Wow...

[fenchurch]

Tsunami Alert from the California-Mexico border all the way up to Vancouver, BC.

Guess they're really covering their bases. Though a 7.0 magnitude quake off the coast of California could certainly do some damage, if it's the right (or rather, wrong) sort of quake.

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[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

That's kind of scary and cool both at once.

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

That's what I was thinking! We've got that lovely Olympic Peninsula between us and the actual ocean, so I doubt we'd ever have anything worry about, on a personal level, except for all the friends and family we have who live really close to the ocean, all up and down the coast.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL IN THE SAN FRANCISCO AREA IS APPROXIMATELY 923 PM PDT.

And now it's 920 PM PDT. And tsunami.gov, the site linked from the main NWS page (http://weather.gov), is down. Is everything still OK? I guess, or CNN's front page would be hopping, but...

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Yep... from what I gather, they weren't really expecting a tsunami, but the possibility of one existed. They sent out the alert to get people on the coastline prepared in case they needed to be evacuated.

[rahirah]

I just heard it was cancelled. Did it go back up again?

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Nope, it got cancelled not long after I posted about it here... according to the news sites, at that point they didn't think there would be one, but were just being cautious. It was just kinda interesting that the alert was for, essentially, the entire west coast of the US.