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Tsunami Closes Airports

Sendai Airport in Northern Japan was inundated by a tsunami and remained shut down.
Narita, which focuses on long international flights, was partially re-opened today.
Haneda, Tokyo’s other airport, closed for much of the day

Flights incoming to Tokyo were cancelled due to the quake and tsunami, and some diverted to U.S. Air Force’s Yokota Air

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Below is the TSUNAMI WARNING SUPPLEMENT for Hawaii Fri March 11
000
WEHW40 PHEB 111649
TSUHWX

HIZ001>003-005>009-012>014-016>021-023>026-111849-
/O.CON.PHEB.TS.W.0001.110311T1649Z-000000T0000Z/

BULLETIN
TSUNAMI MESSAGE NUMBER 12
NWS PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER EWA BEACH HI
648 AM HST FRI MAR 11 2011

TO – CIVIL DEFENSE IN THE STATE OF HAWAII

SUBJECT – TSUNAMI WARNING SUPPLEMENT

A TSUNAMI WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR THE STATE OF HAWAII.

AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS

ORIGIN TIME – 0746 PM HST 10 MAR 2011
COORDINATES – 38.3 NORTH 142.4 EAST
LOCATION – NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU JAPAN
MAGNITUDE – 8.9 MOMENT

MEASUREMENTS OR REPORTS OF TSUNAMI WAVE ACTIVITY

GAUGE LOCATION LAT LON TIME AMPL PER
——————- —– —— —– ————— —–
KWAJALEIN MH 8.7N 167.7E 1134Z 0.70M / 2.3FT 16MIN
CHRISTMAS KI 2.0N 157.5W 1459Z 0.52M / 1.7FT 18MIN
MANUS PG 2.0S 147.4E 1426Z 0.92M / 3.0FT 36MIN
PAGO PAGO AS 14.3S 170.7W 1556Z 0.35M / 1.2FT 14MIN
LUGANVILLE VU 15.5S 167.2E 1537Z 0.54M / 1.8FT 52MIN
VANUATU 17.8S 168.3E 1532Z 0.69M / 2.3FT 20MIN
DART 55012 15.8S 158.5E 1517Z 0.04M / 0.1FT 52MIN
DART 46404 45.9N 128.8W 1440Z 0.11M / 0.3FT 18MIN
KAPOHO HI 19.5N 154.8W 1408Z 0.06M / 0.2FT 14MIN
HONOLULU OAHU 21.3N 157.9W 1329Z 0.68M / 2.2FT 32MIN
HILO HAWAII 19.7N 155.1W 1357Z 1.32M / 4.3FT 24MIN
KAHULUI MAUI 20.9N 156.5W 1340Z 1.82M / 6.0FT 28MIN
LAHAINA HI 20.9N 156.7W 1335Z 0.50M / 1.6FT 64MIN
MILOLII HI 19.2N 155.9W 1350Z 0.67M / 2.2FT 12MIN
BARBERS PT HI 21.3N 158.1W 1323Z 0.65M / 2.1FT 06MIN
HONUAPO HI 19.1N 155.6W 1340Z 0.04M / 0.1FT 32MIN
HALEIWA HI 21.6N 158.1W 1329Z 1.09M / 3.6FT 38MIN
MAKAPU`U HI 21.3N 157.7W 1312Z 0.49M / 1.6FT 52MIN
KAWAIHAE HAWAII 20.0N 155.8W 1330Z 0.85M / 2.8FT 56MIN
HONOKOHAU HI 19.7N 156.0W 1345Z 0.44M / 1.4FT 10MIN
DART 51407 19.6N 156.5W 1322Z 0.17M / 0.6FT 44MIN
NAWILIWILI KAUAI 22.0N 159.4W 1311Z 0.64M / 2.1FT 26MIN
HANALEI HI 22.2N 159.5W 1306Z 0.85M / 2.8FT 28MIN
TERN FR. FRIGATE US 23.9N 166.3W 1224Z 0.37M / 1.2FT 16MIN
MALAKAL KOROR PW 7.3N 134.5E 1142Z 0.10M / 0.3FT 40MIN
LEGASPI PH 13.1N 123.8E 1049Z 0.26M / 0.8FT 58MIN
DART 46403 52.7N 156.9W 1128Z 0.09M / 0.3FT 60MIN
DART 52402 11.7N 154.2E 0932Z 0.29M / 0.9FT 22MIN
DART 46408 49.6N 169.9W 1030Z 0.14M / 0.5FT 18MIN
DART 21414 48.9N 178.3E 0927Z 0.18M / 0.6FT 24MIN
MIDWAY 28.2N 177.4W 1054Z 1.26M / 4.1FT 12MIN
YAP FM 9.5N 138.1E 0951Z 0.18M / 0.6FT 92MIN
WAKE US 19.3N 166.6E 0928Z 0.38M / 1.2FT 14MIN
SAIPAN US 15.2N 145.7E 0916Z 0.66M / 2.2FT 30MIN
TOSASHIMIZU SHIKOKU 32.8N 133.0E 0751Z 0.93M / 3.0FT 64MIN
OMAEZAKI HONSHU JP 34.6N 138.2E 0660Z 0.99M / 3.2FT 72MIN
DART 21418 38.7N 148.7E 0619Z 1.07M / 3.5FT 06MIN

