[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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