Reply #5: Yes, but when one is detected [View All]

[burrowowl]

as a precaution, especially a quake of this magnitude, a warning should be issued.
I am surprised that when people saw the ocean retreating, that they didn't start hightailing it to higher ground. I have friends who were in Hawaii during the 60's tidal wave, they were on high ground and saw the ocean withdrawing .... an amazing sight. They also saw it come in, an even more amazing sight.
Gee, our nuke watchers take vacations. One student at NMSU is working through the holidays analyzing data. Apparently, the quake blew their instruments off-scale since the instruments were only set for the range of quakes in NM.