Just heard over the thing that there is a tsunami heading towards the west coast of America…
Anyone know if its true??? 200 miles off the coast?
UPDATE: There was an earthquake, and intially a tsumani warning, but now it has been cancelled:
…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 06/15/2005A 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.
It was true that the local media went nuts about listening for evacuation warnings and so on… completely OTT but then that’s California for you…
No doubt it was Osama - we better launch a war against Mother Nature - part of the Axis of EEEvil
It was also on the local news that some antipods actually went to the beach when they heard the tsunami warning. “Like I always wanted to see a killer wave.” Sheesh.