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Old 11-23-2006, 07:39 PM
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holy fuckery..look at this !!!!

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/st...ectid=10412160




Tsunami hits NZ - no one notices

Friday November 24, 2006

New Zealand has been hit by a tsunami travelling at the speed of a jetplane - but few people noticed despite the wave bouncing around the coast for three days.

The tsunami, triggered by a big earthquake in the Kuril Islands in Russia's Far East, hit on Thursday last week and was still affecting parts of New Zealand on Saturday.

The magnitude 8.3 earthquake, at 11.14pm on November 15 (NZST) was on a subduction zone where one tectonic plate overrides another between Japan and Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

The initial wave took just over 14 hours to travel the 9600km to the Bay of Plenty and Chatham Islands - at an average 685km/h - but a bit longer to reach the South Island, said Rob Bell, principal scientist at the National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa).

Waves more than half a metre high were recorded by at least seven sea-level gauges on the east coast of the South Island and the Chatham Islands.

Dr Bell said the tsunami then bounced off undersea ridges and moved to and fro along indented sections of coastline.

"This explains why the highest waves ... occurred just over 40 hours after the first wave arrived in New Zealand waters," he said.
The tsunami waves were recorded by several sea-level gauges including those at Timaru, Lyttelton, Sumner Head (Christchurch), Kaikoura, and on the Chatham Islands. The gauges are operated by Niwa, Port of Timaru and the Port of Lyttelton.

The largest wave heights were 56cm at the Chatham Islands on November 16 and 58cm at Timaru on November 18.

Dr Bell said New Zealand was never in any danger. "The subduction zone in the Kuril Islands is oriented to beam more directly at Hawaii, US Pacific coast and Central America."

The tsunami impact was greatest at Crescent City in northern California, where a peak wave height of 1.76m caused strong surging currents, resulting in more than US$1 million ($1.5 million) in damage to docks, slipways, floats and electrical equipment.



THNX FOR THE WARNING GUYS!!! :rolleyes:
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Old 11-23-2006, 11:38 PM
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The really weird thing about tsunamis is that the animals are able to detect their impending arrival before we humans and all of our scientific gadgets are. That big one that hit up Indonesia and Sri Lanka in '04 killed thousands of humans but the only animals it killed were the ones trapped inside homes. All the wild animals ran inland to safety a few minutes before the waves started hitting.
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Old 11-24-2006, 07:13 AM
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WHAT!!??
don't any of you bastards care that i couldve been shark food by now ???
or swept out to the sea with no computer ??


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Poor sharks. They could've gotten indigestion.:D
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Old 11-24-2006, 07:30 AM
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Poor sharks. They could've gotten indigestion.:D

hahahahahahaha!!
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hahahahahahaha!!
bite me bitch :D
Why? Are you trying to give me indigestion too?
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Old 11-24-2006, 07:41 AM
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Why? Are you trying to give me indigestion too?
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the very same tsunami hit northern japan, and crested at a massive 16 inches!


Ankles were wettened and ants were swept to other hills and confused.


when i first heard about it, i thought they screwed up, and it was surely a 16 FOOT tsunami, but nope.... 16 inches...


Is that REALLY a tsunami?


Do you live near the coast, stub? or do you live in themountains and are judst trying to make us feel guilty? :p
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Your internet seems to be working so you're ok, and really, isn't it all about you? ;)
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the very same tsunami hit northern japan, and crested at a massive 16 inches!


Ankles were wettened and ants were swept to other hills and confused.


when i first heard about it, i thought they screwed up, and it was surely a 16 FOOT tsunami, but nope.... 16 inches...


Is that REALLY a tsunami?


Do you live near the coast, stub? or do you live in themountains and are judst trying to make us feel guilty? :p
I live in a rural area..surrounded by trees and mountains.
So everybody else is gonna get thier asses tsunamied before me.
But still ..scary thought ..
What do you mean 16 inches aint really that bad..
anything that flaps over the edge of a bath is flood material to me ...
Em ok my friends
THANKS FOR ASKING!!!! :o
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