Tsunami advisory in CA

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San Diego resident here:

Thankfully nothing catastrophic occurred in my city overnight but at least it is better to be safe than sorry. 😢

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Anonymous wrote:I am located in SoCal (San Diego) & I have gotten tsunami warnings on my phone but so far in my area at least (!) everything is still pretty calm + on the news front I haven’t seen or heard anything so that is great news for us. 😃

Is there an ETA? I don’t presume to understand how tsunami’s work, but I’m curious how it works.

Californian here. I have gotten alerts too. You can see the estimated times in this article. However, I’ve seen a lot of warnings in my life and most are canceled or not a big deal.

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/california-under-tsunami-watch-after-8-7m-quake-in-eastern-russia/amp/

We will see what happens when the surge hits Hawaii.

Yes as Californians we do get our fair share of tsunami warnings & usually nothing serious occurs.

I personally wouldn’t worry too much about it > this likely will pass.

This one should be taken seriously. It stemmed from a 8.8 earthquake. I can’t believe you would advise not to take a warning seriously after the flash flood warnings and resulting deaths in TX. That attitude is reckless.

I’m not PP but you need to not scaremonger. Santa Barbara is only under an advisory, not a warning, and these are very different.

https://www.countyofsb.org/4725/Tsunami-Advisory-Issued-for-Santa-Barbar

Obviously OPs kid should heed any advice given by local officials, and I do think this has the potential for serious damage in some areas, but right now, Santa Barbara is not likely to be one of those places.

It’s irresponsible to scaremonger as well as to ignore warnings.

Telling OP it’s likely no big deal is insane. Her kid likely knows nothing about tsunamis. She needs to tell her kid to follow what local authorities are saying, That I agree with. Taking this specific scenario seriously is not “scare mongering”. It’s being prudent.

It is absolutely scaremongering to reference the Texas flash floods when discussing a Santa Barbara tsunami advisory. You are very, very out of line here. The specific geographies really matter here. Hawaii is at a likely serious risk, some of Northern California/Oregon possibly as well. Santa Barbara, thus far, is just under advisory. This is very different than a warning. You need to back down.

- Coastal Californian

The estimated time of arrival is after midnight when many will be asleep. The advisory should not be ignored by those in coastal areas because some rando PP said “ I’ve seen a lot of warnings in my life and most are canceled or not a big deal.” This could become a warning after locals go to sleep. Important factors for this particular scenarios are that 1- this is the most powerful earthquake in decades and 2- it cause a shift of the ocean floor- which causes tsunamis.

If the advisory switches to warning level IN SANTA BARBARA, the very, very loud tsunami sirens and emergency phone alerts will be far more effective than your useless scaremongering on DCUM.

Have you ever actually lived through a coastal California tsunami warning? Heard a tsunami siren in real life? It seems obvious you have not. You are very out of line here. It is utterly bizarre that you think your pronouncements on DCUM are more important than what local authorities are saying.

Literally everyone is saying follow the local authorities NOT what people on DCUM are saying.

Then the fear-mongering poster self-importantly referencing the Texas floods while not understanding the first thing about how California tsunami warnings work should probably stop trying to uselessly scare people like OP, who specifically asked about Santa Barbara. That poster is gross, a tragedy vampire.

Shut up. Let the rest of us discuss the warnings and what is happening. You made your point 3 posts ago.

What a jerk you are, ghoul.

OP, as predicted by the actual Californians with tsunami experience, I’m sure your kid is fine and it was actually no big deal.

This is the attitude that makes people start to ignore advisories/watches/warnings. After the tragedy that happened in Texas, people in this area STILL ignored the flash flood warnings last week. People had to be rescued in Tysons, Arlington and various towns in Maryland. Just because it has not happened yet when you got a warning l does not mean that you shouldn’t take precautions just in case. Hawaii handled this perfectly – took it seriously got people out of there quickly and told them what would happen and how long it would take to be rescued if they did not hede the evacuation warnings. I am a former emergency manager and attitudes like yours really pissed me off. People don’t take it seriously and then scream when a tragedy happens. I don’t care that your past experience has “been fine “or “no big deal“. A warning means conditions are such that they could be ripe for a tragedy. A watch advisory means you need to keep alert in case it gets increased to warning. That’s not fear mongering.

It’s sort of like when there’s a hurricane warning for the gulf coast of Florida and it’s projected to go inland and north toward Carolinas before going out to sea. The map shows rain showers in the DC area, but you’re not at risk for a hurricane. It’s like that. The meteorologists are conservative because they don’t knew what they’re dealing with. Always better to be safe, but people in California knew. If you don’t get that, it’s fine.

