tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5211670216140060946.post5415434321810700644..comments2024-03-17T18:37:36.377-07:00Comments on Geotripper: Tso, can you Tsurf a Tsunami?Garry Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00531226195147986457noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5211670216140060946.post-69925690283568541032017-04-01T06:22:28.786-07:002017-04-01T06:22:28.786-07:00Antone Aguiar was my great grandfather (pictured a...Antone Aguiar was my great grandfather (pictured above) freeing the Brigham Victory ship. Anita (Bigelow) Birknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5211670216140060946.post-3335348327068716962009-08-03T15:31:15.960-07:002009-08-03T15:31:15.960-07:00Just out of curiosity, is there any model data on ...Just out of curiosity, is there any model data on what a bolide impact-induced tsunami might be like? As part of my intro geology class, I show the Atlantic impact snippet from the movie "Deep Impact" and discuss what is good and bad about it; one of the bad things is that I am fairly certain that the New York-destroying tsunami is moving far, far too slow for such a huge impact...I haven't done any math to support it, but I suspect that that wave would move faster than the speed of sound, not to mention be <b>way</b> more destructive than the movie depicted (buildings left standing...?!?) I know of purported impact-induced tsunamites, including those (now disputed) along the southern coast of the U.S. from the Chicxulub end-Cretaceous impact, but never seen any work on what the waves themselves would be like...dinogamihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14959197175594052460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5211670216140060946.post-36133625040074534462009-07-29T11:45:46.162-07:002009-07-29T11:45:46.162-07:00Thanks to both of you for your comments. I am real...Thanks to both of you for your comments. I am really pleased to hear from people who were there in Hilo. Geologists are an odd bunch; most people would choose to be somewhere else, but we would want to see it happen. I guess you have to be very careful what you wish for!Garry Hayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00531226195147986457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5211670216140060946.post-9552003260351910332009-07-29T11:06:18.416-07:002009-07-29T11:06:18.416-07:00I, too, am a Hilo boy. As a 16-year-old I went dow...I, too, am a Hilo boy. As a 16-year-old I went down to see the 1960 tsunami and didn't die, but it was a near thing. <br /><br />I do believe, though, that the third wave, at about 1:03 AM, was the big one. <br /><br />And Wall's Mom is right. I was on the bridge over the Wailuku, and had a clear view of the power plant when it blew. Spectacular. Of course that was approximately at the moment I was certain that I was going to die, which lent a certain vividness to the scene.DMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02276824485367287623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5211670216140060946.post-6994524357952567712009-07-29T09:16:42.998-07:002009-07-29T09:16:42.998-07:00We lived in Hilo during the 1960 quake. I was all ...We lived in Hilo during the 1960 quake. I was all of two years old, but my father, a jounalist, was working downtown when it hit -- the fourth wave was the Big One and sounded like a freight train. My mom, who'd been watching from our home above Hilo, said it looked like the city exploded when the wave hit, especially when the electric generating plant got hit. After getting news of the quake in Chile that created the tsunami, my dad went to see a seismologist at the Volcano Observatory and was shown the seismograph that recorded the quake. The needle had jumped right off the drum.John W. Wallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03857907425270640823noreply@blogger.com