[Coral-List] Youtube presentation RMI coral disease (Dean Jacobson)

Douglas Fenner douglasfenner at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 16 15:49:42 EDT 2011


The NOAA tide gauge at Kwajalein, Marshall Islands shows only about a 2 foot 
maximum tsunami wave height above the tide level at the time.

http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/cgi-bin-mp/data_plot.cgi?mins=&datum=6&unit=1&stn=1820000&bdate=20110311&edate=20110312&data_type=wl&relative=&type=Tide%20Data&shift=g&plot_size=large&relative=&wl_sensor_hist=&plot_backup=


To look at other NOAA tide gauges, choose from the list at 

http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/station_retrieve.shtml?type=Tide+Data

When you get to the page for a location, set the starting date at March 11, and 
click on the right for an expanded view.  You can essentially watch any of the 
tide gauges in near real time, just hit your browser's reload button when you 
want to see what has happened in the last few minutes.  You can watch a tsunami 
as it happens at any of the NOAA tide gauge locations, with more accuracy than 
you can see looking out your window at the actual water level at the same 
location (one gauge is at our office here in Pago Pago harbor, American Samoa, 
so I can do that).  Cool.

Although we in American Samoa did not get big waves, the waves continued for 
days.

There are news reports that the tsunami killed thousands of seabirds on Midway 
in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands, by sweeping over parts of the low lying 
atoll islands.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110316/ap_on_re_us/us_tsunami_midway_seabirds

Cheers,   Doug



 Douglas Fenner, Ph.D.
Coral Reef Monitoring Ecologist
Dept Marine & Wildlife Resources
American Samoa


Mailing address:
PO Box 3730
Pago Pago, AS 96799
USA


work phone 684  633 4456


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From: Eugene Shinn <eshinn at marine.usf.edu>
To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
Sent: Wed, March 16, 2011 6:47:39 AM
Subject: [Coral-List] Youtube presentation RMI coral disease (Dean Jacobson)

Dean, I enjoyed you photos from  the Marshall Islands. Do you or 
anyone know how the Marshall Islands such as Enewetak and Kwajalein 
fared in the tsunami? They are all very low islands and I suspect 
large waves washed over most of the islands. They are, as you know, 
closer to the epicenter than Hawaii. Anyone have any information? Gene
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