{"id":11185,"date":"2010-02-27T17:37:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T17:37:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-27T22:26:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T22:26:19","slug":"massive-earthquake-in-chile-poses-tsunami-threat-to-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/27\/massive-earthquake-in-chile-poses-tsunami-threat-to-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Earthquake In Chile Poses Tsunami Threat to California"},"content":{"rendered":"

A major earthquake struck Chile this morning<\/a> with a magnitude of 8.8. It’s not quite as large as the enormous 1960 Chile earthquake<\/a>, the largest ever recorded with a magnitude of 9.5, but it was enough to do catastrophic damage in central Chile, likely including parts of the capital, Santiago.<\/p>\n

What does this mean for California? It means a “minor tsunami”<\/a> is likely to hit the California coast during the middle of the day today. By “minor” that apparently means waves of between 1 and 2 feet, not enough to do major damage but enough to warn people to not go near the water.<\/p>\n

Specific arrival times and amplitude projections can be found here<\/a> – the tsunami will hit La Jolla around noon and over the next 2 hours work its way up the coast – Santa Barbara around 12:30pm, Monterey around 12:45, SF around 1:30, Crescent City (which was devastated by a 1964 tsunami<\/a>) around 1:45.<\/p>\n

I’ll be watching, but from a safe distance. Hopefully it won’t be much more than a high tide around here. Unfortunately for Hawaii, they are expecting a major tsunami threat.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/b> Picture at upper right is from Asilomar State Beach in Pacific Grove, where beach access was closed off. The tsunami appeared to arrive between 12:45 and 1:00 today, looking like a very high tide but nothing particularly damaging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A major earthquake struck Chile this morning<\/a> with a magnitude of 8.8. It’s not quite as large as the enormous 1960 Chile earthquake<\/a>, the largest ever recorded with a magnitude of 9.5, but it was enough to do catastrophic damage in central Chile, likely including parts of the capital, Santiago.<\/p>\n

What does this mean for California? It means a “minor tsunami”<\/a> is likely to hit the California coast during the middle of the day today. By “minor” that apparently means waves of between 1 and 2 feet, not enough to do major damage but enough to warn people to not go near the water.<\/p>\n

Specific arrival times and amplitude projections can be found here<\/a> – the tsunami will hit La Jolla around noon and over the next 2 hours work its way up the coast – Santa Barbara around 12:30pm, Monterey around 12:45, SF around 1:30, Crescent City (which was devastated by a 1964 tsunami<\/a>) around 1:45.<\/p>\n

I’ll be watching, but from a safe distance. Hopefully it won’t be much more than a high tide around here. Unfortunately for Hawaii, they are expecting a major tsunami threat.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/b> Picture at upper right is from Asilomar State Beach in Pacific Grove, where beach access was closed off. The tsunami appeared to arrive between 12:45 and 1:00 today, looking like a very high tide but nothing particularly damaging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2Up","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}