Almost immediately following a 6.9 magnitude earthquake off the Japanese island of Kyushu about a half-hour ago, the US Tsunami Warning Center on Monday issued a bulletin stating “There is no tsunami danger for the US West Coast, British Columbia, or Alaska. Based on earthquake information and historic tsunami records, the earthquake is not expected to generate a tsunami.”
Which is great news for folks in the Los Angeles area, who can now say “Well at least there probably won’t be a massive tsunami crashing into the coastline today. Still pretty early in the day though.”