In an event rarely seen in Southern California, the waters of San Diego Bay rose by 1.4 feet on Saturday due to the arrival of tsunami waves produced by an underwater volcano that erupted in the Pacific off Tonga, according to the National Weather Service.
The water also rose by 6 inches in La Jolla. Forecasters say the bay magnifies the tide, which is likely responsible for the higher reading.
“It looks like things have topped out, but there’s still a lot of variabilities,” said Brandt Maxwell, a forecaster at the weather service office in Rancho Bernardo. “We could still have unusual currents, including in places where you normally don’t see them.”
At about 11 am this morning, Port San Luis in San Luis Obispo Bay on the Central Coast had logged the largest surge in California with a 4.3-foot increase in water level, according to the weather service. Videos on social media showed flooding surges in Santa Cruz, putting at least one parking lot underwater.
Close-up of magnetic solar filament erupting during the early hours of February 24, 2012. Notice closer to the surface the solar atmosphere splits and waves of solar material fan out in opposite directions from the split (almost 248,500 miles long), like tsunami waves. This eruption hurled a coronal mass ejection in the direction of Earth. This video ranges from Feb 23 22:32:44 to Feb 24 04:31:32 UT.
Pulled from Japanese theaters: Hereafter, with Jessica Griffiths, left, and Cecile De France, opened with a tsunami scene that wipes out a coastal town and claims the lives of approximately 10,000 people.
Hollywood's attempt to cash-in on Japan's recent Tsunami disaster flops as studios shy away from Clint Eastwood's new Warner Bro's production titled "Hereafter".
"Generally, you need time to buffer" between movie and tragedy, says Brandon Gray, president of Box Office Mojo. "You need stories of heroism and survival. Scenes of devastation and bodies, especially if it's a real event, won't cut it."
But Kevin Tsujihara, head of Warner Bros.' home-video division, says filmmaking isn't a priority. "Our hearts and prayers go out to the people of Japan," he said in the news release. "We are committed to supporting relief and rebuilding efforts during this difficult time."
Bock says he doesn't expect tsunami films for years, given studios' abysmal showing with war-themed movies. Godzilla pictures, for instance, which sprang from World War II atomic bomb attacks, took a decade to reach theaters.
"People aren't going to be eager to see a feature movie about this anytime soon," Bock says. "Look how long it took us to accept Michael Bay doing a movie about Pearl Harbor. And it still wasn't as popular as Armageddon."
26 Kagoshima Local Meteorological Observatory, Kagoshima, Kirishima mountain range located on the border of Miyazaki (as Moe Shin) (1421 m) the eruption alert level to "2 (Regulation crater)" to "3 (Iriyama regulation)," raised . That there is a risk of widespread scattered cinder. Level 3 alert, the first time since the eruption alert level system was introduced in December 2007, the Meteorological Agency. Kirishima City, Kagoshima Prefecture, were banned within a radius of 2 kilometers from the crater. According to the same weather stations, a very small eruption occurred at 7:00 in the morning 31 minutes. 3:30 pm up to 1500 meters in the plume, the ash flowed extensively to the southeast. Ash flows in Miyazaki will be closed to traffic and highway Miyazaki, Miyazaki airport fine but the other one after another, and even forego some sections the navigation JR, have begun to impact on civilian life. Observatory, "If further increases the amount of magma, may cause massive eruption" and as flying in the morning to investigate the situation 27. Aviation Department - Shooting - Mainichi
Close-up of damage at crisis-hit nuclear power plant
A video provided by the Japanese government shows footage taken at the crisis-hit Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant. It has been learned that water containing high levels of radiation has been gathering on the floors of turbine buildings of the plant's No. 1, 2 and 4 nuclear reactors. The news comes after three emergency workers were exposed to radiation at the No. 3 reactor. In the No. 2 reactor in particular, radiation of more than 1,000 millisieverts per hour -- more than 1,000 times the maximum limit of radiation an ordinary person is allowed to be exposed to in a year -- was detected on the water's surface. (Video courtesy of the Ministry of Defense)
Tsunami earthquake that occurred in East is East and reached the coast around within 10 minutes after the earthquake, it might be a dozen or more meters in height climbed up, Takashi Komura of Tokyo Earthquake Research The analysis found the professors office. Komura and his colleagues, based on an analysis of the U.S. Geological Survey, 600 km from north to south in the first earthquake, assuming the fault moved 17 m 250 km east to west. Reproduced in the computer generation and the conduction of the tsunami. As a result, the tsunami waves began pulling slightly to the side of the Pacific Ocean coast of Ibaraki Prefecture, Iwate Prefecture, early arrival at less than 10 minutes. Typically, the tsunami is transferred from the epicenter in concentric circles, and fast reach closest to the epicenter, the earthquake has long since moved north and south leading to the offshore area off Sanriku Ibaraki, almost simultaneously reached the coast of East that there is a possibility. Professor Takashi Komura of Tokyo Earthquake Research Institute - provides video =]
Footage shows tsunami hitting Iwate city
Mobile phone footage provided to the Mainichi by a reader shows a massive tsunami striking the city of Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, on March 11, 2011.
Radioactive material was released by TEPCO Fukushima first nuclear accident, how to spread in North America and Europe take the strong westerlies, Kyushu University, reproduced by computer simulation, such as Tokyo University team. Online Journal of Meteorological Society of Japan issued nearly "SOLA" to announce. http://mainichi.jp/select/science/news/m20110623k0000m040062000c.html
