Updated with more information, there won't be a tsunami (probably) <a href="http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/events/PAAQ/2013/05/24/mnafyn/2/WEAK53/WEAK53.txt" rel="nofollow">http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/events/PAAQ/2013/05/24/mnafyn/2/W...</a>
Why is this still all-caps - in 2013? It's not like there are any teletype lines left that cannot process lower case.<p>Is this some kind of tradition or does NOAA still use EBCDIC mainframes?
Here's a map and more info: <a href="http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/?p=PAAQ/2013/05/24/mnafyn/2/WEAK53" rel="nofollow">http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/?p=PAAQ/2013/05/24/mnafyn/2/WEAK5...</a><p>Currently (6:51 UTC), no warnings.
We felt a small earthquake in Davis, CA earlier tonight. Active day for our earth! I quite like earthly events like this — they really make one realize how minuscule we are.
I imagine NOAA and NWS bulletins are in all caps for compatibility with ancient systems, but I still have to wonder if they'll ever see a reason to start using lowercase letters.
No tsunami warning for Japan as of writing:<p><a href="http://www3.nhk.or.jp/sokuho/tsunami/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www3.nhk.or.jp/sokuho/tsunami/index.html</a>
it's just past midnight here in socal. I live in Long Beach, CA - few miles from the pacific ocean. I'm closely watching <a href="http://ptwc.weather.gov/" rel="nofollow">http://ptwc.weather.gov/</a> . No warning as of this writing.
Is it crazy to think that there may be a pattern for all these strong earthquakes in the past few years since the Haiti one, and that they may be linked?