http://www.jma.go.jp/en/tsunami/

this isn't good.

I completely trust Japan to take good care of this. I'm not entirely worried.

Turns out it was acctually up in the Kuril Islands. Warnings in Japan and Hawaii, as well.

Not looking like a big one, but still, 2 meters of water can do a lot of damage.

FIRST TO UPDATE WIKIPEDIA WOOT WOOT

Everyone over there is nice and awake, right? It doesn't sound like this has the potential to be that much of a problem, but I could be eating my words in a few hours.

It's like 2pm in Japan.

CNN and MSN are now saying 8.4 and 3.3 meter tsunami. I'm going to bed. Hopefully, this ends up better than my last thread about natural disasters in N&D.

What about Alaska? Was the quake far enough north to hit that mostly-abandoned spade-shaped peninsula in Russia instead?

there are watches in the aluetians and southern coast, but no warnings yet.

uhh.... noaa now has tsunami warnings up for the entire west coast. That's kinda surprising.

how long after a big earthquake would a tsunami hit shores?

NO - REPEAT NO - WATCH OR WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE
COASTAL AREAS FROM THE CALIFORNIA-MEXICO BORDER TO THE
NORTH TIP OF VANCOUVER I., BRITISH COLUMBIA

SELECTED TSUNAMI ARRIVAL TIMES FOR INFORMATION AND REFERENCE ONLY.
THESE TIMES DO NOT INDICATE A DESTRUCTIVE TSUNAMI IS EXPECTED.
TOFINO-BC 0321 AKST JAN 13 WESTPORT-WA 0452 PST JAN 13
NEAH BAY-WA 0433 PST JAN 13 SAN FRANCISCO-CA 0531 PST JAN 13
CHARLESTON-OR 0441 PST JAN 13 SANTA BARBARA-CA 0540 PST JAN 13
CRESCENT CITY-CA 0445 PST JAN 13 LA JOLLA-CA 0604 PST JAN 13
SEASIDE-OR 0446 PST JAN 13

heh, kinda wierd that the report says NO warning is in effect, but they list times, and color the whole coast orange on the website. Those crazy NOAAers.

The Alaska situation has officially been upgraded to a warning, it seems. There's too much flow to disrupt it past there. There was an 8.3 in nearly the same place a few years ago that hardly didn't do a thing.

Surf's up in San Diego. Get yer boards and quit bitchin' about the cold weather.

reports from japan have it as a tiny wave. Good. I can go to bed now.

my old hometown of Adak, Alaska reported a 39 cm wave

How does this compare vs. normal surf? If this hit further south and in the summer with the same intensity would there be riders? I've always pondered this.

CHARLIE DON'T SURF

i'm new to this west coast stuff. should i worry about this or just go to bed?

run to the hills