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Brief Yet Rare California Tsunami Advisory

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

This has to be the first time we've seen a Tsunami Advisory show up on the NWS alert feeds. The watches and warnings were mostly in effect for the West Pacific as well as Alaska, but California had a brief advisory this morning before being canceled.

TSUNAMI MESSAGE NUMBER 5
609 AM PST WED NOV 15 2006

A TSUNAMI HAS BEEN OBSERVED AT THE FOLLOWING SITES
HANASAKI, JAPAN 30CM/1.0FT
KUSHIRO, JAPAN 25CM/0.8FT
SHEMYA, ALASKA 20CM/0.65FT
WAVE HEIGHTS ARE THE AMPLITUDE ABOVE MEAN SEA LEVEL.

...AT THIS TIME THIS MESSAGE IS ADVISORY ONLY FOR OTHER AREAS OF CALIFORNIA - OREGON - AND WASHINGTON...

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