Yes, exactly.

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Anonymous wrote:I am located in SoCal (San Diego) & I have gotten tsunami warnings on my phone but so far in my area at least (!) everything is still pretty calm + on the news front I haven’t seen or heard anything so that is great news for us. 😃

Is there an ETA? I don’t presume to understand how tsunami’s work, but I’m curious how it works.

Californian here. I have gotten alerts too. You can see the estimated times in this article. However, I’ve seen a lot of warnings in my life and most are canceled or not a big deal.

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/california-under-tsunami-watch-after-8-7m-quake-in-eastern-russia/amp/

We will see what happens when the surge hits Hawaii.

Yes as Californians we do get our fair share of tsunami warnings & usually nothing serious occurs.

I personally wouldn’t worry too much about it > this likely will pass.

This one should be taken seriously. It stemmed from a 8.8 earthquake. I can’t believe you would advise not to take a warning seriously after the flash flood warnings and resulting deaths in TX. That attitude is reckless.

I’m not PP but you need to not scaremonger. Santa Barbara is only under an advisory, not a warning, and these are very different.

https://www.countyofsb.org/4725/Tsunami-Advisory-Issued-for-Santa-Barbar

Obviously OPs kid should heed any advice given by local officials, and I do think this has the potential for serious damage in some areas, but right now, Santa Barbara is not likely to be one of those places.

It’s irresponsible to scaremonger as well as to ignore warnings.

Telling OP it’s likely no big deal is insane. Her kid likely knows nothing about tsunamis. She needs to tell her kid to follow what local authorities are saying, That I agree with. Taking this specific scenario seriously is not “scare mongering”. It’s being prudent.

It is absolutely scaremongering to reference the Texas flash floods when discussing a Santa Barbara tsunami advisory. You are very, very out of line here. The specific geographies really matter here. Hawaii is at a likely serious risk, some of Northern California/Oregon possibly as well. Santa Barbara, thus far, is just under advisory. This is very different than a warning. You need to back down.

- Coastal Californian

The estimated time of arrival is after midnight when many will be asleep. The advisory should not be ignored by those in coastal areas because some rando PP said “ I’ve seen a lot of warnings in my life and most are canceled or not a big deal.” This could become a warning after locals go to sleep. Important factors for this particular scenarios are that 1- this is the most powerful earthquake in decades and 2- it cause a shift of the ocean floor- which causes tsunamis.

If the advisory switches to warning level IN SANTA BARBARA, the very, very loud tsunami sirens and emergency phone alerts will be far more effective than your useless scaremongering on DCUM.

Have you ever actually lived through a coastal California tsunami warning? Heard a tsunami siren in real life? It seems obvious you have not. You are very out of line here. It is utterly bizarre that you think your pronouncements on DCUM are more important than what local authorities are saying.

Literally everyone is saying follow the local authorities NOT what people on DCUM are saying.

Then the fear-mongering poster self-importantly referencing the Texas floods while not understanding the first thing about how California tsunami warnings work should probably stop trying to uselessly scare people like OP, who specifically asked about Santa Barbara. That poster is gross, a tragedy vampire.

Shut up. Let the rest of us discuss the warnings and what is happening. You made your point 3 posts ago.

What a jerk you are, ghoul.

OP, as predicted by the actual Californians with tsunami experience, I’m sure your kid is fine and it was actually no big deal.

This is the attitude that makes people start to ignore advisories/watches/warnings. After the tragedy that happened in Texas, people in this area STILL ignored the flash flood warnings last week. People had to be rescued in Tysons, Arlington and various towns in Maryland. Just because it has not happened yet when you got a warning l does not mean that you shouldn’t take precautions just in case. Hawaii handled this perfectly – took it seriously got people out of there quickly and told them what would happen and how long it would take to be rescued if they did not hede the evacuation warnings. I am a former emergency manager and attitudes like yours really pissed me off. People don’t take it seriously and then scream when a tragedy happens. I don’t care that your past experience has “been fine “or “no big deal“. A warning means conditions are such that they could be ripe for a tragedy. A watch advisory means you need to keep alert in case it gets increased to warning. That’s not fear mongering.

It’s sort of like when there’s a hurricane warning for the gulf coast of Florida and it’s projected to go inland and north toward Carolinas before going out to sea. The map shows rain showers in the DC area, but you’re not at risk for a hurricane. It’s like that. The meteorologists are conservative because they don’t knew what they’re dealing with. Always better to be safe, but people in California knew. If you don’t get that, it’s fine.

