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Re: [v6z] Re: New tsunami advisory warning - Japan
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Howard)
Sun Mar 27 22:35:18 2011
In-Reply-To: <68456.56069.qm@web59611.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:34:34 -0700
From: Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au>
To: "andrew.wallace" <andrew.wallace@rocketmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 6:28 PM, andrew.wallace <
andrew.wallace@rocketmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:59 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> > *yawn*. A foot and a half isn't going to be all *that* bad
>
> Remember a wall of tsunami water travels in general at approx 970 kph (600
> mph), think about it.
>
That's in deep water, where the height of the wave might be a few inches at
most.
Once it reaches shallow water the speed drops significantly and the height
increases.
Scott
