[139153] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New tsunami advisory warning - Japan
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (TR Shaw)
Mon Mar 28 13:32:00 2011
From: TR Shaw <tshaw@oitc.com>
In-Reply-To: <BE7D3189-5B5C-4EAD-AF83-552FC5197212@americafree.tv>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:30:55 -0400
To: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>,
NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 28, 2011, at 1:03 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
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> On Mar 28, 2011, at 11:28 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
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>> On Mar 28, 2011, at 10:57 AM, Gavin Pearce wrote:
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>>>> You guys forget a lot of folks on the list are working on cabling =
ships and off shore platforms, its not all about what happens on shore =
in this industry.
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>>> Valid point ... however in deep ocean, these things are pretty =
imperceptible. The effect on ships on the surface are nominal, and off =
shore platforms are (generally) built with these things in mind: =
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27324535/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/=
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>> Here is a video of the recent Japanese tsunami from a JCG ship in the =
the open ocean. The waves (@ ~4:20 and 6:40 into the video) caused them =
no trouble, but they were certainly not imperceptible.=20
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> With the video :
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D4XSBrrueVoQ&feature=3Dplayer_embedded#at=3D=
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Didn't show much and they were near the epicenter.=20
My friend was on her 44' sailboat about halfway between Galapagos and =
Easter Island went Chile's earthquake happened which caused a 10' =
tsunami in the Galapagos. They never noticed a thing.
Tom
Tom
