Monster Quake in Japan, Tsunami Warnings for Pacific Ocean Coasts

Seen  at Watts Up With That:

Tsunami Warning for the entire Pacific basin coastline including California, impact at 7-8 AM local time e.g. San Francisco.

UPDATE: Japanese media reporting the city of Kurihara has been completely destroyed, population 77,000+

UPDATE: One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded. Hawaii under Tsunami Warning. Pacific Tsunami Warning Center Updates / Warning Website Link. Aftershocks continuing.

Tsunami Watch issued for California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Canada…

UPDATE: Here’s a screencap from live streaming from Japan via news helicopter showing the Tsunami as it strike s the north coast:

UPDATE: Now that I'm awake, I fixed the misspelling in the title...

Georgia will call her sister who lives on the coast in Northern Calif to make sure they're aware of it.

UPDATE:


UPDATE: A whole bunch of pictures here.

UPDATE:  Watch the progress of the Pacific Ocean tsunamis here.

UPDATE: The first strike of the  tsunami recorded at St. Paul Island in the Bering Sea on Extra Tropical Surge Site 





UPDATE: 1318 EST  Looks like its just now hitting Northern California:  North Spit, California:










UPDATE:  It looks like Port Orford, Oregon took a 5 ft wave:

Time lapse of tidal wave at Crescent City, Calif: