Here are a few links and videos from the earthquake and Tsunami. More later.
Links:
Wikipedia page for Sendai quake (already!)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=PBZGH3yieLc[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3AdFjklR50[/youtube]
9MSN: A tsunami warning was issued to a number of Pacific, southeast Asian and Latin American nations, including Indonesia, the Philippines, the US state of Hawaii, Russia and Chile, after yesterday’s devastating earthquake in Japan. READ STORY HERE
Why you can’t surf a tsunami
You can’t surf a tsunami because it doesn’t have a face. Many people have the misconception that a tsunami wave will resemble the 25-foot waves at Jaws, Waimea or Maverick’s, but this is incorrect: those waves look nothing like a tsunami. On the contrary, a tsunami wave approaching land is more like a wall of whitewater. It doesn’t stack up cleanly into a breaking wave; only a portion of the wave is able to stack up tall. Since the wave is 100 miles long and the tail end of the wave is still traveling at 500 mph, the shore end of the wave becomes extremely thick, and is forced to run far inland, over streets and trees and houses.
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