Waves sweep 4 out to sea in Crescent City as tsunami surges reach west coast

[itsrobert]

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[Hell Hath No Fury]

1. Holy shit!

It was said they were going to get the brint of the hit. :( At lease the damage in Santa Cruz was just property.

[Blue_In_AK]

3. Crescent City took a big hit

in 1964, also, when the Good Friday quake struck Alaska. That seems to be a particularly vulnerable spot.

We got the tsunami warnings here on TV last night around midnight for the Aleutians and Dutch Harbor. I think the waves were about five feet out there.

[liberal N proud]

2. There were ample warnings to evacuate the shore

Were these people just looking for a thrill?

[somone]

4. Many people don't realize the energy being released:

A representation of the maximum wave amplitude calculated by the NOAA Center for Tsunami Research using the MOST (Method of Splitting Tsunami) forecast model.

[Gregorian]

5. No wonder the roads are closed here.

I just tried to go to the store, and ran into a barricade. My realtor couldn't get home to eat lunch.

A 9.0 on the Richter scale is huge.

Oh yeah, and people were getting personal phone calls. Mutliple calls from some agency to evacuate. Pretty amazing.