Anybody hear of a Tsunami warning for N. Calif, OR, and WA?

[dhinojosa]

There was some sort of earthquake in the ocean off of San Fran? Anybody have info on this?

[Kraklen]

1. 7.4 or so last night off the California coast.

widespread warnings and evacuations up and down the coast, called off shortly thereafter when sensor buoys recorded no substantial tsunami.

All in all it looks like everything worked like it was supposed too.

[yewberry]

2. Last night.

There was a 7.0 last night at 7:50 about 90 miles off the N. CA coast. There was a tsunami warning from CA to BC. The warning was ended at about 9:00.

Pretty crazy there for a bit.

[dhinojosa]

4. Well its nice to see that the MSM was on it...

I had no clue.

[Sanity Claws]

3. Last night

around 8 or so, local television was interrupted in Seattle to report the earthquake off Northern California and that there were concerns about a tsunami from Mexico up to Vancouver Island.
About ten or twenty minutes later, the report was that a UW seismologist thought no tsunami but a NOAA scientist still urged people to leave the beaches.
Scary!

[AlGore-08.com]

5. After the major quake in Chile that day, a tsunami warning that night

Very freaky day, says this SoCaler...

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. Apparently the quake was from a lateral shift, not an upthrust,

so despite the magnitude it was not likely to produce a tsunami. They couldn't know that at the time of the quake, so they put out the warning just in case.

[Fight_n_back]

7. The warning only lasted about twenty minutes

not even enough time for me to get my windsurfing gear together!

[markdd]

8. Details were hard to come by

Saw the creeper on the Weather Channel, but no other details, can't interupt programing you know. Went to Weather Channel on line, nothing but happy stuff about atmospheric conditions. Finally went to US Weather Service -- NOAA and got details about the Tsunami warning and links to USCGS pages that had actual detail information on the earthquake and its epicenter.

Thank God, Bill Frist wants to make Accuweather and the Weather Channel the only sources for this data, NOT!

[fooj]

9. I live on the coast of CA...we had a crawler on every cable channel!

I must admit- scared the crap out of me!

peace.

[Blue Belle]

10. I didn't find out about it until about 5 minutes bfore the...

waves were scheduled to hit. I live on the Oregon Coast and though some of the people in town said the sirens were going I didn't hear them (I live about 2-1/2 miles from town). I think they need to work on their alert system.