Fellow working in a dive school said the bay at Phuket, Thailant emptied
completely and fish were flopping around for 5 minutes before the wave hit.
He realized what was happening and got a bunch of people to the second
story of the building, which saved most of them, although they did get
washed out of the building. This was on As It Happens, CBC/RCI.

Fellow working in a dive school said the bay at Phuket, Thailant emptied
completely and fish were flopping around for 5 minutes before the wave hit.
He realized what was happening and got a bunch of people to the second
story of the building, which saved most of them, although they did get
washed out of the building. This was on As It Happens, CBC/RCI.



http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapc...8/more.emails/

My wife and I were scuba diving, about 20 meters down, off the shore of Sri
Lanka when the first wave hit. All of a sudden the current became unbelievable.
Everyone held on to coral or whatever they could to prevent themselves from
being swept away. As we surfaced, the boat, which had been tied to a buoy was
still intact. We began to return to the dive center when we looked and realized
the beach had simply disappeared. We could see the hotels in a shambles (some
of them collapsing) and tons of debris in the water. We headed to the dive
center and then we saw another wave heading for us. We ran for our lives. We
were some of the lucky ones. Warren and Julie Lavender, Colombo, Sri Lanka

uncle arnie wrote:

Fellow working in a dive school said the bay at Phuket, Thailant emptied
completely and fish were flopping around for 5 minutes before the wave hit.
He realized what was happening and got a bunch of people to the second
story of the building, which saved most of them, although they did get
washed out of the building. This was on As It Happens, CBC/RCI.

I wonder how many of the uneducated fishermen around the ocean wandered
onto the bare beaches out of curiosity, not knowing anything about
tsunamis, and got trapped. That's what happened when a tsunami hit
Hawaii in 1946-people got curious as to why the ocean level had suddenly
gone down and ventured onto the newly revealed land, only to be drowned
when the return wave hit. Then again, all the video footage I've seen on
American TV shows the ocean gently lapping on the beach, then suddenly a
huge wave comes out of nowhere and washes over everything. One tape
shows the wave towering higher than a one story building on the
beach-you can see the spray on the roof before it's totally engulfed.
ABC (US) interviewed an Australian woman who was holding on to her two
young sons when the wave pulled them under, and the only way to save
herself was to let go of one of the boys. So she let the oldest (five
years old) go, and watched as he was washed away. Somehow, he survived,
even though he can't swim-he grabbed on to a door floating in the water
and rode it to safety.

. Then again, all the video footage I've seen on
American TV shows the ocean gently lapping on the beach, then suddenly a
huge wave comes out of nowhere and washes over everything.

Tsunami are seismicly generated, very low, and very long; the wave period is in
the 1,000 second range,
instead of 10 -20 seconds like normal sea swells.
-So, in a Tsunami, the sea level receded very Slowly, leaving the normal wave
action on top. Perceived Sea level drops.
Then the wave front of the Tsunami comes in, and the water goes in the reverse
( inland direction )
for an equal duration.

if you go HERE

http://jlgolson.blogspot.com/2004/12/tsunami-video.html

- and look for the sri lanka video taken from a hotel over a swimming pool,
looking oout to sea, you can see the wave coming in.

- Probably the reason everyone had their video cameras ready was because,
for ten minutes prior to that,
The " Sea" had been " going out"

Harveyat8c43z0 wrote:

. Then again, all the video footage I've seen on
American TV shows the ocean gently lapping on the beach, then suddenly a
huge wave comes out of nowhere and washes over everything.

Tsunami are seismicly generated, very low, and very long; the wave period is in
the 1,000 second range,
instead of 10 -20 seconds like normal sea swells.
-So, in a Tsunami, the sea level receded very Slowly, leaving the normal wave
action on top. Perceived Sea level drops.
Then the wave front of the Tsunami comes in, and the water goes in the reverse
( inland direction )
for an equal duration.

if you go HERE

http://jlgolson.blogspot.com/2004/12/tsunami-video.html

- and look for the sri lanka video taken from a hotel over a swimming pool,
looking oout to sea, you can see the wave coming in.

- Probably the reason everyone had their video cameras ready was because,
for ten minutes prior to that,
The " Sea" had been " going out"

Or, they were simply taking 'tourist videos' at the time, documenting their stay in
'paradise'.

6 of one, half dozen of the other.

dxAce
Michigan
The United States of America

dxAce wrote:

Harveyat8c43z0 wrote:

. Then again, all the video footage I've seen on
American TV shows the ocean gently lapping on the beach, then suddenly a
huge wave comes out of nowhere and washes over everything.

Tsunami are seismicly generated, very low, and very long; the wave period is in
the 1,000 second range,
instead of 10 -20 seconds like normal sea swells.
-So, in a Tsunami, the sea level receded very Slowly, leaving the normal wave
action on top. Perceived Sea level drops.
Then the wave front of the Tsunami comes in, and the water goes in the reverse
( inland direction )
for an equal duration.

if you go HERE

http://jlgolson.blogspot.com/2004/12/tsunami-video.html

- and look for the sri lanka video taken from a hotel over a swimming pool,
looking oout to sea, you can see the wave coming in.

- Probably the reason everyone had their video cameras ready was because,
for ten minutes prior to that,
The " Sea" had been " going out"

Or, they were simply taking 'tourist videos' at the time, documenting their stay in
'paradise'.

6 of one, half dozen of the other.

Additionally, the sea did not go 'out' in all locales, it simply came in.



dxAce
Michigan
The United States of America

Thanks for the link. Everyone travelling to a seacoast should have basic
info about what to and signs to watch for re tsunamis.

