Tsunami waves reach West Coast as National Weather Service urges: ?Move off the beach?
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Tsunami waves reached the California and Oregon coastlines, killing at least one person and damaging marinas.Any eruption-driven waves reaching the West Coast on Saturday were not expected to be as strong, but meteorologists said they could still generate life-threatening conditions.Brian Garcia, a Weather Service meteorologist based in the San Francisco Bay area, said the community saw waves reach “king-tide-type heights,” referring to extra-high tides usually spurred by astronomical alignments. Tonga accesses its Internet via a cable from Fiji that connects onto the region’s Southern Cross cable.Meteorologists in the United States expressed concern about the timing of the tsunami waves, noting that given the early hour of the advisory, some of those who live near the coast might have headed for a walk along the beach unaware of the stronger waves.“It’s definitely not just any morning on the beaches along the Oregon and Washington coastline,” said Colby Neuman, a Weather Service meteorologist based in Portland.A 1-to-3-foot rise in wave heights could be enough to knock beachgoers off their feet and pull them into the ocean, he said, adding that the cold water in the Pacific Northwest means a risk of hypothermia for anyone in the water.
As said here by Christine Armario, Timothy Bella, Ellen Francis