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Originally posted by OohTeenyWahine
I've been keeping up with the news coming in and it's disastrous.

With all these images coming in, y'all don't even know--I'm in FEAR. Call me crazy if you want, but you can do so with the comfort of knowing you'll never be hit by one because you're inland. Yesterday, I looked through the white pages to educate myself on where my house is at should a tsunami hit Oahu and my house lies in an evacuation zone. I didn't even know. I thought we were too far inland, but I guess not. The maps showed us where the nearest evacuation shelter was, and I made sure my mom and the rest of my family members know where to go and what to do.

I know that there's sophisticated instruments to let us know in advance if a tsunami is headed our way, but you never know. It's happened twice already to the Islands, and it could surely happen all over again. With the Pac Rim being so unstable, you never know what can happen. Lord help us if devastation like that happens all over again.

And it really depends on where the epicenter of a major earthquake is located and how powerful it is to determine how much time you have before a tsunami (it irks me when people call 'em "tidal waves", which is incorrect) hits. Close to shore, you may have only minutes. Far enough away you may have some hours to allow a more orderly evacuation.