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This link was sent to me by my brother - http:// http://coreykoberg.com/Tsunami/Shows the tsumani wave coming ashore and people watching it. Here on N.H. seacoast we get strong ocean storms and the waves come over the sea wall - inevitably there are people who stand at the wall watching the waves come in - as the people in the picture are doing - unaware of the danger. It's a dangerous thing to do. Waves pull up debris from the ocean floor, including large rocks which can kill because of the force of the water. Then as the wave receded with the tidal pull, you can be knocked off your feet and caught by the water. In Hawaii, where they suffered a terrible tsunami in 1946 they say that if you can see the wave it is too late to run. I guess my message is this : if there is a coastal storm, resist the urge to go to the shore and watch the ocean. http://www.drgeorgepc.com/Tsunami1946.html For technical information on the Pacific warning system, just Google "Hawaii tsunami."
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The waves were so...brown. The enormous power of it must have scooped up unimaginable amounts of sand to turn the waves so brown. And the people! There were smiles, I honestly believe, on many of the faces. Our church at large has organized a fund for relief along with man power. This will certainly be a practice among many relief agencies, churches and other organizations.
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my son, Chellis, and I noticed the smiles, too, dub-dub. I hope for them all that they made it through.
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Awesome--literally. Thanks, wow (and Helen). I had thought, since becoming friends with Bingley, that if you could somehow put a long rod through the earth starting here, it would come out somewhere in Indonesia. Our newspaper this morning said that it took 16 minutes for the seismographs in New Madrid, Kentucky, to register the activity that started the tsunamis. Sixteen minutes to get straight through the earth.
"All of our weak-motion stations picked it up, from Grayson, up near Carter Caves, down to Ballard County and Hickman County," said University of Kentucky geophysicist Edward Woolery. "We're pretty much on the opposite side of the globe, so it was pretty much a straight shot through from directly below. It's amazing, and on the seismogram you can see that it goes on for about half an hour ... where just the whole Earth is ringing like a bell." http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2005/01/02ky/B1-byron0102-5551.html
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Stunning. Left of frame 8: one just looks at the young child on a parent's shoulders with a maelstrom breaking upon them... the fate of so many captured in a single image.
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Me too, Maverick, my eyes were immediately drawn to the fleeing man with the child on his back. And praying.
This set of photos will probably tell the story of this humbling tragedy for years to come...
The macabre brown color of the bluegreen sea.
The confused shrieks of fear and laughter of the running crowd.
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I wonder where the waves pass most quickly? I would guess the core since its made nearly entirely of iron.
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No Wordwind, that is illogical. Iron is dense. All waves must move more slowly in density. I am so smart. 
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Oh, well. My instincts were off. Still, it's amazing to consider those waves having moved through the earth in sixteen minutes, even if slowed down to a crawl through the core.
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