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Comment by epicureanideal | Hacker News Reader

Any idea how far it would reach, what cities would actually be affected?

Google maps has this neat map : https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4392216,-123.0674806,6z/data...

The boundaries on this look very odd to me. I wonder what kind of model and terrain resolution they use for this forecast.

It seems very odd how some quite low lying shore areas in the SF Bay are excluded while other areas are painted over very high elevations including the SF peninsula and Oakland/Berkeley hills.

For the East Bay it looks like they drew a very rough outline of the contour of the hills and then pushed it an extra half mile or so inland, which results in some clearly safe spots landing inside the line.

The SF bay and Santa Cruz are on the south end of the effected area. On past occasions like this, waves have washed over low beaches and lagoons, but not come remotely close to overtopping the coastal terrace cliffs.

> Estimated tsunami start times for selected sites are;

Fort Bragg California 1110 AM.PST. December 5.

Crescent City California 1120 AM.PST. December 5.

Port Orford Oregon 1120 AM.PST. December 5.

Brookings Oregon 1125 AM.PST. December 5.

Charleston Oregon 1140 AM.PST. December 5.

San Francisco California 1210 PM.PST. December 5.

The tsunami warning will remain in effect until further notice. Refer to the internet site tsunami.gov for more information.

https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&ww...

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