waikiki honolulu tsunami 2/27/10

the tsunami that never happened

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• waikiki
• whykiki
• tsunami
• hawaii
• chile
• earthquack
• waves
• hilo

[HPPC]

This scenario would be better fitting with Capitol Hill and the Congressional District.

[DrJewish]

soooo fake!

[HPPC]

I apologize if you had such a horrible time in Waikiki. Now I understand.

[HPPC]

This tidal wave would be very effective over your high school, even if it is in Utah or Dakota

[HPPC]

I saw this on the Discovery Channel and went ballistic.

[HPPC]

Isn't cut and pasting wonderful?

You cut and pasted this scenario, without actually being in that kind of wave. In realistic proportional time.

[HPPC]

same thing to the depth. That wave will have to be in a funnel aiming at the hotel to keep its height and its force. But doesn't that wave remind you of preparing to "take off" prior to your surfboard riding descent?

[HPPC]

Starting over. A wave of that sort does not take place in knee deep water. You are "extrapolating" that wave from surfing at Sunset Beach. You already know that a wave of that configuration is 30 - 40 feet  deep underneath. When you KICK up the proportions, you also have to do the

[HPPC]

Another possibility is if the geological plate on which the island sits sinks for some reason that techtonic plates sink, then a wave of that magnitute is possible. But waikiki would be underwater to begin with.

[HPPC]

unencumbered, meaning not tripped up by coral buttheads and deflection of the sea floor turning the wave away. The twenty story height of the wave needing a forty story foundation depth requires that the swimable part of the beach be forty stories deep. Notice that a tsunami wave does not look surfable in shape but rather like a huge massive bed matress, and offers no rideable configuration. A constant and building force is another possibility to create that ideal wave height.