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Originally posted by justin 16 inch swells dude, Tubular! grabbing my boogie board asap

it's not even worth me breakin out the surfboard...



4-6ft pls!

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saw a show on nat geographic about these a couple of weeks back. Some very good information on it. I wonder how they can tell a '16 inch' tsunami from a normal wave though

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Originally posted by Ian saw a show on nat geographic about these a couple of weeks back. Some very good information on it. I wonder how they can tell a '16 inch' tsunami from a normal wave though

Something like this:

http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/Dart/Jpg/DART-II_05x.swf

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Originally posted by _Nut_ Something like this: http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/Dart/Jpg/DART-II_05x.swf

ok, so they managed to get a reading for what seemed like just a normal wave to most people, or would it have exhibited the same signs as a big tsunami with the water receeding (but obviously not much) ?

Well, I regular wave and a tsunami wave of the same height would differ because tsunami waves are much more powerful?

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Originally posted by Sunsnail Well, I regular wave and a tsunami wave of the same height would differ because tsunami waves are much more powerful?

So the 16-inch tsunami pushed cars about?

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