Hello fellow divers, hello to the east of North America.
According to this article Flutwelle an Ostküste der USA: Meteo-Tsunami im Atlantik - SPIEGEL ONLINE (unfortunately I couldn´t find any english sources) there has been a socalled Meteo-Tsunami in the north Atlantic on June 13th. Ther article also says the Tsunami might have been caused by a various factors involving a storm moving east over the Atlantic ocean. Let´s leave the theories aside ... it also says divers have been pulled away from the shore while the water was moving back.
Any witnesses here?
---------- Post added July 2nd, 2013 at 03:14 PM ----------
Here´s the google translation for those being too lazy for copy-paste even
I don´t want to blue-pencil this, as from what I´ve just read briefly scanning the text it should be understandable just fine what the original article says ...
Only the sea withdrew surprising, then came the foaming flood: A mysterious tsunami flooded on more than a thousand kilometers of beaches on the east coast of the USA. Scientists puzzle over the cause.
Hamburg - An amazing surge on the east coast of the United States stunned scientists. On the afternoon of 13 June, they have flooded beaches from Massachusetts to North Carolina, reported the tsunami warning center. The analysis of data has only now revealed that 30 buoys were recorded in quick succession increased water level in very different marine regions - the wave front would therefore have been at least one thousand kilometers wide. Now scientists have puzzled over what caused it.
Brian Coen was fishing in the Barnegat Bay in New Jersey. At half past three pm, the clock running tide suddenly have strengthened considerably, Coen reports to the U.S. Weather Service. The strong current had pulled into the open sea divers. Hastily he had untied his boat so it does not capsized. Two minutes later, the sea had withdrawn so far that rocks were exposed at the base, which are usually flooded.
Then came the wave: a two-meter high, had been rolled foaming tide suddenly on him, reports Brian Coen. The flow had washed it reversed, and the divers back to the coast. Three walkers were knocked over by the wave, two of them were injured. For several minutes the flood had poured down on the beach. Major damage was not known.
Unusual storm
The event has surprised the Coast Guard. Earthquake that can trigger tsunamis, had not been registered. The flood came so to speak, out of nowhere. "The search for the cause is still under way," shares the Tsunami Warning Center of the U.S. Weather Service of NOAA.
Two options could be envisaged: either have an underwater avalanche or a rare weather event kicked off the shaft. To thousands of meters long steep cliffs on the sea floor in the western Atlantic large masses of sand can slip into the depths. Often, however, earthquake sensors then measure small vibrations.
Probably if it were more of a rare meteorological tsunami, says NOAA. On 13 June had an unusually wide storm front crossed the Atlantic from west to east, called a derecho. The air pressure had fluctuated, violent gusts shot over the ocean. Have put the Atlantic to boil the pulse, the NOAA experts believe - is circular waves spread out.
Also in the Mediterranean
How exactly vortices cause tidal waves, is still unclear. It is clear that the sea has to great depths vibrate at high flow to flush significant amounts of water to the coasts. Meet vibrating air masses on sea waves at a similar rate, it could resonate, my researcher. The harmony would last long enough to air and water could swaying, so that a long wave.
Not their height, but their length makes tsunamis dangerous - hundreds of kilometers wavelength ensures that large amounts of water flow. In narrow, shallow bays they are upset and pile up. So it was no wonder that Brian Coen was hit in the Barnegat Bay from the water masses especially.
The mysterious Atlantic wave lines up accordingly in the still rather short list of meteorological tsunamis - researchers know the phenomenon only in recent years. The last known case occurred two years ago in England. Also in the Mediterranean, from about Menorca, Croatia and the Adriatic meteorological tsunamis were reported. The phenomenon has spread worldwide: New Zealand, Japan, China and Finland interpret some flooding now than Meteo tsunamis.
According to this article Flutwelle an Ostküste der USA: Meteo-Tsunami im Atlantik - SPIEGEL ONLINE (unfortunately I couldn´t find any english sources) there has been a socalled Meteo-Tsunami in the north Atlantic on June 13th. Ther article also says the Tsunami might have been caused by a various factors involving a storm moving east over the Atlantic ocean. Let´s leave the theories aside ... it also says divers have been pulled away from the shore while the water was moving back.
Any witnesses here?
---------- Post added July 2nd, 2013 at 03:14 PM ----------
Here´s the google translation for those being too lazy for copy-paste even
I don´t want to blue-pencil this, as from what I´ve just read briefly scanning the text it should be understandable just fine what the original article says ... Only the sea withdrew surprising, then came the foaming flood: A mysterious tsunami flooded on more than a thousand kilometers of beaches on the east coast of the USA. Scientists puzzle over the cause.
Hamburg - An amazing surge on the east coast of the United States stunned scientists. On the afternoon of 13 June, they have flooded beaches from Massachusetts to North Carolina, reported the tsunami warning center. The analysis of data has only now revealed that 30 buoys were recorded in quick succession increased water level in very different marine regions - the wave front would therefore have been at least one thousand kilometers wide. Now scientists have puzzled over what caused it.
Brian Coen was fishing in the Barnegat Bay in New Jersey. At half past three pm, the clock running tide suddenly have strengthened considerably, Coen reports to the U.S. Weather Service. The strong current had pulled into the open sea divers. Hastily he had untied his boat so it does not capsized. Two minutes later, the sea had withdrawn so far that rocks were exposed at the base, which are usually flooded.
Then came the wave: a two-meter high, had been rolled foaming tide suddenly on him, reports Brian Coen. The flow had washed it reversed, and the divers back to the coast. Three walkers were knocked over by the wave, two of them were injured. For several minutes the flood had poured down on the beach. Major damage was not known.
Unusual storm
The event has surprised the Coast Guard. Earthquake that can trigger tsunamis, had not been registered. The flood came so to speak, out of nowhere. "The search for the cause is still under way," shares the Tsunami Warning Center of the U.S. Weather Service of NOAA.
Two options could be envisaged: either have an underwater avalanche or a rare weather event kicked off the shaft. To thousands of meters long steep cliffs on the sea floor in the western Atlantic large masses of sand can slip into the depths. Often, however, earthquake sensors then measure small vibrations.
Probably if it were more of a rare meteorological tsunami, says NOAA. On 13 June had an unusually wide storm front crossed the Atlantic from west to east, called a derecho. The air pressure had fluctuated, violent gusts shot over the ocean. Have put the Atlantic to boil the pulse, the NOAA experts believe - is circular waves spread out.
Also in the Mediterranean
How exactly vortices cause tidal waves, is still unclear. It is clear that the sea has to great depths vibrate at high flow to flush significant amounts of water to the coasts. Meet vibrating air masses on sea waves at a similar rate, it could resonate, my researcher. The harmony would last long enough to air and water could swaying, so that a long wave.
Not their height, but their length makes tsunamis dangerous - hundreds of kilometers wavelength ensures that large amounts of water flow. In narrow, shallow bays they are upset and pile up. So it was no wonder that Brian Coen was hit in the Barnegat Bay from the water masses especially.
The mysterious Atlantic wave lines up accordingly in the still rather short list of meteorological tsunamis - researchers know the phenomenon only in recent years. The last known case occurred two years ago in England. Also in the Mediterranean, from about Menorca, Croatia and the Adriatic meteorological tsunamis were reported. The phenomenon has spread worldwide: New Zealand, Japan, China and Finland interpret some flooding now than Meteo tsunamis.
