7.9 Quake off Tonga
 

I'm glad the Cricket is back home.

That's funny, I was wishing the cricket was there. I saw photos of the underwater volcano erupting thru the ocean surface and it was spectacular, and I wanted our tropical south seas explorer to see it with his own eyes.




and then, yeah, paddle very quickly in the opposite direction.

I guess I was thinking more along the lines of 2004

But I guess as long as we could at least get his camera back......

The closest webcam I could find is on Fiji. So far it looks calm.

You would want to paddle towards the tsunami, I'm thinking. Paddle with it and you're surfing and heading for buildings.

Paddle into it and you might be able to get behind it.

This is probably covered in one of those how to survive the unsurvivable books. Wonder if I'm right.

I thought the pictures of the balck smoke spewing from the ocean were amazing to look at. A true marvel for my mind!

You want to find the deepest water you can get to.

The Cricket's happy that there doesn't seem to be a tsunami on its way to Hawai'i.

Here is one site with video of the underwater volcano.

yeah, but now swimming with sharks seems so puny. :p




Ok, so what I don't get is .... if this underwater volcano spawns a tsunami, how come all the people photographing it from a few miles away are safe?