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Originally Posted by mylittledemon
Yeah I didnt realize there need be a warning for California. There was one here in NZ (much closer) and the wave was... I dunno 2 feet?
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There was a slightly over 1-foot-amplitude swell here in Monterey Bay measured on the tide gauges. But I would not want to have been anywhere near the beach at the time, let alone in the water close to shore.
A tsunami isn't a typical wind-driven wave. A 1-foot surf wave is fun to frolic in. A 1-foot tsunami is not. Surfers ride the curls on 15-foot surf waves all the time. But a tsunami with a 15-foot runup (& no back end) just penetrated almost a mile inland in Samoa & killed more than 100 people.