A Tsunami Predicted by Psychics on George Noory Show...for Seattle

one or two psychics phoning in, saying they are "seeing" a tsunami in seattle happening saturday or sunday.

don't these waves start far, far away and wouldn't geologists be able to see it coming?

or can an earthquake in the ocean go undetected and then the tsunami just kinda sneaks up on you?

Close to shore little or no warning. Farther out they can be detected but, they travel at hundreds of miles an hour. So they have to be pretty damn far out to give you much warning.

I should add what a joke I find psychics. I'm certainly not sweating the West Coast based on these folks.

Tsunamis can be caused by landslides into the ocean, too.

Check this out: http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf115/sf115p09.htm

edited to add details:

Worse waves may be on tap. A 4,760 cubic mile chunk of the Big Island (Hawaii) is breaking away at the rate of 4 inches per year. This is the Hilina Slump, and it is said to be "the most rapidly moving tract of ground on Earth for its size." The Hilina Slump can move much faster. At 4:48 AM, November 29, 1975, a 37-mile-wide section suddenly dropped 11½ feet and slid seaward 26 feet. The result was a magnitude-7.2 quake and a 48-foot-high tsunami. This was a minor of the slump. If the entire 4,760-cubic-mile block decided to break off, it would probably create a magnitude-9 quake and a tsunami 1,000-feet high. All the coast-hugging cities of the Hawaiian Islands would be swept away. And LOOK OUT Australia, Japan, and California.

:scared:

...but I think a tsunami could occur within hours of a major seismic event. So, a Sunday, or even a Saturday, tsunami could still happen.

from the other side of the world, and the US has a very extensive tsunami warning system in place.

Also, the islands would protect Seattle from normal tsunamis.

So I really wouldn't worry about it.

Not going to worry much about Seattle, but outlying places would get whonked.

It would have to go over the Olympic mountains.

:hi:

"but THAT is the ocean", no it's not, "the ocean" is out west side.

they always mention Seattle...drive me nuts!!!

That whole coast could have only a minute or two warning, and with the fault that close the problem would be compounded by the quake damage -- even if you could run, the bridges would be out, roads blocked, fires burning.

It would be a real sucky day.

either that.....or he's capitalizing on the fear and ignorance of rightwing halfwit insomniacs

wonder which one it is

Not all of George Noory's listeners are right wing, not at all. I doubt no more than half.

Not all his listeners believe the stuff on his show, either. It can be pretty interesting, and you can take it with a grain of salt. Listening to his show is similar to listening to ghost stories.

An underwater landslide could cause a Tsunami that appeared fairly quickly if it occured not too far off the coast.

I'm just sayin...

...a leap-of-faith, with no empirical evidence.

members here heard on their radio...

i'm not listening to his crazy show (...honest...) (i'm on the computer with animal planet on the tv in the other room)

but my psychic powers say that there will be no tsunamin anywhere on earth on Sat or Sun. Should I go on a kook's radio show and make that prediction? I bet I would not get past the phone screener...

sP

Note that Seattle is not anywhere near the Pacific Ocean coastline. There are a number of natural disasters that are potential threats to Seattle. Tsunamis are not among them, except in the minds of the geographically illiterate.

:D

See that li'l patch just above Port Angeles? That's where I am, and at +10' above sea level.

Lucky my place is for sale. If I get an offer tomorrow morning, I'm taking it!

See this link : http://weather.about.com/library/weekly/aa102902a.htm

"Scientists have revealed evidence of a devastating tsunami that swept over the Seattle area about 1,100 years ago following an earthquake in Puget Sound"

http://weather.about.com/library/weekly/aa102902a.htm

how weird is that??

Has Homeland Security prepared Seattle for that kind of disaster?

I thought not.

The Republicons screw everything up.

at least that was the show they were playing in Chicago.

:popcorn: :popcorn:

Please note this and I want national television and radio coverage after my correct psychic prediction.

...:-)

Ain't. Gunna. Happen.

