Major earthquake in the Carribean

[dandee2]

Just curious. Do ship advise passenger of possible Tsunami at Sea?? I guess there is no danger to ship and mostly on the coast but would like to know.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/09/magnitude-7-point-8-earthquake-strikes-caribbean-tsunami-waves-possible-usgs.html

 

http://www.tsunami.gov/events/PHEB/2018/01/10/18010000/1/WECA41/WECA41.txt

 

 

Tks.

Edited January 10, 2018 by dandee2
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[davekathy]

Thanks for posting the link.

[itzmered]

My sister is on the silhouette right now heading for grand cayman and we join them on the next cruise on Sunday. I hope all is well

 

 

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[Crewjay123@aol.com]

Just got off reflection yesterday morning after stops in grand Cayman and cozumel. Can't help wondering how this would have affected the trip. I've been reading tho we wouldn't have felt it at sea but could have in port. Hope they are all well in the surrounding areas!

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[Keith1010]

They often make an announcement on the ship.

 

The ship is safe when at sea.

 

Keith

[cruise47]

Thanks for posting the two (2) links.

[gerelmx]

Thanks for posting the links

how could a cruise evade these huge waves?

[If only]

We were in the Silhouette, Jan 2015 when we were passing by San Juan around midnight & we had just returned to our cabin on the 10th deck when we felt a large thud underneath like we had hit something. It turned out to an earthquake 126 miles east of San Juan 6.2 quake. When we talked to the Ships Engineer the next day he thought we had blown an engine & it woke up the Captain. They were later advised by Miami that it had been an earthquake, so sometimes there is no warning.

[Alakegirl]

Tsunami have no effect on a ship at sea. They are only a danger to land.

 

If a ship was tied up at a dock and had enough notice, presumably they could leave the pier and head out to sea.

[cb at sea]

If a tsunami passes a ship at sea, you'd never even know it. They only become a problem when approaching a landmass.

[Keith1010]

At sea no issues.

 

The issue would be if the ship is in port and it hits there.

 

That would be an issue for the ship and the passenger's on land.

 

Keith

[marieps]

The advisory was cancelled long ago anyway. No worries. We're on Silhouette Sunday too.

[CCC3]

Thanks, everybody, for the info on tsunamis at sea! We’re leaving Sunday, and the knowledge is very helpful.

 

 

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[Cruise Raider]

We were docked in Acapulco once when we experienced a rather large earthquake. Since we were in port until 11 PM that night, many passengers were out and about. We decided to stay onboard and so did 2 of our table mates. It hit during dinner. Being from California, I said, if I didn't know better, I would say we just had an earthquake. I asked the waiter if he knew but he said it was a large wave. Well, anybody that has been docked in Acapulco knows that there really aren't large waves where the ships dock.

The captain never made any announcements but when the passengers started pouring back to the ship, not long afterwards, they stated it was a pretty sizable earthquake while on land.

[gizmodog]

I am on the eclipse right now and no we were not told about the tsunami warning

 

 

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[Clarea]

Should be no problem while the ship is at sea.

[A Sixth?]

They often make an announcement on the ship.

 

The ship is safe when at sea.

 

Keith

 

The 2010 Haitian earthquake was not mentioned when we were on a cruise south of Puerto Rico

[A Sixth?]

If a tsunami passes a ship at sea, you'd never even know it. They only become a problem when approaching a landmass.

 

Just so everyone knows there’s more than one cause for tsunami

 

The one that the Caribbean worries about is If The south side of Monserrat collapses into the sea. Another is Kick-em Jenny north west of Grenada

 

http://uwiseismic.com/General.aspx?id=53

Edited January 11, 2018 by A Sixth?

[cruisestitch]

Regarding the Eclipse, there was no mention of the tsunami warning because the ship's position was such that it would not have been affected. Then the tsunami warning was cancelled so the whole thing became moot.

[Vacationdreamer<><]

I just got off Crown Princess yesterday morning.

We were in Honduras (Roatan) on Tuesday and Cozumel on Wednesday.

There was no mention in board about the event.

 

I haven’t dug around online yet (connecting flight home cancelled and still not home), but I wondered about Tsunami risk as many ships in Caribbean docked in ports before warning was lifted. How did they know it was safe to do so?

 

 

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