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 07:33, Harveyat8c43z0 posted to
rec.radio.shortwave: %MM

. Then again, all the video footage I've seen on
American TV shows the ocean gently lapping on the beach, then suddenly a
huge wave comes out of nowhere and washes over everything.

Tsunami are seismicly generated, very low, and very long; the wave period
is in the 1,000 second range,
instead of 10 -20 seconds like normal sea swells.
-So, in a Tsunami, the sea level receded very Slowly, leaving the normal
wave action on top. Perceived Sea level drops.
Then the wave front of the Tsunami comes in, and the water goes in the
reverse ( inland direction )
for an equal duration.

if you go HERE

http://jlgolson.blogspot.com/2004/12/tsunami-video.html

- and look for the sri lanka video taken from a hotel over a swimming
pool, looking oout to sea, you can see the wave coming in.

- Probably the reason everyone had their video cameras ready was because,
for ten minutes prior to that,
The " Sea" had been " going out"

Just Sleep on the second floor / Back;
- You'll be fine..



Thanks for the link. Everyone travelling to a seacoast should have basic
info about what to and signs to watch for re tsunamis.

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 07:33, Harveyat8c43z0 posted to
rec.radio.shortwave: %MM

. Then again, all the video footage I've seen on
American TV shows the ocean gently lapping on the beach, then suddenly a
huge wave comes out of nowhere and washes over everything.

Tsunami are seismicly generated, very low, and very long; the wave period
is in the 1,000 second range,
instead of 10 -20 seconds like normal sea swells.
-So, in a Tsunami, the sea level receded very Slowly, leaving the normal
wave action on top. Perceived Sea level drops.
Then the wave front of the Tsunami comes in, and the water goes in the
reverse ( inland direction )
for an equal duration.

if you go HERE

http://jlgolson.blogspot.com/2004/12/tsunami-video.html

- and look for the sri lanka video taken from a hotel over a swimming
pool, looking oout to sea, you can see the wave coming in.

- Probably the reason everyone had their video cameras ready was because,
for ten minutes prior to that,
The " Sea" had been " going out"

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 17:46, Harveyat8c43z0 posted to
rec.radio.shortwave: %MM

Just Sleep on the second floor / Back;
- You'll be fine..


They said 10 metres in some places, that's 32 feet. Maybe the 3rd or 4th
story, but it's a problem in the daytime too: if the bay empties, everyone
needs to know that they better get to that higher ground!



Thanks for the link. Everyone travelling to a seacoast should have basic
info about what to and signs to watch for re tsunamis.

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 07:33, Harveyat8c43z0 posted
to rec.radio.shortwave: %MM

. Then again, all the video footage I've seen on
American TV shows the ocean gently lapping on the beach, then suddenly a
huge wave comes out of nowhere and washes over everything.

Tsunami are seismicly generated, very low, and very long; the wave
period is in the 1,000 second range,
instead of 10 -20 seconds like normal sea swells.
-So, in a Tsunami, the sea level receded very Slowly, leaving the
normal wave action on top. Perceived Sea level drops.
Then the wave front of the Tsunami comes in, and the water goes in the
reverse ( inland direction )
for an equal duration.

if you go HERE

http://jlgolson.blogspot.com/2004/12/tsunami-video.html

- and look for the sri lanka video taken from a hotel over a swimming
pool, looking oout to sea, you can see the wave coming in.

- Probably the reason everyone had their video cameras ready was
because, for ten minutes prior to that,
The " Sea" had been " going out"

uncle arnie wrote:

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 17:46, Harveyat8c43z0 posted to
rec.radio.shortwave: %MM

Just Sleep on the second floor / Back;
- You'll be fine..


They said 10 metres in some places, that's 32 feet. Maybe the 3rd or 4th
story, but it's a problem in the daytime too: if the bay empties, everyone
needs to know that they better get to that higher ground!

Some tall resort hotels were completely wiped off the face of the earth
by the wave. Nobody had thought of building them to withstand a wall of
water. Not only that, most of the natives lived in shacks and other
poorly built houses, which turned into all that debris. There isn't much
place to run from a 30 foot wave if you're on flat ground. Many islands
in the Nicobar (sp?) chain were completely covered by the wave because
they're so flat; as many as 30,000 people had no higher ground to run
to. Those islands are now uninhabited. Radio Australia has stopped
giving a total death toll, at 0200 UTC they said that 95,000 people just
in Indonesia were killed. The total death toll is probably around
250,000-and that's not counting the tens of thousands who will never be
found because they were washed out to sea.




Thanks for the link. Everyone travelling to a seacoast should have basic
info about what to and signs to watch for re tsunamis.

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 07:33, Harveyat8c43z0 posted
to rec.radio.shortwave: %MM

. Then again, all the video footage I've seen on
American TV shows the ocean gently lapping on the beach, then suddenly a
huge wave comes out of nowhere and washes over everything.

Tsunami are seismicly generated, very low, and very long; the wave
period is in the 1,000 second range,
instead of 10 -20 seconds like normal sea swells.
-So, in a Tsunami, the sea level receded very Slowly, leaving the
normal wave action on top. Perceived Sea level drops.
Then the wave front of the Tsunami comes in, and the water goes in the
reverse ( inland direction )
for an equal duration.

if you go HERE

http://jlgolson.blogspot.com/2004/12/tsunami-video.html

- and look for the sri lanka video taken from a hotel over a swimming
pool, looking oout to sea, you can see the wave coming in.

- Probably the reason everyone had their video cameras ready was
because, for ten minutes prior to that,
The " Sea" had been " going out"