M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued

Re:M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued by Tor3 on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @02:50AM (#44731485)

A tsunami absolutely does not fit our intuition of what waves are. It looks like a wave. But it does not stop. It just continues. That little wave goes on an on, farther and farther inland. After an hour it may still go on. It's a nightmare wave, because it doesn't not fit one's intuition of what waves are.

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Re:M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued by ninetyninenine on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @10:42AM (#44734876)

>It looks like a wave.

and it IS a wave. I don't understand the resistance here. It BOTH is a wave and looks like a wave.

But because it does not stop, it is not a "wave". Let's just stop with the strange pedantism.

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Re:M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued by Tor3 on Thursday July 31, 2025 @07:01AM (#44744351)

I'm reacting against the word "intuition" here. Nobody said it isn't a wave. But it's not like a wave as our intuition says.

(Though it does not _always_ look like a wave - check out the timelapse video from Kuji harbor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1B1J6sgFxk - that's why you'll sometimes see people talking about it looking like a (very) high tide. As an example of the nightmare "wave" which doesn't stop, and is thus un-intuitive.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3618dZoiaPE which is incidentally also from Kuji, but from 2011)

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Re:M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued by ninetyninenine on Thursday July 31, 2025 @12:49PM (#44747490)

I know what you’re talking about. But intuitively it’s still a wave.

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