I think this is a fake, I don't think we should give it air time - whatever the picture looks like like, take two minutes to realise what it "feels" like (not looks like) to loose your whole family.
OMG !!!
by JH 29 Replies latest jw friends
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frenchbabyface
oy oy oy ... If not in a building (which wouldn't really be a garanty) and see it coming I wonder if I would even bother to run away ? (but just thinking ... ok ... good bye) talking about a SLAP !
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bikerchic
Why so upset Kate?
I just don't see the humor in it when so many have recently died from the tsunami. You know some things just aren't funny and I thought it in poor taste. Just me, never mind me........
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Leolaia
Here is a real tsunami...the wave as it approached Penang. This is the front wave that extended for miles and miles along the coast. Most of the water that will flood the shore is going to go behind this wave. This is because the tsunami has a very long trough and as this front part of the wave slows down the back end is still moving at full speed.
Here it is approaching the shore. The sea has retreated a little as can be seen in the shoreline, but the wave itself is of rather short height:
Here it crashes on the shore and it looks pretty minor at first glance.
But behind it are more tsunami waves coming. As they approach the shore and slow down they coalece:
Here the collected wave rushes in. Notice the mostly exposed seabed. It isn't just one wave but the whole whitewater area behind is part of the same tidal surge that is going to flood the shore and keep on going.
And it reaches the homes....
In the second to the last photo, I can count at least 21 tsunami ripples that move together towards the shore....
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frenchbabyface
My mother got one ... and she was living on the beach at that time (LORRAIN - MARTINIQUE) she didn't realised waked up in the morning everything wet : boats / fridge / furnitures / fishes ... whatever in the streets ... the good thing on this place is that most of the houses are cimented ... I don't have much details on the matter it's Tony who talled me this story ... WE didn't even heard about it here (at least I didn't know that it happen to my mother)
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Leolaia
There is someone I know well who had just moved to Sri Lanka and he pretty much lost everything (including most of his life's work). But luckily he wasn't at his house at the time -- so I'm very thankful for that.
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BrendaCloutier
Leolaia, those were awesome pictures. Thank you so very much for posting them. I "dragged" Kevan down to see them, and he appreciated them, too. They profoundly show the "ripple in the pond" effect.
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Simon
There is an effect that can truly cause massive waves that dwarf tsunami's. The bbc did a programme about them some time ago where one was half a kilometre high - there was a ring of destruction (smashed trees etc.) going half way up a maintain !
What will happen when the volcano on La Palma collapses? Scientists predict that it will generate a wave that will be almost inconceivably destructive, far bigger than anything ever witnessed in modern times. It will surge across the entire Atlantic in a matter of hours, engulfing the whole US east coast, sweeping away everything in its path up to 20km inland. Boston would be hit first, followed by New York, then all the way down the coast to Miami and the Caribbean.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2000/mega_tsunami.shtml
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Leolaia
Brenda....I grew up in Hawaii and heard about tsunamis all my life, but actually seeing it on the videos and in pictures is quite a different thing. I realized that we tend to have Hollywood conceptualizations about tsunamis that can actually be pretty misleading; I never knew it could just be a five-foot wave that looks inocuous at first and then within seconds inundates everything around and just pours in from the sea. I also now understand why people become intrigued when the sea retreats and walk out on the exposed seabed. The videos I have seen of the water retreating are just plain bizarre! Imagine a wave that breaks on the shore but instead of going forward, it just stays in place and behind it water rushes in the opposite direction and even creates waves that move backwards out to sea. And the waves you can see in the distance with whitecaps stay seemingly stationary and in front of them there are vortexes with water swirling around in circles. I've seen at least two videos with these vortexes. It's all a strange sight and this is the last warning...
Simon...La Palma may possibly be the worst, provided the eruption is an explosive event and the landslide occurs rapidly and not slowly. There is also the potential for a massive earthquake like the one in Indonesia in either the Caribbean (in the volcanic zone) and along the Pacific Plate fault offshore Oregon-Washington State. If a 9.0 earthquake occurred there, the effect on coastal Oregon and Washington could be somewhat similar to that of Banda Aceh. The worst event of all would be when a flank of the Big Island in Hawaii falls into the ocean (as did the Kona side of the Big Island and the older islands of Maui, Oahu in their past).
http://www.mbari.org/volcanism/Hawaii/HR-Landslides.htm
"Recently, much attention has been paid to the instability of the Big Island and its catastrophic slides into the sea. Giant tsunami, hundreds of meters high, are visualized as lethal byproducts of these giant submarine landslides. Interpretations of seafloor topography suggest that submarine landslides have occurred repeatedly in the past around all of Hawaii's major islands. One scientifically controversial interpretation is that a giant tsunami 330 m (1,000 ft) high, triggered by a submarine landslide off the Kona coast, swept across Lana`i about 100,000 years ago. There has been much media attention regarding these landslides and tsunamis. There was a report last March of Kilauea's south flank moving 7.1 cm/sec (2.8 inches/second) generated nationwide interest but exaggerated the rate by 22.4 million times; the actual maximum rate is about 10 cm/year (4 inches/year)."
http://www.albion.edu/geology/Geo210_Hawaii/Coastal/landslides.htm
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FMZ
Bikerchic... please point out the part of JH's post where he brings humor to it. It seemed to me that JH didn't even know it was not a real photograph.
Just wondering... sounds to me like you got pissed for no reason.
FMZ