LAT – LATITUDE (N-NORTH, S-SOUTH)
LON – LONGITUDE (E-EAST, W-WEST)
TIME – TIME OF THE MEASUREMENT (Z IS UTC IS GREENWICH TIME)
AMPL – TSUNAMI AMPLITUDE MEASURED RELATIVE TO NORMAL SEA LEVEL.
IT IS …NOT… CREST-TO-TROUGH WAVE HEIGHT.
VALUES ARE GIVEN IN BOTH METERS(M) AND FEET(FT).
PER – PERIOD OF TIME IN MINUTES(MIN) FROM ONE WAVE TO THE NEXT.

NOTE – DART MEASUREMENTS ARE FROM THE DEEP OCEAN AND THEY
ARE GENERALLY MUCH SMALLER THAN COASTAL MEASUREMENTS.

EVALUATION

A TSUNAMI HAS BEEN GENERATED THAT COULD CAUSE DAMAGE ALONG
COASTLINES OF ALL ISLANDS IN THE STATE OF HAWAII. URGENT ACTION
SHOULD BE TAKEN TO PROTECT LIVES AND PROPERTY.

A TSUNAMI IS A SERIES OF LONG OCEAN WAVES. EACH INDIVIDUAL WAVE
CREST CAN LAST 5 TO 15 MINUTES OR MORE AND EXTENSIVELY FLOOD
COASTAL AREAS. THE DANGER CAN CONTINUE FOR MANY HOURS AFTER THE
INITIAL WAVE AS SUBSEQUENT WAVES ARRIVE. TSUNAMI WAVE HEIGHTS
CANNOT BE PREDICTED AND THE FIRST WAVE MAY NOT BE THE LARGEST.
TSUNAMI WAVES EFFICIENTLY WRAP AROUND ISLANDS. ALL SHORES ARE AT
RISK NO MATTER WHICH DIRECTION THEY FACE. THE TROUGH OF A TSUNAMI
WAVE MAY TEMPORARILY EXPOSE THE SEAFLOOR BUT THE AREA WILL
QUICKLY FLOOD AGAIN. EXTREMELY STRONG AND UNUSUAL NEARSHORE
CURRENTS CAN ACCOMPANY A TSUNAMI. DEBRIS PICKED UP AND CARRIED
BY A TSUNAMI AMPLIFIES ITS DESTRUCTIVE POWER. SIMULTANEOUS HIGH
TIDES OR HIGH SURF CAN SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE THE TSUNAMI HAZARD.

THE ESTIMATED ARRIVAL TIME IN HAWAII OF THE FIRST TSUNAMI WAVE IS

0307 AM HST FRI 11 MAR 2011

MESSAGES WILL BE ISSUED HOURLY OR SOONER AS CONDITIONS WARRANT.
…SP…

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