If we end up with 6 inch tsunami waves is the media going to talk as long about it as they have

[RB TexLa]

about the guy who did not blow up a plane?

[cherokeeprogressive]

1. I don't think you have too much to worry about in Plano.

If it WEREN'T talked about, and there were people killed in Hawaii, people would be calling for blood.

[RB TexLa]

2. You think 6 inch waves might kill people?

[cherokeeprogressive]

7. I think there have already been NINE FOOT waves.

That's what I think.

"USGS geophysicist Victor Sardina said several tsunami waves had come ashore along the Chilean coast; the largest was recorded at 9 feet near the quake's epicenter."

"Saturday's epicenter was just a few miles north of the largest earthquake recorded in the world, a magnitude 9.5 quake in May 1960 that killed 1,655 and unleashed a tsunami that crossed the Pacific.

The earthquake off the west coast of South America caused a tsunami that reached the Hawaiian Islands in about 15 hours. This tsunami caused little damage elsewhere in the islands, but the Hilo Bay area was hard hit. Sixty-one people lost their lives and about 540 homes and businesses were destroyed or severely damaged. The wave heights in Hilo Bay reached 35 feet compared to only 3-17 feet elsewhere."

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/27/chile.quake/index.html

[Blue_In_AK]

3. NOAA is suggesting perhaps a 6- to 9-foot tsunami

in Hawaii. I don't think this is anything to joke about.

[RB TexLa]

6. I said "if" I wasn't making a prediction or forecast

[kagi]

4. Six inch waves...

I for one hope for zero impact anywhere, and don't particularly care about media frenzies. Geraldo moments aren't my worry, I'd much rather this all be a fantastic exercise in futility, so that people, if there is a major danger coming their way, know what to do.

Besides, either way, the media has the devastation in Chile to show us pictures of; a non tsunami event will just escalate the timeline to get cameras out to remote islands to show us how bad it could have been in Hawaii.

[azmouse]

5. Well if the media could devote hours of coverage to a nonstory like Tiger

than a story where humans could be killed should warrant this amount of coverage.