ellisonz]

2. They're going to get hit.

Oh, mother nature:-(

[uppityperson]

4. welcome to the tsunami watch party.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2007xmae.php#details

GD
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=3111349&mesg_id=3111349
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=3111297&mesg_id=3111297
LBN
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2687046&mesg_id=2687046

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. These are always fun

in a macabre way

[uppityperson]

6. better 4 inches than like last yrs.

Went to bed at 100 dead, woke to 10,000, everytime I hit refresh it kept going up and up and up. Actually this is one of the neat things about a worldwide forum, you know?

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Yep you get to see real historic events

in real time

Ranging from wars to natural disasters... this alone is changing world culture

[uppityperson]

9. Updated, with more seen.#5 bulletin

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2007xmae.php#details
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/message.txt
A TSUNAMI HAS BEEN OBSERVED AT THE FOLLOWING SITES
HANASAKI JAPAN 0.1M/0.3FT
KUSHIRO JAPAN 0.05 M/0.15FT
OFUNATO JAPAN 0.06M/0.2 FT
KAMAISHI JAPAN 0.07CM/0.2FT
MIYAKO JAPAN 0.08CM/ 0.26FT
SHEMYA ALASKA .06CM/0.2 FT
WAVE OBSERVATIONS ARE THE AMPLITUDE ABOVE SEA LEVEL.
(rest looks the sameish)

[uppityperson]

10. Small tsunami hits Japan (Reuters)

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=UKNews1&storyID=2007-01-13T070048Z_01_SP199617_RTRUKOC_0_UK-JAPAN-TSUNAMI.xml&WTmodLoc=HP-C1-TopStories-4
A small tsunami wave hit Japan's northernmost island on Saturday after a powerful north Pacific earthquake prompted tsunami warnings for northern Japan, Russia and a wide swathe of Japan's Pacific coast.

A tsunami watch was also issued for a wide area of the Pacific, including Guam, Taiwan, the Philippines and Hawaii by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii, but there were no reports of injury or damage.

A 10-cm (4-inch) wave was reported at Nemuro, on Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, a little after 3 p.m. local (6 a.m.), NHK public television said. Officials said several harbour waters had drawn back slightly in what could be a precursor to a wave.

There were no reports of injury or damage, or more significant waves, as of 3:45 p.m., but officials warned that larger waves could still arrive and evacuation advisories were issued for thousands of households....(more)

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Yep SOP

and I hope that is the bigest wave... but we still have two hours to go, again standard

[uppityperson]

12. Carryon nadin, I'm off to bed

glad this is all but still very interesting and nice break from being irate at administration.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. I will try

good night

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. Tiny Tsunami hits the Japanese Island

http://www.disasternews.net/news/news.php?articleid=3378