Storm Surge - State of Hawaii, [Statewide]

Big waves hit Hawaiian Islands' north shores, California

Caleb Jones | Posted: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 10:35 pm

A surfer watches as a wave breaks at Waimea Bay Beach Park on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015. The north shores of all the Hawaiian Islands were under a high surf warning on Wednesday, with forecasters expecting 25- to 30-foot waves to mark the start of Hawaii's big-wave season. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)

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Storm Surge

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State of Hawaii, [Statewide]

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Storm Surge in USA on Thursday, 29 October, 2015 at 04:29 (04:29 AM) UTC.

Description The north shores of all of the Hawaiian Islands are under a high surf warning, and forecasters expect 25- to 30-foot waves, marking the start of Hawaii's big-wave season. The swells hitting both Hawaii and California are probably connected to the same low-pressure weather system in the Pacific Ocean, said Derek Wroe, meteorologist with the National Weather Service. "We get our biggest waves in the wintertime, and we're leading up to that," Wroe said. Officials on Hawaii's Big Island closed six beaches because of dangerous surf conditions, and one beach on Maui was closed after waves flooded the parking lot. Wroe warned spectators to keep a distance from the waves because what seems safe could become deadly in a short time. "There's a whole host of dangers that come with these waves," he said. On Oahu, a man believed to be in his 50s died late Tuesday when he and two other fishermen were apparently swept out to sea by a large wave, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported.

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SFGATE

An earthmover creates a sand berm between oceanfront homes and the water in Seal Beach, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015. There have been no reports so far of coastal flooding as high tides and an arriving swell from a Pacific storm produced big surf along the central and Southern California coast. Waves between 3 and 6 feet pounded some areas where morning high tides were about 7 feet on Wednesday, National Weather Service forecaster Scott Sukop said.

HONOLULU (AP) — The latest on the big surf that's hitting Hawaii and California (all times local):
10:45 a.m.
The north shores of all of the Hawaiian Islands are under a high surf warning, and forecasters expect 25- to 30-foot waves.
Meteorologist Derek Wroe of the National Weather Service says it's the start of Hawaii's big-wave season.
He says the swells hitting both Hawaii and California are probably connected to the same low-pressure weather system in the Pacific Ocean.


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Astronomers have observed a unique and baffling object in the asteroid belt that looks like a rotating lawn sprinkler or badminton shuttlecock.

The Daily Galaxy

"Strange, Baffling Object" Observed by Hubble Astronomers in Asteroid Belt

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed a unique and baffling object in the asteroid belt that looks like a rotating lawn sprinkler or badminton shuttlecock. While this object is on an asteroid-like orbit, it looks like a comet, and is sending out tails of dust into space.

"We were literally dumbfounded when we saw it," said lead investigator David Jewitt of the University of California at Los Angeles, USA. "Even more amazingly, its tail structures change dramatically in just 13 days as it belches out dust. That also caught us by surprise. It's hard to believe we're looking at an asteroid."
Normal asteroids appear as tiny points of light. But this asteroid, designated P/2013 P5, has six comet-like tails of dust radiating from it like the spokes on a wheel. It was first spotted in August of this year as an unusually fuzzy-looking object by astronomers using the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii.


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Earth's Biggest Volcano Discovered Beneath The Pacific Ocean

1OneMinuteNews

Published on Sep 6, 2013

Scientists say they've discovered the earth's largest volcano. At 400 miles wide, 2.5 miles tall Tamu Massif is not only 60 times larger than Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano, it's possibly the second largest volcano in the solar system.
Sources:
Nature.com - http://bit.ly/1ad5qfo
Fox News - http://fxn.ws/1dZYTK2
Nature Geoscience Journal - http://bit.ly/18AwGSZ
Mars Volcano Image: NASA/MOLA Science Team/ O. de Goursac, Adrian Lark


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Volcano the size of Oregon discovered beneath the Pacific Ocean (but luckily it's extinct)

• The 400-mile wide Tamu Massif volcano sits 1,000 miles east of Japan

• It was originally believed to be part of the Shatsky Rise plate

• Rock samples suggest it formed around 140 million years ago

• Tamu Massif is thought to be wider than Mar's Olympus Mons volcano
  

By Victoria Woollaston
PUBLISHED: 05:47 EST, 6 September 2013 | UPDATED: 09:42 EST, 6 September 2013

A giant volcano that covers the same area as the whole of the UK has been discovered buried deep beneath the Pacific Ocean.

Tamu Massif sits 1,000 miles east of Japan, along the Shatsky Rise plate, its tip is 6,500 feet below the ocean surface and it stretches around 400 miles wide.

After studying rock samples, scientists from the University of Houston believe the behemoth is the volcano that caused the underwater Shatsky Rise mountain range to form between 130 and 145 million years ago and may be the largest volcano in the solar system - even wider than the giant Olympus Mons volcano on Mars.

The Tamu Massif volcano sits under the Pacific along the Shatsky Rise plate. Scientists from the University of Houston made the discovery, which remained hidden because Tamu Massif sits 6,500 feet below the surface. Scientists used core samples, radars and scans, pictured, to map the volcano's size

Tamu Massif is the largest feature of the Shatsky Rise mountain range, marked by A on this map, situated around 1,000 miles east of Japan. The range was formed following the eruption of the Tamu Massif volcano between 130 and 145 million years ago

HOW BIG IS THE TAMU MASSIF?

Tamu Massif covers an area of about 120,000 square miles - an area roughly equivalent to the British Isles.

It is 400 miles wide and its tip sits 6,500 feet below the ocean's surface.

Tamu Massif is also thought to sit in water around four miles deep.

The largest volcano on Earth is Hawaii’s Mauna Loa that covers approximately 2,000 square miles - just two per cent of the size of Tamu Massif.

The Olympus Mons volcano on Mars isn't as wide as Tamu Massif -  stretching 370 miles across -  but it's overall mass is approximately 25 per cent larger than Tamu Massif.
Tamu Massif is around 145 million years old but 'became inactive within a few million years after it was formed'.

William Sager, a professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the university, began studying the volcano 20 years ago.
Tamu Massif is the largest feature of the Shatsky Rise, which was formed following the eruption of several underwater volcanoes.
Until now, scientists were unsure whether Tamu Massif was a single volcano, or was made up of multiple eruption points.

The team of researchers studied core samples, radars and data collected from the region to confirm that the huge mass of basalt that makes up the volcano erupted from a single source near the centre.
Sager said: 'Tamu Massif is the biggest single shield volcano ever discovered on Earth.

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