Pacific Tsunami Warning Center Bulletin

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Breaking news wire

Posted on 04-12 at 22:28:51 CST

[As released by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center]

TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 001
PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
ISSUED AT 2020Z 12 APR 2014

THIS BULLETIN APPLIES TO AREAS WITHIN AND BORDERING THE PACIFIC
OCEAN AND ADJACENT SEAS...EXCEPT ALASKA...BRITISH COLUMBIA...
WASHINGTON...OREGON AND CALIFORNIA.

... A TSUNAMI WARNING AND WATCH ARE IN EFFECT ...

A TSUNAMI WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR

SOLOMON ISLANDS / VANUATU / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / NAURU /
NEW CALEDONIA / TUVALU / KOSRAE

A TSUNAMI WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR

KIRIBATI / FIJI / MARSHALL ISLANDS / WALLIS AND FUTUNA /
HOWLAND AND BAKER / POHNPEI / TOKELAU / AUSTRALIA / SAMOA /
INDONESIA / KERMADEC ISLANDS / NEW ZEALAND / AMERICAN SAMOA /
TONGA / CHUUK / NIUE / COOK ISLANDS / WAKE ISLAND / GUAM /
NORTHERN MARIANAS / YAP / PALAU / JARVIS ISLAND /
MINAMITORISHIMA / PALMYRA ISLAND / JOHNSTON ISLAND

FOR ALL OTHER AREAS COVERED BY THIS BULLETIN... IT IS FOR
INFORMATION ONLY AT THIS TIME.

THIS BULLETIN IS ISSUED AS ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. ONLY
NATIONAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO MAKE
DECISIONS REGARDING THE OFFICIAL STATE OF ALERT IN THEIR AREA AND
ANY ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN IN RESPONSE.

AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS



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[gerogie2]

1. Who knew that DU was the place for Tsunamui warnings

I guess I learn something new every day!

[niyad]

5. I, for one, appreciate knowing about them, since I rarely watch tv.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. Well those of us who live on the west coast care.

[roguevalley]

16. the poster might have been meaning it ironically. I give the bennie of a doubt.

take care, my dear hearts. Tsunamis suck.

[CatholicEdHead]

20. West Coast, Alaska, and Hawaii care

I am pretty safe from them where I am but I know people in tsunami prone zones.

[left on green only]

2. What Ever Happened To Tidal Waves?

I always liked that word because it actual means something tangible. I remember that when they started using the word tsunami it was during a slow news week when all of the "reporters" who have a lot of forks and knives and need to cut something decided to create public hysteria by inventing a new word that would get people excited enough to listen to their pap; thereby generating public attention for their advertisers (which is the whole purpose behind reporting the "news" anyway).

LOGO

[caraher]

4. "Tidal wave" is a misleading term

It fell out of favor for a good reason - they have nothing to do with tides.

It is disorienting, of course, to see a familiar term replaced almost overnight...

[niyad]

6. here:

. . . .



Etymology
Tsunami warning bilingual sign in Ulee Lheue, Banda Aceh in Acehnese and Indonesian

The term tsunami comes from the Japanese 津波, composed of the two kanji 津 (tsu) meaning "harbour" and 波 (nami), meaning "wave". (For the plural, one can either follow ordinary English practice and add an s, or use an invariable plural as in the Japanese.[7])

Tsunami are sometimes referred to as tidal waves, which are unusually high sea waves that are triggered especially by earthquakes.[8] In recent years, this term has fallen out of favor, especially in the scientific community, because tsunami actually have nothing to do with tides. The once-popular term derives from their most common appearance, which is that of an extraordinarily high tidal bore. Tsunami and tides both produce waves of water that move inland, but in the case of tsunami the inland movement of water is much greater and lasts for a longer period, giving the impression of an incredibly high tide. Although the meanings of "tidal" include "resembling"[9] or "having the form or character of"[10] the tides, and the term tsunami is no more accurate because tsunami are not limited to harbours, use of the term tidal wave is discouraged by geologists and oceanographers.

There are only a few other languages that have an equivalent native word. In Acehnese language, the words are ië beuna[11] or alôn buluëk[12] (depending on the dialect). In Tamil language, it is aazhi peralai. On Simeulue island, off the western coast of Sumatra in Indonesia, in Devayan language the word is smong, while in Sigulai language it is emong.[13] In Singkil (in Aceh province) and surrounding, the people name tsunami with word gloro.

. . . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami

[ThoughtCriminal]

8. Etymology-Man Explains "Tidal Waves"

https://xkcd.com/1010/

[smiley]

18. funny stuff

[SheilaT]

13. I've been aware that tsunami is the correct term since

1978, when I took a geology class.

[left on green only]

21. 1978? That's like yesterday.....

.....when you are talking to someone who was there when Napoleon had his troops shoot the nose off the Sphinx. (I know, I know, they are both lies.)

[SheilaT]

22. Well, maybe the day before yesterday.

In a related (that was yesterday!) note, when I took Home Ec in 7th and 8th grades (during the Kennedy administration) when we did the cooking stuff, whenever we were baking something and had to add baking powder, the teacher was always careful to stress that you add that ingredient last of all and get your stuff into the oven as quickly as possible. I eventually learned that when they learned to cook about thirty years earlier, baking powder was single acting, meaning the dough started rising immediately and you really had a limited time to get it into the oven so it would bake properly. By the time I was baking, it was a double-acting baking powder, that started rising once it got wet, then completed the rising when exposed to the heat of the oven. But they never forgot their earliest training, and passed it on to us. To this day, even though I know perfectly well I don't have to race to get my cookies or quick bread or whatever into the oven, I still feel anxious.

We never really forget our earliest training. Or the first words we learned for something.

[left on green only]

23. We may be closer in time than you think.

While you were in the 7th and 8th grades learning to master the beloved culinary arts (I love eating good food), I suspect I was studying technical drawing at public school in the 9th grade. At least I know that the following year, President Kennedy was assassinated while I was sitting in my 10th grade Health Science class. I couldn't believe it. Our teacher, Mr. Dunn, was talking about the evils of masturbation when the announcement by the school's principal, Mr. Shirk, came over the school's PA address system. I'll tell you one thing: it sure as hell cured me of my evil behaviour for at least the next three months. But here's the kicker: my school was in the heart of Orange County, California, bastion of The John Birch Society. But I'll give those heathens credit for at least one thing: they did hold a moment of silence, while those who chose to, could "communicate" with their vision of god, whomever it might have been, before they went back to telling us how we were all undoubtedly going to go blind.

(why don't they have a smiley face for insanity?)

[TexasProgresive]

17. Calling earthquake caused waves tidal was a misnomer

Tidal waves are also called tidal bores

The word bore derives through Old English from the Old Norse word bára, meaning "wave" or "swell".

The most famous is the Bay of Fundy in Canada and the infamous Morecambe Bay where Chinese cockle gathers drowned in the bore (Feb 5, 2004.

In the past people weren't aware that distant earthquakes were the cause of tsunamis and probably thought they were tidal bores or waves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_bore

tsunami |(t)soōˈnämē|
noun ( pl. same or -mis )
a long high sea wave caused by an earthquake, submarine landslide, or other disturbance.
ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from Japanese, from tsu ‘harbor’ + nami ‘wave.’

[pangaia]

19. Tsunami wa wakarimasu ka?

Do you think tsunami doesn't mean something tangible?

Nobody invented "a new word that would get people excited enough to listen to their pap;"

It is actually a real honest to goodness Japanese word. Just like.. sushi. Speaking of which--ummmmm Sashimi to nigiri to makizushi wa, oishi desu, nee.

Oyasumi nasai.

[Aldo Leopold]

3. All of the tsunami warnings I've ever seen have been at DU

[yuiyoshida]

7. As one who can see the Pacific Ocean from my front door....

I am glad to know when these come out...I want to know a head of time when these freaking waves come my way, thank you very much!!!

[Aldo Leopold]

11. No shit! Wow.

[2banon]

10. Oh for heaven sakes.. Warnings don't apply to California, Oregon, Washington, or Alaska..

wish I'd read the "warning" closer.

THIS BULLETIN APPLIES TO AREAS WITHIN AND BORDERING THE PACIFIC
OCEAN AND ADJACENT SEAS...EXCEPT ALASKA...BRITISH COLUMBIA...
WASHINGTON...OREGON AND CALIFORNIA.

[yuiyoshida]

12. ITS BEEN CANCELLED.

"The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center initially issued a warning for the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea. The warning has since been cancelled. "

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/04/12/83-earthquake-solomon-tsunami/7646243/
SECOND paragraph.

[nikto]

14. link

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usc000phx5#summary