Hawaiian Quake

**Core Shot** · 10-15-2006, 12:20 PM

Magnitude 6.3 FKNA

**Core Shot** · 10-15-2006, 12:22 PM

No power in Oahu.
Friends called from Maui to say no power there

main quake 6.5
one aftershock was 5.8

lots of damage in Kona

**bryanthebold** · 10-15-2006, 12:24 PM

I hope the goverment can rebound this...

Positive vibes to all those people out in the pacific

**AstroPax** · 10-15-2006, 12:33 PM

Originally Posted by Core Shot

main quake 6.5
one aftershock was 5.8

The good news is that it DID NOT generate a Tsunami Warning:

http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/message.txt

-Astro

**Kya** · 10-15-2006, 12:55 PM

Yeah, just talked to my sister-in-law, and everything seems to be okay, other then power outages. No evidence of tsunami.

**Lane Meyer** · 10-15-2006, 12:56 PM

Interestinig too that I just left there last night and flew red-eye to Portland after completing a survey of tsunami potential from earthquakes.

To clear up some details - it was a magnitude 4.6, NOT a 6.4 (6.4 is 100 times stronger than a 4.6), there were power outages on O`ahu and Lana`i where my parents live, and the "damage" is going to be fallen pictures and stuff off shelves. Nothing more severe than that.

No damaging tsunami wave expected.

**Atrain505** · 10-15-2006, 12:59 PM

Damn...glad I didn't have to deal with any of that this summer. 4.6 is way better sounding than 6.4.

**Game Over** · 10-15-2006, 12:59 PM

Originally Posted by Lane Meyer

Interestinig too that I just left there last night and flew red-eye to Portland after completing a survey of tsunami potential from earthquakes.

To clear up some details - it was a magnitude 4.6, NOT a 6.4 (6.4 is 100 times stronger than a 4.6), there were power outages on O`ahu and Lana`i where my parents live, and the "damage" is going to be fallen pictures and stuff off shelves. Nothing more severe than that.

No damaging tsunami wave expected.

CRAZY!

dude a 4.6? every news channel is saying a 6.3 then a 5.8, even a guy they (MSNBC) interviewed from the USGS.

edit--now they (MSNBC) are saying a 6.5....dude they dont know what the fuck.

**Lane Meyer** · 10-15-2006, 01:02 PM

Wow. They sure are. The USGS site is now saying 6.3 and centered offshore....interesting. I keep trying to call people on the Big Island and getting circuits are busy recordings..

**Sinecure** · 10-15-2006, 01:03 PM

Does that mean we should expect a big wave coming to NorCal sometime soon?

Glad to hear there's no serious damage.

**Atrain505** · 10-15-2006, 01:06 PM

Ya all the news says 6.3 ish. Nuts. Hope everyone in good ole Kona is ok.

**AstroPax** · 10-15-2006, 01:14 PM

Originally Posted by Lane Meyer

To clear up some details - it was a magnitude 4.6, NOT a 6.4 (6.4 is 100 times stronger than a 4.6), there were power outages on O`ahu and Lana`i where my parents live, and the "damage" is going to be fallen pictures and stuff off shelves. Nothing more severe than that.

OK, now I have to clean-up your bullshit.

There was something like 35+ quakes in the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands today, the strongest measured 6.3...

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/...7.-155_eqs.php

-Astro

**AstroPax** · 10-15-2006, 01:28 PM

Originally Posted by Sinecure

Does that mean we should expect a big wave coming to NorCal sometime soon?

yeah, sex wax that board and head for the coast right now!

-Astro

**edg** · 10-15-2006, 01:35 PM

GEEK FIGHT! Watch out for flying pocket protectors!

edg

**Lane Meyer** · 10-15-2006, 01:40 PM

Clean up my bullshit? You mean where I logged onto the NEIC server here from the Cascades Volcano Observatory about 20 minutues after the first shock and read the un-reviewed autogen solution from HVO's seismic network that was later (10 minutes) reviewed by a seismologist (which I am not) and corrected?

There have been aftershocks every few minutes since the mainshock, some as far away as Lana`i, and the parameters of each and every one are uploaded instantly after they are detected to the web before they are reviewed and corrected. What the media says is almost always from the initial web reports, and thankfuly they have been getting better about saying "preliminary magnitude...."

Thanks for cleaning up my "bullshit." Now you can go back to getting your scientific information from the news media and being armchair experts.

**AstroPax** · 10-15-2006, 01:49 PM

Originally Posted by Lane Meyer

Clean up my bullshit? You mean where I logged onto the NEIC server here from the Cascades Volcano Observatory about 20 minutues after the first shock and read the un-reviewed autogen solution from HVO's seismic network that was later (10 minutes) reviewed by a seismologist (which I am not) and corrected?

There have been aftershocks every few minutes since the mainshock, some as far away as Lana`i, and the parameters of each and every one are uploaded instantly after they are detected to the web before they are reviewed and corrected. What the media says is almost always from the initial web reports, and thankfuly they have been getting better about saying "preliminary magnitude...."

Thanks for cleaning up my "bullshit." Now you can go back to getting your scientific information from the news media and being armchair experts.

ha! And this from the dude that stated...

Originally Posted by Lane Meyer

To clear up some details - it was a magnitude 4.6

...based upon preliminary data.

-Astro

**ak_powder_monkey** · 10-15-2006, 02:56 PM

oh 4.6 is nothing I was all excited

**edg** · 10-15-2006, 02:57 PM

Originally Posted by ak_powder_monkey

oh 4.6 is nothing I was all excited

Thanks for the update!

edg

**bakers_dozen** · 10-15-2006, 03:04 PM

Originally Posted by Lane Meyer

Interestinig too that I just left there last night and flew red-eye to Portland after completing a survey of tsunami potential from earthquakes.

To clear up some details - it was a magnitude 4.6, NOT a 6.4 (6.4 is 100 times stronger than a 4.6), there were power outages on O`ahu and Lana`i where my parents live, and the "damage" is going to be fallen pictures and stuff off shelves. Nothing more severe than that.

No damaging tsunami wave expected.

b.s. I checked the Seismograph downstairs (at work today) and it's about a 6.5 ish...

main aftershock looks to be in the 5.6 range

**slim** · 10-15-2006, 03:07 PM

You people are fucking morons. Read then post.

**splat** · 10-15-2006, 03:26 PM

Yes. Shake, then bake.

**ak_powder_monkey** · 10-15-2006, 04:05 PM

yea I'm hearing 6.6 too on the news, no way a 4.6 could cut that much power, or hawwiian builders just suck at life, given the chances of earthquakes there. I'm guessing it was 6.5ish not new madrid, but still enough to shake a few things. The last 7 up here was pretty scary, even though I was a few hundred miles away from it the length got to me and I exited the building.

**Lane Meyer** · 10-15-2006, 04:48 PM

I tell you what, I think we should have a science-off at the flagpole at 4 pm. You bring your camera, and I'lll bring my MS in great earthquakes, and my PhD in natural hazard and disaster management.

And then afterwards, when the smoke clears and the true juggernaut has been anointed, we'll all be revealed to be a bunch of retards arguing about the relative virtue of outdated secondhand scientific information we post on a skiing forum on the internet.