still in transit, but trying to solve problems

well, yesterday i was quite sea sick. i heard my noisy time in the
head registered a 9 on the noise scale... ahh, the porcelain goddess.
i am feeling much better after having stayed in my berth horizontally
for all day.

the coring techs left some back-up equipment at osu. we were gonna
meet a ship at the buoy off newport, but the tsunami warning systems
are still screwed up. the hawaii center and the alaska center gave
conflicting reports, so the people in newport were not able to leave
port to deliver the equip to us. and,,, the person in charge of this
ship would not give permission to enter the harbor as they were not
very well informed about the tsunami hazard. it passed beneath us a
couple hours ago. of course, the best place to be is in a ship at sea.
the tsunami was probably around 5-20 cm peak to trough.

it will be interesting to see what panic ensued back at humboldt. it
reminded me of the strike-slip earthquake a couple yrs back (in the
Gorda plate). i noticed it was in the upper 6's and a strike slip
event, so i told my neighbors there was no reason to evacuate manila.
apparently, people drove all the way up fickle hill. the likelihood of
a damaging tsunami from that event was basically nill, yet the media
really hyped it up. of course, we found out how poorly coordinated the
tsunami hazard mitigation officials were during that event. the news
stations (radio and tv) did not have a unified message and there was
much confusion. i even spoke with some geologists who thought there
was potential for a damaging tsunami. i did get some great pics of the
sunset at the beach that night, right around the travel time for the
tsunami arrival in manila. hahaha

ok, back to work...