[123112] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Tsunami
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JC Dill)
Sat Feb 27 16:56:18 2010
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:55:53 -0800
From: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> The Tsunami is big enough to be dangerous but seems not to be too major :
It depends on where you are located, not just how distant you are from
Chili but also the angle. They are forecasting a cone-shaped zone of
effect heading directly towards Hawaii. See:
http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/chile20100227/
http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/chile20100227/Chile2010.mov
http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/chile20100227/T1960_1-annotated.png
CNN reported a few minutes ago that the tsunami hit New Zealand about 1
hour ago. Hawaii is ~3 hours more distant (as the wave travels) from
the location of the earthquake in Chili than New Zealand, so the
expectation is that the wave will hit Hawaii a little later than first
forecast.
ObNANOG: Does anyone know if transoceanic cable landing facilities are
sited and built to resist damage a tsunami of a particular
height/strength? (Thinking back to the video of the tsunami in the
Indian Ocean on December 26, 2004.)
jc
