If you're just getting up, there has been a major earthquake in Japan -- Fox News just said it was the biggest quake in Japanese history -- and resulting tsunami. National Weather Service says that locally our coastal areas from are under a tsunami advisory, with the waves expected to hit our local coasts during the 8 AM hour. No evacuations have been announced at this time (4 AM).
Here's the latest advisory as of 6:30 AM:
.. A TSUNAMI ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE IMMEDIATE COAST AND HARBORS SOUTH OF POINT CONCEPTION... BASED ON THE LATEST TELECONFERENCE...THERE HAS BEEN A SLIGHT INCREASE IN MANY OF THE FORECAST TSUNAMI AMPLITUDES ALONG THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COAST. COASTAL AREAS NORTH OF POINT CONCEPTION WILL LIKELY EXPERIENCE A TSUNAMI INUNDATION BETWEEN 3.5 TO 7 FEET. HIGHEST WAVE INUNDATION TO AROUND 7 FEET CAN BE EXPECTED AROUND PORT SAN LUIS. FOR AREAS SOUTH OF POINT CONCEPTION...EXPECTED TSUNAMI WAVE HEIGHTS 2 FEET TO AROUND 3 FEET CAN BE EXPECTED FROM SANTA BARBARA TO LONG BEACH. THE INITIAL WAVE ARRIVAL WILL BEGIN WITHIN 15 MINUTES OF THE ESTIMATED ARRIVAL TIMES LISTED BELOW: PORT SAN LUIS HARBOR...AT 803 AM PST. POINT CONCEPTION.......AT 757 AM PST SANTA BARBARA HARBOR...AT 817 AM PST. RINCON.................AT 828 AM PST SANTA MONICA HARBOR....AT 831 AM PST. SAN PEDRO HARBOR.......AT 832 AM PST. NEW INFORMATION... THE LATEST EXPECTED TSUNAMI WAVE HEIGHT AMPLITUDES... MORRO BAY...............3.9 FT PORT SAN LUIS HARBOR....7.1 FT PISMO BEACH.............2.4 FT SANTA MARIA.............3.3 FT SANTA BARBARA...........1.6 FT CARPINTERIA.............1.6 FT VENTURA.................2.9 FT MALIBU..................1.2 FT SANTA MONICA............2.8 FT REDONDO BEACH...........2.1 FT SAN PEDRO HARBOR........1.3 FT HUNTINGTON BEACH........2.3 FT THE TSUNAMI IS A RESULT OF A LARGE EARTHQUAKE WITH A PRELIMINARY MAGNITUDE OF 8.9 ON THE RICHTER SCALE THAT OCCURRED AT 945 PM PST LAST EVENING. THE EARTHQUAKE LOCATION WAS JUST OFFSHORE OF JAPAN.