Yes trust me as a Californian - we know the proper way to react to these warnings.

Though there are the crazy ones who hear about a possible tsunami on the news then won’t walk outside unless they have a plastic inner tube around their waists. 😜

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Anonymous wrote:I am located in SoCal (San Diego) & I have gotten tsunami warnings on my phone but so far in my area at least (!) everything is still pretty calm + on the news front I haven’t seen or heard anything so that is great news for us. 😃

Is there an ETA? I don’t presume to understand how tsunami’s work, but I’m curious how it works.

Californian here. I have gotten alerts too. You can see the estimated times in this article. However, I’ve seen a lot of warnings in my life and most are canceled or not a big deal.

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/california-under-tsunami-watch-after-8-7m-quake-in-eastern-russia/amp/

We will see what happens when the surge hits Hawaii.

Yes as Californians we do get our fair share of tsunami warnings & usually nothing serious occurs.

I personally wouldn’t worry too much about it > this likely will pass.

This one should be taken seriously. It stemmed from a 8.8 earthquake. I can’t believe you would advise not to take a warning seriously after the flash flood warnings and resulting deaths in TX. That attitude is reckless.

I’m not PP but you need to not scaremonger. Santa Barbara is only under an advisory, not a warning, and these are very different.

https://www.countyofsb.org/4725/Tsunami-Advisory-Issued-for-Santa-Barbar

Obviously OPs kid should heed any advice given by local officials, and I do think this has the potential for serious damage in some areas, but right now, Santa Barbara is not likely to be one of those places.

It’s irresponsible to scaremonger as well as to ignore warnings.

Telling OP it’s likely no big deal is insane. Her kid likely knows nothing about tsunamis. She needs to tell her kid to follow what local authorities are saying, That I agree with. Taking this specific scenario seriously is not “scare mongering”. It’s being prudent.

It is absolutely scaremongering to reference the Texas flash floods when discussing a Santa Barbara tsunami advisory. You are very, very out of line here. The specific geographies really matter here. Hawaii is at a likely serious risk, some of Northern California/Oregon possibly as well. Santa Barbara, thus far, is just under advisory. This is very different than a warning. You need to back down.

- Coastal Californian

The estimated time of arrival is after midnight when many will be asleep. The advisory should not be ignored by those in coastal areas because some rando PP said “ I’ve seen a lot of warnings in my life and most are canceled or not a big deal.” This could become a warning after locals go to sleep. Important factors for this particular scenarios are that 1- this is the most powerful earthquake in decades and 2- it cause a shift of the ocean floor- which causes tsunamis.

If the advisory switches to warning level IN SANTA BARBARA, the very, very loud tsunami sirens and emergency phone alerts will be far more effective than your useless scaremongering on DCUM.

Have you ever actually lived through a coastal California tsunami warning? Heard a tsunami siren in real life? It seems obvious you have not. You are very out of line here. It is utterly bizarre that you think your pronouncements on DCUM are more important than what local authorities are saying.

Literally everyone is saying follow the local authorities NOT what people on DCUM are saying.

Then the fear-mongering poster self-importantly referencing the Texas floods while not understanding the first thing about how California tsunami warnings work should probably stop trying to uselessly scare people like OP, who specifically asked about Santa Barbara. That poster is gross, a tragedy vampire.

Shut up. Let the rest of us discuss the warnings and what is happening. You made your point 3 posts ago.

What a jerk you are, ghoul.

OP, as predicted by the actual Californians with tsunami experience, I’m sure your kid is fine and it was actually no big deal.

This is the attitude that makes people start to ignore advisories/watches/warnings. After the tragedy that happened in Texas, people in this area STILL ignored the flash flood warnings last week. People had to be rescued in Tysons, Arlington and various towns in Maryland. Just because it has not happened yet when you got a warning l does not mean that you shouldn’t take precautions just in case. Hawaii handled this perfectly – took it seriously got people out of there quickly and told them what would happen and how long it would take to be rescued if they did not hede the evacuation warnings. I am a former emergency manager and attitudes like yours really pissed me off. People don’t take it seriously and then scream when a tragedy happens. I don’t care that your past experience has “been fine “or “no big deal“. A warning means conditions are such that they could be ripe for a tragedy. A watch advisory means you need to keep alert in case it gets increased to warning. That’s not fear mongering.

+1 Exactly!Thank you!