Tsunami

RTL and I have lived out here on the west coast a few months shy of two years. We have yet to feel an earthquake. Considering that there are small earthquakes all the time around here, I may be a little disappointed.

Since RTL and I rarely watch live television anymore (not since Tiva came into our lives), we didn't know about the Tsunami warning until RTL caught the word "tsunami" as she was fast forwarding through commercials. Luckily she was watching a program that was currently on, just 20 minutes ahead in real time, and re-winded to get the details.
A real live Tsunami warning! We were a bit freaked considering that the possible hit time was about 5 minutes away. Then decided that since both animals were sprawled out asleep on the floor that everything must be OK. Then confirmed that feeling with a quick internet check and found that the West Coast & Alaska Tsunami Warning Center had canceled the warning. Whew!

Here are the details:

The 7.0-magnitude quake struck at around 7:50 p.m. Tuesday, 300 miles northwest of San Francisco and about 90 miles southwest of the coastal community of Crescent City, where a 1964 tsunami killed 11 people, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

A tsunami warning was briefly in effect from the California-Mexico border north to Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

RTL wants to call her dad and freak him out. I've told her no, but hopefully she'll come to her senses before doing something that rash.
And for anybody else who worries like him, EVERYTHING is fine here, really, I mean it, you don't have to freak out or anything.
I also think that we are now far enough from the coast line that we probably would have had water damage, but not more than that.

My side comment to all of this is that maybe sometimes live television is a good thing. And yes, I know it is TivO, but we named ours.