Because a Tsunami can travel great distances very rapidly. Out in deep sea they don't look like much just a big swell but as they near the coast they pick up speed and height.
A Tsunami warning was issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre (part of the US National Weather Service) for Hawaii following the Chilean earthquake on the 27th of February, 2010 (note that in Hawaii, the date was the 26th) at 8.49 pm HST. This was later cancelled on the following day at 01:38 pm. Please see the related links and question for more information.
there have been a lot in Hawaii and in the summer well if an earthquake or landslide is in the Southern Hemisphere the winter
The 2011 Tsunami in JapanMost scientists reported that the 33ft (10m) Tsunami wave, triggered by a massive earthquake on March 11 measuring magnitude 9.0 on the Richter scale, made it 6 miles (10 kilometers) inland with washed up debris and water reaching distances of 10 miles or more inland. This city of Sendai was 80 miles (128 km) from epicenter of Earthquake.
A tsunami cannot be precisely predicted even if the right magnitude of an earthquake occurs in the right location. Systems that uses bottom pressure sensors attached to buoys can successfully predict a tsunami. No one yet knows why a tsunami may or may not occur after an earthquake. It is not necessary that a Tsunami follows an earthquake. It only happens when focus of earthquake is in the sea bed. Since earthquakes are caused by seismic waves produced due to collisions of the tectonic plates, these waves high disturbance in the sea water and hence the water takes the form of Tsunamis.
The 1960 Valdivia earthquake or Great Chilean Earthquake of 22 May 1960 is to date the most powerful earthquake ever recorded on Earth, rating 9.5 on the magnitude scale. It occurred in the afternoon (19:11 GMT, 15:11 local time). It was followed by a tsunami which affected southern Chile, Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, eastern New Zealand, southeast Australia, and the Aleutian island in Alaska.The depth of the earthquake was 33 km.The epicenter was Cañete, Chile.There were about 2,231-6,000 casualties.
No. The vast majorit of earthquakes, including those in Hawaii, do no trigger tsunamis.
A Tsunami warning was issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre (part of the US National Weather Service) for Hawaii following the Chilean earthquake on the 27th of February, 2010 (note that in Hawaii, the date was the 26th) at 8.49 pm HST. This was later cancelled on the following day at 01:38 pm. Please see the related links and question for more information.
Anyone can; even people continents away can be affected by really strong earthquakes. Japan had an earthquake and a tsunami that caused a tsunami in Hawaii.
Yes, there was a tsunami that affected Hawaii in 1975. It was triggered by an earthquake off the coast of the Big Island and resulted in some damage to coastal areas in Hawaii.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center canceled an alert for Hawaii on Saturday, after waves caused erratic surges in the sea but did not appear to cause significant property damage. Gerard Fryer, a geophysicist at the center, told The Associated Press that the state had "dodged a bullet" after a major earthquake in Chile a half-day earlier had caused tsunami warnings to be issued for most of the Pacific basin.
Yes, to certain places in America. They have sent out tsunami alerts in places like Guam, California and Hawaii. In Hawaii the tsunami height is about 2.1m (6.9 ft).
Yeah.
Saturday February 27, 2010. An 8.8 earthquake hit Chile and a Tsunami warning was issued for all of Hawaii. A series of smaller waves up to 6 feet travelled to the islands later in the day. With the early warning, everyone was safely evacuated to higher ground and damage was minimal.
Perhaps the most famous, and possibly the last major tsunami in the USA was from the 1964 Alaska earthquake with a resulting tsunami hitting Alaska, and traveling as far a Hawaii and the Oregon/Washington coast.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Alaska_earthquakehttp://ezinearticles.com/?Alaska-Earthquake-and-Tsunami,-1964&id=9558Another Tsunami was the Lituya Bay, Alaska Tsunami in 1958.http://geology.com/records/biggest-tsunami.shtmlSince the Alaska Earthquake in 1964 and the resulting Tsunami, the West Coast of the USA has had a Tsunami early warning system with emergency evacuation plans. There have been a couple of alarms from earthquakes, but no significant waves.Unfortunately, due to human nature, many people flocked to the coast after recent tsunami warnings.
The tsunami first reached kauai at 3:27 Hawaii time on march 11 , 2011
Yes, An earthquake in Japan can result in a tsunami that impacts Hawaii, Guam, Alaska or the US west coast
there have been a lot in Hawaii and in the summer well if an earthquake or landslide is in the Southern Hemisphere the winter