[David]

Such stupidity, this hyperfocus on the exact "time the wave hits." On several of the TV news channels, they were actually running a clock on the screen with a countdown! Tsunamis are wave trains: waves will roll in & out for hours, & the most damaging waves are usually not the very first. So counting down like this is mostly pretty asinine. It gives locals the impression that the danger has passed once the stopwatch hits zero.

Also asinine, although I understand what drives it, is the emphasis on wave height.

Let's see whether this event focuses attention on the Cascadia Subduction Zone. For the population all up & down the shoreline of the western U.S., it's Cascadia that's the wild card.