The Juan de Fuca plate has been measurably unstable lately. Most of the scientists, the (few remaining) intelligent FEMA workers, and civil administrators in the Northwest are uncomfortably aware of it.

Seattle itself has some natural anti-tsunami buffering, but it pays to remember that in Japanese, tsunami means harbor wave. You just can't predict nature. If the JdF plate took a major slip, there could be very robust tsunamis and a whole lot of dead people in a lot of areas, especially given the sad and tragic joke that FEMA has become. Let us hope that the USGS (US Geological Survey) has kept its standards up better than FEMA has.

As for psychics, what they lack in accuracy of prediction, they make up for in awareness of public fears. Like the wretches in the parable of Plato's cave being deceived by the shadows on the walls, they are reporting on reflected fears of the locals. A lot of people in Cascadia are concerned about this. While most of the world has heard nothing about this, the people living in the Northwest don't need psychic powers to understand that when trouble does come, they will be on their own.

--p!

I might have to listen to Letterman again tonight as a lullaby with Al's soothing voice.

Indonesia is a country of over one hundred million people.

When the tsunami hit the day after Christmas 2004, it killed 200,000 people.

That's one five-hundredth (1/500th) of the population.

It was an enormous disaster, to be sure, but it wasn't universal death.

Nearly 2000 people died in the Katrina/FEMA disaster in New Orleans; the city and its suburbs had a population of about 1.5 million. That's under one one-thousandth (1/1000th) of the population.

Again, a tragedy, a Bushian atrocity, but not lethal to all residents of NOLA. In fact, well-founded predictions of upwards of 50,000 deaths did not materialize. People were far more able to cope with the disaster than they were given credit for.

A big slip of the Juan de Fuca plate could cause a major disaster in the Pacific Northwest, and it could kill a large number of people, but it wouldn't cause a significant loss of population. While there are a lot of risky areas in which to live, even if you personally are close to the water, the chances that you would personally lose your life would be low. And the cities of that area, from Vancouver to Portland, are all progressively administered, and have had modern building codes in place since the 1960s, when geologists and architects began working on earthquake-resistant buildings.

I have a reputation around here for "doom and gloom". I've sounded similar warnings for flu epi/pandemics, climate and environmental changes, "Peak Oil", and a number of other problems. But people misunderstand. My point isn't that the world is coming to an end, but that it's always a good idea to plan for bad things. As for the exact danger in the PacNW, it doesn't take a psychic to sound the alert to the danger (and I note that a lot of the traffic in this thread is simply the usual gratuitous complaining about psychics).

If you're up way past your normal bedtime, it ought to be from something worthwhile. Coffee, maybe, or what they used to call "adult activities". What they used to call "acts of God" are unavoidable anywhere. I've been through a few small AoGs myself; a close friend of mine and her daughter had to be rescued by boat from their apartment during a flood on a supposedly elevated section of town. People have died in floods; she got enough jokes out of it for a stand-up comedy act.

Good night / Sleep tight / Don't let the tsunamis bite.

--p!

I wonder what excuse they will give when it doesnt happen.

but that show was a repeat from 2004, I believe.

I remember watching this long program devoted to it. It would be even worse than the Asian Tsunami because the fault is much closer to the shore.

as much as the size of a quake.

just a loud bank when a substantial chunk of mountain slid into the bay :
http://www.usc.edu/dept/tsunamis/alaska/1958/webpages/
Fortunately it only affected a restricted area.

That's more than can be said for what could follow this event were it to occur :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3963563.stm
That would be goodbye Boston, goodbye New York............. no more than 5 hours later.
Wouldn't do Ireland the south coast of England much good either.

As far as I'm aware the record still stand with the tsunami which followed one of the Hawaiian Islands splitting. The tsunami is thought to have crossed the entire North American continent thereby transferring some of the Pacific into the Atlantic.

(Pacific North West). I think it's going to be on tomorrow, but have no other info.