Is this Tsunami picture real?

[sundevil777 94]

I received this from a friend, it looks fake to me.

Any info?

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[ahegeman 0]

Not real.

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[bigway 4]

it looks like the wave from 'the day after tomorrow

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[AggieDave 6]

Snopes says no.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/tsunami/tsunami2.asp

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[sundevil777 94]

Thanks, enough said.

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[crotalus01 0]

its fake. the waves in a tsunami are never that close together due to the sheer volume of water involved. that photo shows the first wave hitting followed immediately by a second, much higher wave. it is generally accepted by tsunami specialists that the 3rd wave is the largest, and usually hits 3 to 8 minutes behind the 2nd wave (3 to 8 minutes between waves in a tsunami is the generally accepted timeframe).

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[AggieDave 6]

And Snopes shows the original pic, a picture of the coastline of Chili.

They drive on the left in Thailand as well...

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[CrazyIvan 0]

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And Snopes shows the original pic, a picture of the coastline of Chili.

They drive on the left in Thailand as well...

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[AggieDave 6]

Huh...that's what I get for writting that post right before dinner.

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[blondeflyer7 0]

Looks fake to me

[BillyVance 34]

Yeah, it's fake. Besides, the highest wave witnessed was about 30 feet high along the coast of Sumatra. The one show in this picture looks well over 100 feet... You'll only see waves that high if a big enough meteorite strikes somewhere in the middle of an ocean.

Then again, there have been cyclones that struck India (in the Indian Ocean, hurricanes are called cyclones), that brought waves of at least 50 feet... Hasn't happened in a long time though.

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[champu 1]

pretty clearly fake....

Here are before (left) and after (right) satellite images of Aceh province, Indonesia.

/eta: a few interesting tidbits...

The magnitude 9.0 earthquake that triggered the tsunamis shifted the Earth's axis of rotation by 8cm, and shortened the length of a day by .0001 seconds

[eJAKAL 0]

Actually, a tsunami's period can range from 3 to 90 minutes.

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its fake. the waves in a tsunami are never that close together due to the sheer volume of water involved. that photo shows the first wave hitting followed immediately by a second, much higher wave. it is generally accepted by tsunami specialists that the 3rd wave is the largest, and usually hits 3 to 8 minutes behind the 2nd wave (3 to 8 minutes between waves in a tsunami is the generally accepted timeframe).

[penniless 0]

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pretty clearly fake....

Here are before (left) and after (right) satellite images of Aceh province, Indonesia.

/eta: a few interesting tidbits...

The magnitude 9.0 earthquake that triggered the tsunamis shifted the Earth's axis of rotation by 8cm, and shortened the length of a day by .0001 seconds

Really? Do you have a reliable source for that? Conservation of angular momentum would imply that a shift of rotation axis can only be caused by an external influence.

[Stumpy 256]

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Yeah, it's fake. Besides, the highest wave witnessed was about 30 feet high along the coast of Sumatra.

Hmmm - not entirely sure this is true. You seen any film of tow-in surfing recently? If you want to see some incredible stuff - whatch billabong oddysey. I reckon the waves those guys are on are at least 30 feet.

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[jumper03 0]

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/eta: a few interesting tidbits...

The magnitude 9.0 earthquake that triggered the tsunamis shifted the Earth's axis of rotation by 8cm, and shortened the length of a day by .0001 seconds

Not sure about this. An article in last weeks EOS stated that while earthquakes do shift the rotation axix and can change LOD, the shifts that would have been induced would have been too small to measure. However, the mainstream media glossed over that point....

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[champu 1]

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Really? Do you have a reliable source for that? Conservation of angular momentum would imply that a shift of rotation axis can only be caused by an external influence.

That's why there was a shift of the axis and a change in the rotational period. Angular momentum is still conserved.

My source is Aviation Week & Space Technology, it's in print or I'd post a link. They site NASA for the calculations. NASA uses spacecraft tracking stations all over the globe, and their station in Singapore evidently moved a considerable amount to the west.

[Billy 0]

Saw something on the Science channel about the shift... it dropped enough mass closer to the axis to speed up rotation a smidge for a while...

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[freakbrother 0]

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Really? Do you have a reliable source for that? Conservation of angular momentum would imply that a shift of rotation axis can only be caused by an external influence.

That's why there was a shift of the axis and a change in the rotational period. Angular momentum is still conserved.

My source is Aviation Week & Space Technology, it's in print or I'd post a link. They site NASA for the calculations. NASA uses spacecraft tracking stations all over the globe, and their station in Singapore evidently moved a considerable amount to the west.

How is "rotation axis" defined? Moved with respect to what? Once influences of the Sun and Moon's gravity are factored out, the rotation axis must pass through the Earth's center of mass. Did the center of mass shift 8cm? With respect to what?

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And Snopes shows the original pic, a picture of the coastline of Chili.

They drive on the left in Thailand as well...

Dude, Chili is food, Chile it's a country.

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[champu 1]

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How is "rotation axis" defined? Moved with respect to what? Once influences of the Sun and Moon's gravity are factored out, the rotation axis must pass through the Earth's center of mass. Did the center of mass shift 8cm? With respect to what?

My understanding isn't perfect, perhaps someone else will chime in, but here's my take on it. It has to do with Chandler Wobble.

Essentially if you have a big spherical thing and you're spinning it, its net rotation is going to be slower the more wobble it has. This is because wobble increases the body's effective moment of inertia. If you have a dramatic geological event, you can shift the axis of rotation such that wobble is reduced, thereby decreasing the effective moment of inertia.

As you mentioned before, without help from the outside, you can't change angular momentum, so a reduction in moment of inertia means faster rotation.

Now, what exactly does an "8cm shift in the axis of rotation mean"? Possibly something to do with the diameter of the Chandler Wobble, but I can't say for sure.